Business In Hi-Tech

IT-GRAD, the cloud provider (part of the MTS Group) informs about the beginning of strategic cooperation with Kraftvaerk, the developer of integrated IT solutions. Partners will develop the digital transformation of Russian business using Kraftvaerk systems hosted in the IT-GRAD cloud. The cloud implementation will allow customers to start using IT systems much faster and optimize costs by 25% on average.

Russia's BellSoft has announced a global partnership to support the Java runtime environment with VMware company, one of the innovative leaders of corporate software development. BellSoft provides VMware with its core Liberica JDK software product to use the VMware Tanzu platform by customers. Working closely with the OpenJDK community, BellSoft and VMware join forces to take the performance and usability of the Java development and execution environment to a whole new level while maintaining its unsurpassed security. Liberica JDK (Java Development Kit) is andevelopment and launch environment of Java application on the OpenJDK base that has passed the Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK) tests for compliance with the Java SE standard.

On June 30, during the preparation of the International Forum of Security & Safety Technologies, an online round table "BIM technologies in design and construction" will be held. The market of BIM technologies will grow by more than 50% by 2023 but the economic effect of implementation isn’t completely clear because the costs are quite significant at the initial stage. Let's talk about this with experts.

Huawei announced that in the near future Russian users will be able to use EMUI 10.1 – a new version of the operating system. OTA (Over the air) updates will be coming to smartphones within a few months, depending on the specific models.

We present the top 3 tenders for the purchase of video surveillance systems of the first half of June. The largest tenders were announced by universities – the Lomonosov Moscow State University and the St. Petersburg University. The initial maximum contract price is more than 92 million rubles.

Xiaomi announced the launch of sales of Mi Smart Band 4 NFC - a special version of the fitness bracelet that supports contactless payment. This innovative product was developed together with Mastercard and is available to cardholders of this payment system. Russia became the first market in the world where this version of the device with full payment functionality was launched.

Yeastar and CompTek announced the conclusion of a partnership agreement. From now on, CompTek's product portfolio will be expanded with a line of innovative Yeastar products and solutions that fully match the new generation of communication technologies.

On June 16, in preparation to the XXVI International Forum of Security & Safety Technologies, an online round table under the name of smart utilities sector and smart districts was held. Experts discussed the construction of innovative pilot "smart" districts in Moscow and other cities and the organization of public security of apartment buildings.

Huawei and Honor announced the launch of new service offers for users of the Russian market. Starting from June 15, 2020, a premium service will be launched in six Huawei | Honor branded service centers and it will be available to owners of some flagship smartphones: Huawei Mate Xs, Huawei Mate 30 Pro, Huawei P40 and P30 series, the new Honor 30 smartphone series – Honor 30 and Honor 30 Pro+ and other models.

We present the largest tenders of the second half of May and the beginning of June on fire safety. The purchase of fire-fighting water tanks for Kursk nuclear power plant-2 (NPP-2) is the leader of the tenders. The initial maximum contract price is more than 230 million rubles. The other major tenders were announced by the Ministry of defense of Russia and enterprises belonging to Russian Railways company.

Sigfox (a French developer and provider of the IoT technology) got an operator in Russia. Sigfox Russia company has launched the 0G (Zero G) industrial Internet of Things network on the territory of Russia.

Ericsson will supply MTS, a Russian telecommunications operator and digital service provider, the equipment for upgrading and building new convergent transport networks in the Central, Far Eastern, Siberian and Southern Federal districts.

On June 9, 235 managers and specialists of safety units, departments of labor protection and industrial safety departments took part in the online conference “Industry 4.0: implementation of machine vision, production video analytics systems and artificial intelligence”.

Rostelecom-Solar, a subsidiary of Rostelecom, conducted a study that showed that about 80% of companies don’t follow the basic password protection rules. At the same time security analysts managed to get administrator privileges almost in every tested corporate network. This would allow a real cybercriminal to develop an attack that is highly likely to lead to the theft of financial funds or confidential information.

We present the largest tenders in May related to the implementation of the safe city and safe region projects. The largest tender is the reconstruction of the regional automated centralized notification system on the territory of three pilot municipalities in the Komi Republic. The initial maximum price is more than 95 million rubles.

ITV Group and Huawei have developed a solution in the field of physical security. It is a server based on Huawei hardware and Axxon Next video surveillance software. The servers will be produced at a new factory in Nalchik (the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic). In the future it is planned to increase the degree of localization. Experts note that the solution can’t be called completely Russian yet but the product has a number of competitive advantages both from the side of security and from the market situation.

Seven plants of Mars company (one of the largest manufacturers in the field of food and animal feed) in Russia have implemented the SAP Extended Warehouse Management system (SAP EWM). The project was implemented by TeamIdea company.

On May 26-28, 2020, 667 security industry executives and specialists participated in the Secuteck ADAPT online program. Within three days 15 brands presented their solutions and product innovations. The audience of each event was from 112 to 201 listeners.

SAS specialists created Scientific Literature Search and Text Analysis, a free environment with visual text analysis capabilities that uses AI, machine learning, natural language processing, linguistic rules and complex modeling methods.

An automated system of monitoring of radiation-related emergencies will be created by order of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation. The system will work on the territory of Russia and Belarus.

Merlion, a Russian wide-profile distributor, and Apple signed an additional agreement under the current contract, which includes the delivery of all the vendor's products. The new stage of cooperation will help to strengthen Merlion's position on the Russian electronics market both in the corporate and consumer segments.

Samsung Electronics and Cisco announced the start of sales in Russia of a video conferencing solution and collaboration Webex On Flip, integrated into an interactive Flip 2 flipchart. The development of two world leaders in the field of IT brings office video conferences to a new mass level.