OREANDA-NEWS. April 25, 2008. IC ROSNO was honoured with a title of an IT leader in insurance for its outstanding contribution to the development of information technologies in Russia. IT LEADER premium is awarded to the organizations and people directly influencing expansion of the latest information technologies in the country, improving business efficiency and generally making public life better, reported the press-centre of ROSNO.

The National Annual Premium IT LEADER was founded in 2002. The idea to establish this premium belongs to the company KROK, Intelligent Enterprise Magazine, and the group of companies RosBusinessConsulting. At present, the administrative committee also includes the Russian Managers Association, and such magazines as Itogi and CIO.

This year, the event gathered over 500 representatives of the IT industry. Among the laureates were companies from the major sectors of the Russian economy, as well as the state organizations actively implementing information technologies.

The key criteria used to select a winner were innovativeness of business operations conducted by the organizations and their IT directors, special achievements in IT, as well as particular personal and professional qualities of the IT directors and their contributions to the development of their companies and the industry as a whole.

ROSNO was named winner among the three candidates chosen at the stage of preliminary selection among the insurance companies. The award for contribution to the development of information technologies in Russia has also been conferred personally to Mr. Alexei Kopylov, Director of ROSNO’s IT Department.

For the ROSNO Group, the year 2007, which served as a basis for evaluation of the contestants’ performance, was rich with IT achievements.

The company has completed a project involving development of the data safety management system and has been certified under ISO2007.

Furthermore, in 2007, ROSNO completed another stage in developing a financial system based on the Oracle E-Business Suite.

OJSC "ROSNO-MS", subsidiary of ROSNO, has conducted automation of its branches’ financial accounting, using the software product "1С:Enterprise 8.0"/ "Corporate Accounting". ROSNO-MS has also accomplished a project for introduction of a new information system conforming to the accounting policy, as well as to the federal and local legislation. The company has conducted evaluation tests on the automated system "Software and Hardware Complex of the Automated Obligatory Medical Insurance Information System" for compliance with the data safety requirements.

In order to automate operation of the Hotline, ROSNO introduced a software and hardware complex based on HP OpenView Service Desk. At present, the work is under way to expand the complex and connect subsidiaries thereto.