Monthly Archives: September 2011

SAP to invest €1 billion in Russia by 2015, considers R&D facility in Skolkovo

By East-West Digital News / Sep 22, 2011

 

German business software giant SAP, which dominates the Russian ERP market with a whopping50.5% market share, plans to invest €1 billion in Russia and the CIS markets by 2015, Frank Cohen, the President of SAP EMEA, announced at a news conference on Tuesday.

SAP plans to fuel the development of mobile applications and cloud services in the first stage of its expansion program. Second, the company intends to double the number of staff at its CIS offices and more than triple the number of outside SAP advisors it employs, to 20,000, by 2015. Currently, SAP CIS employs 700 people and boasts 6,500 certified consultants working on SAP software implementation projects at other companies. The ultimate goal of SAP is to reach €1 billion in revenues on the CIS market by 2015, Cohen stated.

Among other measures that SAP is ready to undertake to strengthen its market position, particularly in the governmental sector, is opening an R&D lab in Russia by 2012. SAP is eyeing Skolkovo, the state-sponsored innovation hub under construction near Moscow, as the location for this new facility.

 

 

source:http://www.ewdn.com/2011/09/22/sap-to-invest-e1-billion-in-russia-by-2015-considers-rd-facility-in-skolkovo/

Mail.ru doubles investments in its own search engine

By East-West Digital News / Sep 22, 2011

 

Russia’s Mail.ru Group, which leads the Russian-speaking Internet in terms of traffic, plans to double the number of developers working on its own Internet search mechanism, Russian business daily RBС reported on Tuesday, based on information provided by Mail.ru Group. Mail.ru plans to increase its share of the Russian Internet search market in the future, the group’s spokesman added.

Search.Mail.ru currently serves only 6.6% of all Russian search traffic, lagging far behind Yandex and Google, according to LiveInternet.ru data.

Since early 2010, Mail.ru Group has been using the Google search engine for the majority of the search requests it serves. Some searches, however, are handled by Mail.ru’s in-house search technology.

 

 

source:http://www.ewdn.com/2011/09/22/mail-ru-doubles-investments-in-its-own-search-engine/

 

Intel and Rostelecom to produce new broadband Internet connection equipment

By East-West Digital News / Sep 22, 2011

 

Rostelecom and Intel signed a memorandum of understanding last week for the joint design and production of end user broadband Internet connection devices.

Based on Intel technology, the devices will be commercialized in Russia under the Rostelecom’s brand.

Rostelecom, Russia’s national telecom operator, aims to consolidate its leading position on the broadband Internet market.

 

 

source:http://www.ewdn.com/2011/09/22/intel-and-rostelecom-to-produce-new-broadband-internet-connection-equipment/