OREANDA-NEWS. November 06, 2008. The Energy Consulting Group became a partner of CNEWS Forum 2008, the largest informational event in IT-field in Russia. Moscow Hotel Radisson SAS Slavyanskaya hosted state authorities, IT-services of different enterprises, top-management of Russian and international IT-companies as participants, reported the press-centre of Energy Consulting Group.

Within the framework of CNEWS Forum 2008, the participants focused on the main tendencies of high-tech development in Russia, analyzed the most probable prospects of IT development for the nearest years, discussed new technological trends. 

Olga Kovaleva, Energy Consulting/IT Solutions Deputy General Director, said in the interview to a CNEWS ТV reporter: ‘It is impossible to overstress the importance of IT in business management, particularly in terms of changes in environment as a result of recessions when the change management is of primary concern.

Organizations consider high-techs as a tool to adopt less losable business-models. Moreover in terms of fluctuations on the market, it is crucial for top managers to receive confident and reliable information about a company’s position in real-time mode and to have abilities to make true forecasts. Only the integrated information system for business management can offer such scopes’.  

There were the Round-table discussions about relevant IT-solutions for public sector, banking branch, trade, and the fuel & energy complex within CNEWS Forum 2008.

Particular interest of the participants was focused on the discussion of IT-solutions in-demand for the banking sector. Within the frame of a workshop ‘Banks: IT-strategies in terms of uncertain situations’ the issues of IT-services upgrading, data integration and innovative IT-solutions in banking business were under consideration.

Andrey Kuzmin, Energy Consulting/Integration Special Project Director, remarked in his speech ‘Data integration: the unified approach to a customer’ as follows: ‘We have a wide range of the customers information in that variety of IT-systems presented in financial institutions. As a rule, this information is quite different according to format, structure and it’s often duplicated. As a result we can’t have a transparent view on customers’ transactions executed in different IT-systems, on increase in the customers’ communications expenditure. We offer technologies for unification of customers’ data in frame of all the IT-systems used in a bank’.

Sergey Klypa, Energy Consulting/Corporate IT Solutions Head of Practice presented an approach of Energy Consulting to the investment project management for an entity of the fuel & energy complex within the frame of a workshop ‘The Fuel & Energy Complex (FEC): IT in changeable environment".

He remarked that ‘the assignments of the enterprise asset management in the Fuel & Energy Complex become even more vital, particularly related to investment projects in modernization, reconstruction, and new real estate development. It’s obvious because of increase of FEC interest to IT-solutions in the Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)’.

Among the other discussed issues were such ones as setting-up of common information space, increase of management efficiency, strengthening of control over business procedures in the fuel & energy complex.

At the booth of Energy Consulting one can see the IT-solutions for ERP-systems implementing on basis of SAP products, including the full-range special SAP-solutions for insurance companies, applications integration, data storage, IT-security and IT-management.