OREANDA-NEWS. A ceremony of awarding Annual National Award IT Leader for 2007 was held in Moscow. TVEL became a Winner in engineering nomination. The company was awarded for outstanding contribution in the development of information technologies in Russia. Personal award was given to the Vice-President of JSC TVEL Konstantin Sokolov.

A large scale project of introduction of corporate information system (CIS) of TVEL Corporation became the basis for award. Its creation was aimed at a rise of efficiency of corporate management and introduction of control over all stages of the life cycle of nuclear fuel. Today IT experts of the holding work on establishing a corporate network of data transmission, information protection system and integrating information system in compliance with international business standards.

According to K.Sokolov, “we see this system as a part of the necessary infrastructure for normal functioning of our Corporation. At present completing the project of establishing a corporate information system is a priority for us. We believe that commencing of this system will make the functioning of the Corporation more transparent and will speed up decision making process”.

IT Leader Award has a 5-year history. Its expert council comprised this year 23 most famous experts in the field of IT technologies. Among them were Olga Dergunova (Microsoft), Boris Scherbakov (Oracle), Nick Rossitter (Symantec) and others.