OREANDA-NEWS. April 20, 2009. Mikhail Ponomarev, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Energy Consulting Group, gave an interview for the CNEWS journal, reported the press-centre of Energy Consulting.

Within the framework of the conversation with an observer of the famous Russian IT-media, Mikhail Ponomarev shared his views on the growth prospects with respect to the high-tech market, underlined key roles of the IT technologies for making different important decisions such as the cost reduction and rise in profitability, emphasized importance of the ERP-systems in the corporate management, efficiency upgrading and making actual value for the shareholders.

"If a company has full-fledged set of the business information, analyzes the business-processes, assesses precisely business capabilities and forecasts their development, ensures reliable information security, has prompt response to the changes in the internal and external business environment, cuts costs, increases efficiency, and makes right managerial decisions, such a company is a winner on the market, - said Mikhail Ponomarev. – In other words, who applies the IT capabilities is a winner".

The complete transcript of the interview is in the CNEWS journal, №3-4 (43), 2009.