OREANDA-NEWS. May 05, 2008. Group of companies Energy Consulting held a seminar "What does business expect from IT? Practical tips", reported the press-centre of Energy Consulting.

This activity which turned out to be quite successful took place in Marriott Grand Hotel and was aimed at the discussion of practical issues related to business enhancement. Microsoft, Check Point, Symantec and Cisco acted as the partners of the seminar. Energy Consulting is actively facilitating partnership relations with these companies.

A number of representatives of various Russian enterprises, companies and banks, including OOO SP BUSINESS CAR Ltd, the Open Joint-Stock Company OAO Mobile TeleSystems, the Open Joint-Stock Company OAO GMK Norilsky Nikel, the Open Joint-Stock Insurance Company SOAO National Insurance Group, the Open Joint-Stock Company OAO CB GazInvestBank, etc., took part in the seminar.

The speech "From Technologies to Business via IT" given by Andrey Semenchuk, Director of Sales Development Department of OOO SP BUSINESS CAR Ltd drew a lot of the audience’s attention. The leading specialists of Energy Consulting/Integration also spoke at the seminar. The objectives of business communication efficiency enhancement, optimal application and use of IT resources, support of business information security, IT asset management and creation of data storage banks were also discussed at the seminar.

The Energy Consulting/Integration leading specialists’ reports drew considerable attention and interest of the audience and brought about heated disputes. “Business effectiveness enhancement is an integral condition of its success”, marked Boris Konovalov, Director General of Energy Consulting/Integration. "IT may really help improve business results and gain leadership". The consulting internet portal Consult.ru became an information partner of the seminar "What does business want from IT? Practical tips".