Rustam Minnikhanov: the connection between IT sphere and real sector of economy is not efficient enough

Tatarstan enterprises should implement advanced IT in their work more efficiently, RT President stated at a meeting “Implementation and improvement of business management using IT”. The meeting was held in Kazan IT-park with participation of RT Premier Ildar Khalikov, chiefs of ministries, departments and major industrial enterprises.

Opening the event Rustam Minnikhanov marked though IT sector is rapidly developing in Republic, it is connected with real sector not well enough. Head of Republic believes today’s meeting should demonstrate advantages and opportunities of IT.

RT President reminded the republican economy faces the task to bring industrial production to 2 trillion roubles by 2016. “New economic conditions require new approaches to activity of our enterprises”, Rustam Minnikhanov said.

Minister of informatization and communications Nikolay Nikiforov told about “cloud” technologies - perspective area in developing IT systems. “Cloud” technology is a technology of distributed data processing where computer resources and capacity are provided to the user as Internet service. Enterprises which turn to “cloud” services do not have capital costs for building and equipping their own server premises, and computing resources are based on current business needs.

Nikolay Nikiforov believes use of “cloud” computing may be much more efficient than the traditional model of organizing IT-systems. 45 % of major world companies currently use “cloud” services.
In terms of IT sector development we primarily counted on centralization of computing resources, Nikolay Nikiforov informed.

The need for computing capabilities of Tatarstan Government increases by 40 % every year. Thus a powerful data center was created in IT-park. By words of N. Nikiforov it can also be used for rendering “cloud” services to industrial enterprises.

RT Minister of industry and trade Ravil Zaripov told about advantages of using ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems for managing internal and external resources of an enterprise.

Officials of large companies – Tatneft and KAMAZ shared their experience of implementing such systems.