Timofey Zagurenko, Director of Information Technology

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Association of the largest consumers of software and hardware(KP POO) in June 2023 opened a showcase of IT products developed by companies included in this association. This is a platform for inter-industry exchange of new developments and domestic analogues of products of foreign vendors. According to the chairperson of the association Renata Abdulina, the showcase is intended for the exchange of opinions and experience, it is "about saving resources and increasing efficiency."

However, three months later, in cayman islands whatsapp resource September 2023, at the forumSmart Oil & Gas, which was organized by the ComNews information group, some participants in the oil and gas industry reported that they do not yet fully understand why an IT product showcase is needed. Vladimir Savkin, Director of the Information Technology Department of PJSC Transneft, said: "I have no experience in using the showcase products. I have not seen it. And frankly, I did not even know about its existence."

at the Center for High-Tech Digital Technologies at PJSC NK Rosneft, agreed that there is not enough information about the IT product showcase in the public domain. "The story is interesting and seems necessary, but we have too little information about this initiative. In general, we encounter similar projects when domestic initiatives arise or Western vendors come in and become domestic. We have solved this situation in our company simply: the engineering software (SW) that we develop is distributed through the RN Digital resource, and all materials for work are available there. Outside the perimeter of our company, we already have about 500 active users of such software products, and they regularly use the software and the material associated with it. This is a very good indicator for our resource. In general, there are information platforms related to development within the framework of industrial competence centers (ICC). I would like there to be fewer of them and for them to be understandable to all market participants."

Renata Abdulina told a ComNews correspondent: "One of the advantages of the platform is that it places contacts of project teams and project offices: it is very important for us that developers communicate with each other. We believe that the association's companies and their IT subsidiaries should exchange experience in creating new products. If colleagues are developing a solution similar in functionality, they can, for example, wait for its release. This is a story about exchanging opinions, saving resources and increasing efficiency. We believe that inter-industry information exchange is the key to success."

Ilya Yakimov, Head of Digital Development and Support of Production Processes at Sibur Digital LLC, spoke positively about the creation of the platform, but with caution: "The idea is good, but something tells me that in the future there will be many more such showcases. We are at a crossroads when it is becoming fashionable to breed associations and other similar things. Everyone is uniting, trying to engage in import substitution," Ilya Yakimov said from the podium of the Smart Oil & Gas 2023 forum. - Such showcases are already appearing within the framework of the ICC and other associations. And we need to carry out some kind of synchronization. It would be good to have the ability to download semi-box solutions. But the question still remains: how are we going to adapt all this? And here we will need some kind of service. If we can do this through an association or other associations, that's great. But simply downloading and using the product is very difficult in our reality. Because more often than not, even the developers' software does not fit well with operating systems and processes, it needs to be refined. So the idea is good, but there shouldn’t be many such sites, because they will lose both legitimacy and any meaning.”