Review IT Weekly (10.08 – 16.08.2020)Gennady Belas
Distribution
Treolan is expanding cooperation with the French vendor, producing equipment for electrical engineering and automation – Schneider Electric. From August 1 distributor has opened a delivery of products
manufacturer in the areas of “Housing”, “Low voltage” “Digital energy” and “Industry”.
The company Treolan has partnered with Schneider Electric since 2006, and this is supplied in the affiliate channel only device guaranteed and uninterrupted power supply (UPS) under the brand APC.
In the first stage, the cooperation will be the nature of the project. In the future, Treolan will organize and maintain the warehouse equipment and able to serve small-scale and retail orders
the above-mentioned areas.
“Marvel-Distribution” will develop the it industry in nine countries in the status of the distributor of Oracle
“Marvel-Distribution” has signed an agreement with Oracle on the expansion of expertise and the promotion of vendor solutions in seven new countries: Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and
Turkmenistan. Besides, marvel already is the official distributor of Oracle in Russia and Kazakhstan.
“Marvel-Distribution” will provide partners in new countries the full range of support and necessary expertise as the official distributor of Oracle for implementation of projects for all
grocery directions of the vendor. The partners in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan will be able to obtain professional advice on the introduction and transition to
upgraded partner program Oracle PartnerNetwork 2020 based on local features for building and business development in a specific region, as well as marketing and training
materials and practical trainings.
From June to MERLION became available the SIM card of the Megaphone with the technology of self-registration. Activate the SIM card yourself using a mobile application of the company, including
authorization via the portal of public services. Such activation will take no more than 5-10 minutes. The application allows you to recognize the face of the customer to verify his / her passport photo and automatically fill in electronic
contract. When registering, the subscriber can choose any of the tariffs. The user can choose any tariff plan.
In Baku has opened an office Marvel-Azerbaijan
The establishment of its own office and warehouse in Baku was part of the strategy of consistent development of international business in countries where there is high activity IT market.
Marvel-Azerbaijan follows the model of the parent company has its retail and project distribution. In Azerbaijan, marvel is promoting such brands as Accesstyle, Avaya, F+, Fortinet,
Genius, HDS, Hiper, Huawei, ASUS, Itel, Juniper, Marshall, Oracle, and Ruckus Networks (Commscope), Tecno, VMware, etc.
Own information technology and developments in Azerbaijan are almost there, what local companies and government agencies actively encourage IT-the market is stable procurement of modern products
and solutions from leading manufacturers. In addition, commitment to the digitalization of the economy opens up opportunities for the development of the distribution business in Azerbaijan.
Vendors
Schneider Electric, announced that it has won first place in the top 15 supply chains in Europe in the ranking by Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 2020…
Philips has expanded its portfolio of solutions for remote communication and distance learning of specialists in the field of healthcare with the acquisition of IIT (Innovative Imaging Technologies
Inc.), Creator IT platform Reacts. The company’s head office is located in Montreal (Canada), will be the competence Center of Philips for collaboration in the field of digital health.
Reacts is a platform for professional cooperation in the medical community. The solution gives healthcare workers access to interactive virtual instruments such as
video conferencing. Thanks to it the specialists can conduct remote consultations, send secure messages, implement a telemedicine support diagnostic studies and
remote control procedures. Currently, the platform is used in over 80 countries of the world as in the practice of physicians and in medical education.
New products
Acer presented on the Russian market three game models of the line Nitro.
The new 17.3-inch and two 15.6-inch laptop — stylish design, screen refresh rate up to 144 Hz, response time to 3 MS and the hardware, including NVIDIA
GeForce RTX 2060. For sale in Russia all three versions Nitro 5 will be available in the third quarter.
“Maiofis” Russian manufacturer of office software announced the launch of a trial versions of products, “Maiofis Private cloud” and “Maiofis Standard”. Download Maiofis and to apply for connection
to preview stand on the site of the company.
A joint venture of VTB and Rostelecom implements a universal platform geoanalitica
The company “big data Platform”, created in the spring of 2020, the Bank VTB and Rostelecom, has developed and is implementing a universal geoplatform based on analysis of anonymized data using
method for automatic machine learning (ML Auto). It enables you to predict demand, customer flows and other factors in specific locations for making decisions about the location of the outlet,
offices, advertising objects, as well as to assess the investment attractiveness of buildings and land.
Team Parallels has introduced Parallels Desktop 16,
includes support for macOS Big Sur, applications with 3D features on the base Metal, the possibility of OS updates, new features integration Mac and Windows is to fully recreate the environment
Windows on the Mac platform.
Softline has launched its own platform to manage clouds
Softline develops its own service Softline Maestro based on the services cloud providers. The solution allows customers to independently manage an arbitrary set of clouds
in one window, consolidate billing, increase transparency of budget monitoring and automated provisioning.
Softline Maestro allows you to create a corporate cloud self-service portal to solve it tasks in a simplified interface. The platform monitors compliance with safety requirements and
informs about suspicious activity.
Softline has launched its own platform to manage clouds
Softline develops its own service Softline Maestro based on the services of the largest cloud providers. The solution allows customers to implement self-management
an arbitrary set of clouds in one window, consolidate billing, increase transparency of budget monitoring and automated provisioning. Softline Maestro allows you to create a corporate
the clouds self-service portal to solve it tasks in a simplified interface. The platform monitors compliance with security requirements and informs about suspicious activity.
The results of the activities
“The messenger”: on the North-West laptop sales grew 43% in the first half of 2020
According to Svyaznoy, from January to June of 2020 the North-West region gained 190 thousand devices to 8.1 billion rubles. Thus, sales in the notebook market in the region
increased relative to last year’s results, in quantitative terms, by 43% and in value by 54%. The average price amounted to 43.3 thousand rubles, which is 8% higher than a year earlier.
Information security
According to the survey “Kaspersky Lab”, the average amount of damage
fraud, posing as employees of banking organizations, is five thousand roubles. This was stated by the expert of the company.
According to the survey, in the first half of 2020 with the attackers, acting on behalf of the banks, at least once faced more than half of Russians (58%). In the vast
most cases (over 90%) we are talking about telephone fraud, and calls come in mostly during working hours — Monday to Thursday, from 11 to 18 hours.
The attackers are seriously preparing for such calls, and actively use social engineering methods. So, in 42% of cases they completely called the correct name, surname and patronymic someone
called. The most common legends was the need to confirm the data (72%), the blocking message card (58%) and the supply of credit (57%).
Data centers
Service provider M1Cloud company Stack Group has introduced a service
by creating a hybrid it infrastructure for medium and large enterprises with defining the right balance between private infrastructure and the cloud using the calculation of the total
cost of ownership of computing resources.
Hybrid Infrastructure from M1Cloud allows you to balance the management of virtual machines and its own infrastructure for the transfer is not only secondary IT environments, but also productive, which
responsible for critical business processes. Automate’s built-in service gives you the ability to customize the use of computing resources during peak loads and access rights for
the security of your data.
Finance
Russian Standard has launched for the customers of the Bank acquiring the opportunity to take in the online stores payment in dollars and euros…
“Marvel-Distribution” is among the five largest IT companies in Russia
“Marvel-Distribution” has ranked fifth in revenue among Russian IT companies in two industry rankings, compiled by the portal TAdviser and CNews.
Total revenue “marvel” by the end of 2019 reached 97,5 billion roubles. In comparison with indicators of 2018, the company showed a growth of 13.9%. Authors of ratings in their
the preparation used different methods of calculation, but in both cases, the main evaluation criterion was revenue, and this indicator “marvel-Distribution” consistently ranks among
the largest in Russia.
It should be noted that marvel is a leader in ratings on the effectiveness. When recalculating performance of the company for one person, the figure is about 100 million rubles for each
employee.
Total revenue of all participants in the rating CNews100 for the year grew by 22% and reached the level of 1566 billion roubles.
Russian developer of software for automation of work of merchandisers
and sales representatives Inspector Cloud has attracted a new round of investments from the Fund OKS Group, founded by Oleg Polyakov and
Kirill Matveev. The sum of transaction — $500 Funds will be used for expansion into markets in Latin America and Europe.
AK&M: the deal to sell “X Holding” USM – the largest in the it industry
The Agency has included in the ranking announced in April the acquisition of USM and the 100% shares of a diversified it group “X holding” through its division “Wesam Telecom”.
The transaction will be structured through the exchange of shares of stock of companies and closed before the end of 2020. In General, the information technology industry took the second place of the rating AK&M with 10 transactions
$3.06 billion, the Share of industry amounted to 20.8% of the market.
Delivery
“Gazprom” and its eight subsidiaries purchased “Maiofis”
Purchases took place in the form of electronic auctions took place in connection with the implementation of the strategy of gradual transition to a domestic, which involves the pilot implementation projects.
With the licenses Maiofis structure “Gazprom” has acquired solutions for information security, tools for data backup, a program for scanning and recognition
documents, operating systems, DBMS and other software. The total value of all contracts amounted to 10.3 million rubles.
Concern “Automatics” of state Corporation rostec, has put in 14 regions of Russia the device for creation of automated system of commercial accounting of electricity. “Rossetti Centre and Volga region” in
2019 has received more than 75 million devices, totaling 982 million rubles.
Scientific-production enterprise “Signal” in the contest on a complex delivery devices were transferred to the regions 6844 Cabinet into account, 40 000 meters and 30 000 current transformers.
The device is installed, in particular, in the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kostroma, Kursk, Nizhny Novgorod and Yaroslavl regions.
The rostec state Corporation Railways put 15 thousand automated workplaces (AWP). A contract in the amount of 1.08 billion rubles signed a national center of Informatization, Rostec and
“Transinform” (branch of JSC “RZD”).
The customer will put 1,000 computers on the basis of the processor “Elbrus” and 14,000 vehicles on the basis of processor “Baikal”. In accordance with the terms of reference, on computers preinstalled OS on
the Linux kernel “Alto workstation”, included in the national registry of the Ministry of communications. The system contains application software, including the browser, text, graphics and table editors. Equipment
will be used to work in a secure networking technology “thin client” in 230 branches of Railways across the country.
Telekom
Mango Telecom has proposed connecting companies from Blagoveshchensk (Amur oblast), Petrozavodsk (Karelia), Pskov (Pskov oblast) and Ulan-Ude (Buryatia)…
Tele2 updates the data plan for Internet devices
Now subscribers can choose necessary options and customize services for a device with a modem, or for multiple gadgets. Another feature of the proposal – ability to obtain a discount of up to 20% on
the monthly fee under the tariff, joining the group in the framework of the “Profitable together.”
MTT has completed the sale of the Ivanovo operator “MTT connect” local alternative operator “Intercostal”
MegaFon launched a new solution for the market of online Commerce – “Mobile ID”.
The service allows online sites to offer its users a simple and convenient way of identifying the phone number instead of the traditional username and password. To register or
to login using “Mobile ID”, just enter the phone number and confirm your input by answering the sim push notification. The whole process takes five seconds. The client doesn’t need
remember your login and password for each site. AutoFill registration forms are available with the function “Fill with Mobile ID”.
NPP “Radiosvyaz” has developed wireless access, providing data transfer speeds of up to 50 Mbps distance up to 80 km It will allow you to quickly deploy
broadband communications in areas with poorly developed telecomoperator.
The main function of the complex “Step” – organization of stationary and mobile operators the “last mile”. The kit includes the access point that is integrated with the ground
communications infrastructure and acts as a relay. To connect remote users to a network that uses subscriber device acting as a mobile modem. Equipment
withstands extreme temperatures from -50 to +65 degrees, and protected from the effects of precipitation.
MegaFon announced results for the second quarter of 2020
Revenues decreased by 8.3% and amounted to 78,5 billion. Service revenue declined by 6.9% and amounted to 73,4 billion. Sales of equipment and accessories decreased by 24.7% to
RUB 5.2 billion OIBDA decreased by 8.4% to 35.6 billion rubles, OIBDA margin stable at 45.4% of. Operating CAPEX has decreased by 20.1% to
RUB 13.1 bln Net profit rose by 35.2% to RUB 4.0 billion, Total debt decreased by 17.7 billion rubles to 357,4 billion roubles, the Number of subscribers in Russia remained at
the level of 75.4 m, the Number of users of data transfer grew by 4.2% to 34.9 million.
Retail
New features in the app “WB partners” for self-employed
will help to register at Wildberries, will allow you to manage supplies, pricing, sales, track inventory, interact with customer support online retailer to follow
for e-queue receiving in distribution centers and even to submit reports to the Federal tax service (FNS) through integration with the Department’s servers. The app is available in
the Google Play and AppStore.
Now Wildberries employs more than 2,000 self-employed people who produce their own without the involvement of the employees, clothes, shoes, gifts, accessories, food and much more.
Integration
“CITILINK” has completed the implementation of the system Anaplan
cross-functional planning and budgeting. The project was implemented in partnership with the consulting company Mavericka.
SIBUR has completed the project of digital transformation of six warehouses
based on SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM). The project was created a single solution for warehouse management of finished products with the features of the processes
at the company’s enterprises. In the process of project implementation it was important to maintain continuity of activity of the enterprises of SIBUR in the moment of transition to the new inventory system. Partner
the introduction was made by the company TLS.
At the end of the project all information about the movements of stocks available in real time and key parameters are displayed on special panels-Deborah. They appear
available and occupied capacities of the warehouses in tonnes and balletmaster, overdue tasks, the dynamics of production of finished products and the supply of transport to the shipment, productivity shifts in terms of types
operations and employees and many other analytical data. For each site creates a unique set of analytical reports generated with the features
business processes.
Distribution, retail, telecommunications
