OREANDA-NEWS. January 28, 2013. IBS Group, a leading software development and ITservices provider in Central and Eastern Europe, announces that IBS IT Services, a member of IBS Group, has successfully completed the first stage of implementing an automated human resource management system at Gazprom: the system’s module “Accounting and Payroll” has been commissioned, reported the press-centre of IBS Group.   

The project was launched in 2009, after IBS IT Services had been chosen as the General Contractor for HR management automation at Gazprom. The final product of the project, which is scheduled for completion in April 2013, should be one of the industry’s largest HR databases (covering over 100,000 employees).

Before the project began, Gazprom Group had no single HR database, which prevented staff benchmarking across the Group. As a result, corporate analysis, planning and controlling personnel costs, or projecting the need for employees with certain qualifications had to be done with high margins of error and much effort.

To address these issues, the IBS team focused on faster information processing, reduced effort for Gazprom’s HR management and reporting processes, and implementation of an effective competence-based management system to provide transparency and enhance the effectiveness of HR management, and delivering an integration solution to be aligned with reporting systems across Gazprom’s subsidiaries.

Currently, the new HR system services over 400 users in the Gazprom Administration and more than 700 users in its subsidiaries. When completed, the system will be used by all the employees of the Administration (2,000 users) and 4,095 employees working at HR departments of Gazprom’s subsidiaries.

About IBS Group Holding Limited

IBS Group is a leading software development and IT services provider in Central and Eastern Europe. Through its two principal subsidiaries, Luxoft and IBS IT Services, it offers a wide variety of information technology services, such as software development and IT services outsourcing, IT infrastructure and business applications implementation. IBS Group has business operations in Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, the UK, the USA, Vietnam and Singapore. IBS Group employs more than 8,300 people worldwide. In the year ended March 31, 2012, the Group reported US GAAP consolidated revenues of USD816.3 million. IBS Group's Global Depositary Receipts are listed on the Regulated Market (General Standard) at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Bloomberg: IBSG:GR; Reuters: IBSGq.F)