OREANDA-NEWS. April 28, 2010. ARMADA (MICEX, RTS: ARMD) has announced the launch of operation testing of the Unified Interdepartmental Statistical Information System (UniSIS) linking up the statistical resources of more than 50 federal governmental agencies in Russia. This system is based on open-source software. The project is implemented under a contract with the Federal IT Agency and supported by the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) of Russia in 2008—2010.

UniSIS is a nationwide information system which consolidates the information space of more than 50 federal agencies. By the end of 2010, UniSIS is due to be filled with official statistics to become the single source of reliable and up-to-date official statistics for the Russian government, public authorities, public and commercial organizations and the population as a whole.

In fact, the UniSIS project based on UN statistical data exchange standard SDMX was so unparalleled that Eurostat requested that ARMADA’s specialists, on behalf Rosstat, share their experience in creating UniSIS in a report delivered at the Conference of European Statisticians hosted by the UN Economic Commission for Europe in conjunction with Eurostat in Geneva in March 2010. The Conference drew specialists from over 60 countries.

The integrated statistical system came about as a result of the government and Rosstat’s appreciation of the importance for governmental agencies to use cutting-edge IT, which highlights the government’s role in shaping the Russian IT market.

ARMADA regards the creation of a state software application of such an unprecedented scale based on open-source software as an important contribution to the future expansion of the company’s market share in the dynamically developing segment of governmental IT projects based on open-source software.