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Microsoft has announced the winners of the international competition of partner IT solutions Microsoft Partner Awards 2020. In the Country Partner of the Year category in Russia the company Aggregation became the winner, it solves the problem of commercialization of data from various companies and safe collaboration with them. The winners of the competition will be awarded within the framework of Microsoft's largest global partner conference – Microsoft Inspire 2020, which will be held online from July 21 to 23.

Merlion, a Russian wide-profile distributor, and Gamma-Center, a provider of integrated solutions for equipping banks, retailers and other organizations with equipment for cash processing and storage of valuables, signed a distribution agreement in July 2020, giving Merlion the right to supply the Russian market with professional banking and office equipment for working with DoCash (Germany).

On July 16, 2020, within the preparation for the International Forum of Security & Safety Technologies, an online conference on the information security in automated control systems and security of critical information infrastructure will take place. Customers and manufacturers will discuss the implementation of the federal law on CII security, customer cases and prospects for import substitution in this area.

Eset, an international information security expert, has discovered the Evilnum spyware program targeting fintech companies and their customers.

The largest tender in June for the development of Safe city systems became the purchase of research and development works by the Ministry of emergency situations for 690 million rubles. It’s about the development of common standards, functional, technical requirements and predictive and analytical solutions for the Safe city hardware and software complex with the required legal and methodological support. Other tenders in June on the topic of Safe city are also presented.

Dataline, a part of Rostelecom group of companies, has been certified and has become a Cloud Verified partner of VMware.

Lenta has launched an official store on AliExpress. The assortment available on the online platform has 1000 items and it will reach 15 thousand positions in a few months. During the pilot project, delivery will be carried out only in Moscow, and later in St. Petersburg too. AliExpress also notes that the marketplace plans to focus on the development of the product segment: attract new sellers and expand the product range, launch promo campaigns so that buyers associate the platform not only with clothes or electronics but also with food products.

On July 9, as part of the preparation for the International Forum of Security & Safety Technologies, a video conference on face recognition for the protection of large facilities and accounting working hours will be held. The face identification market will reach $ 6.84 billion by 2021, according to MarketsandMarkets. The average annual growth rate in the next two years will be 15.3%. The main drivers of this segment are the growth of the video surveillance market, requests from government agencies and the increased use of biometric applications in various industries.

The American company Comtech EF Data, a manufacturer of equipment for satellite communications, made Andrey Dmitriev a sales director in Russia and the CIS. At the same time, he received the same job position at Comtech Xicom Technology (this firm produces tube amplifiers for satellite communications). Both companies are part of Comtech Telecommunications Corp. with a headquarter in Melville (New York, USA) and haven’t been represented in Russia yet.

We present the main tenders related to access control systems starting from June 1. In total, the initial maximum contract price is more than 67 million rubles. The aviation reducing gears and transmissions - Perm motors company will spend more than 36 million rubles on the supply, construction and installation works, commissioning of equipment and software and technical maintenance.