OREANDA-NEWS. August 06, 2012. The delegation of SAP EMEA led by its President Frank Cohen arrived in the Republic of Tatarstan and met with OJSC KAMAZ`s top managers in Kazan, reported the press-centre of KAMAZ.   

The meeting was attended by Yuri Klochkov, CEO of OJSC KAMAZ; Kirill Puzyrkov, Deputy Director General of HRM, KAMAZ; and Mikhail Nosov, Director of the Center of Innovation and Communication Technologies, KAMAZ.

In the course of the meeting, the parties discussed the issues concerning possible opening of a SAP representative office on the territory of Tatarstan. SAP is the world’s leader on the market of enterprise applications. The participants also discussed the establishment of the SAP Competence Center for implementation, maintenance and user training, as well as the issues of the potential market and terms of delivery of SAP business solutions to enterprises of the Republic of Tatarstan.

KAMAZ is actively using the SAP system. Under the program of reengineering of information systems and IT infrastructure of the company, all basic information services of OJSC KAMAZ will be transferred to the facilities of the data center in Kazan till the end of 2012. According to Mikhail Nosov, this program applies to plants of the main production string in Naberezhnye Chelny, other divisions of the parent company and subsidiaries. The program will enable the company to minimize the necessity of investments in its own data centers.

The meeting between the top managers of SAP and OJSC KAMAZ will strengthen these companies’ partnership. Summing up the results of their negotiations, the parties expressed hope for further fruitful cooperation in the field of information technologies.