I-Teco is a leading Russian systems integrator and supplier of information technologies for corporate customers. It provides systems of information security, integration services, consulting, service support and outsourcing, it implements complex, integrated IT-infrastructure solutions and the informatization of major state structures, industrial and telecommunications companies, financial and insurance companies, small and medium businesses.
The company mission is to solve private and global integrated management issues, perfect and develop the organization of production and business structures, acting for the client as a professional consultant, having all the capabilities and resources required to resolve tasks of any level of complexity and of any scale. Project implementation from the specification stage to final realization, support and the constant perfection of existing IT infrastructures, provision of the foundations for successful business development by raising the client’s entire information infrastructure to a qualitatively higher level of reliability, manageability and security- this is the vision and the principal objectives of I-Teco.
The strategic direction of the company’s activity is to implement major and significant IT projects for state ad-ministration, finance and insurance, industry, ICT and telecommunications, transport and trade, science and education, healthcare. I-Teco has unique experience in design, implementation, servicing, technical support and the development of integrated information systems based on own developments, alongside the integration of the products of the world’s leading information technology manufacturers. I-Teco is a leading corporate partner for HP and Microsoft, and it has the largest practice for IT-consulting and IT management process implementation, set out in ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library).
I-Teco was established in 1997. In 2008 company’s turnover constituted nearly 10 billion roubles. Company stuff includes over 880 employees. The qualification of 770 highly skilled IT-specialists is approved by over 500 certificates, including a number of unique for Russia.
I-Teco features in TOP400 Russian largest companies and TOP5 consulting groups engaged in the development and system integration of IT (ratings of "Expert RA"). In 2007 I-Teco was recognized as IT-company of the year in the field of system integration (RBC/CNews Awards), and in 2008 as the Most attractive employer (Superjob.ru).
I-Teco forms trust-based and fair relations with the market participants and aims for building-up a powerful I-Teco brand as a prestigious employer, reliable business partner, socially responsible society unit. I-Teco treasures its untarnished reputation, customers’ trust and due respect of the ICT professionals. For a number of years, according to the estimations of the experts and market members, Company President Shamil Shakirov and Chairman of the Board Alexei Remizov have numbered among the top ten Best IT company managers in Russia (CRN/RE rating 2003-2008). In 2008 the Managing Director Vitaly Podshivalov entered the hundred of the Most effective top managers of Russia ("Secret Firmy").
I-Teco has a full range of licensing and certification needed to carry out works with specific requirements for applied solutions and executors. The company has successfully passed recertification of a quality management system for compliance with the requirements of the Russian GOST R ISO 9001:2001. The company has got the right to utilize the conformance mark of the Certification System for Production, Works and Services, Management System “Euro-Register”. Since its foundation the company has the right to work on projects related to the use of information containing state secrets, with the establishment of means to protect confidential information, development, production, maintenance and distribution of cryptographic tools, having obtained the required licenses of the FSB and Russian Federal Service for Technical and export control.
I-Teco is expanding its presence in the regions as a part of the company’s overall strategy to provide a full range of services to all customers, regardless of how remotely they may be located. I-Teco has opened divisions in North-West and Ural Areas of RF, Bashkortostan and Tatarstan. The company also has several service centres in Yaroslavl Region, Krasnoyarsk and Perm Territories. The representation offices of I-Teco are situated also in CIS republics – Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
I-Teco maintains stable growth for the company's traditional areas. In 2008 I-Teco implemented over 350 large projects. I-Teco’s customers are:
Public agencies and institutions
Supreme Arbitration Court, RF Chamber of Accounts, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Information Technology and Communications, Federal Security Service of Russia, Federal migration service, Federal Customs Service, Federal Tax Service, Federal Board of Treasury, Federal Agency for water resources, “Rosatom” State Nuclear Energy Corporation, Federal Hydrometeorological and Environmental Monitoring Service, Federal Registration Service, Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks (Rospatent), Federal Agency for Forestry, Institute for Numerical Mathematics of Russian Academy of Science, Moscow City Fund of compulsory health insurance, Pension fund of RF, FSUE “MMPP “SALUT”, Ministry of Justice of the Kazakhstan Republic.
Industrial enterprises
Bashneft, Gazprom transgaz Surgut, Ilim Group, KAMAZ, Kazzink, LUKoil, Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant, Mechel, Mosenergo, Naryanmarneftegaz, Nizhnekamskneftekhim, Norilsk Nickel, United Metallurgical Company, RosAgro, Rosneft, RUSAL, Severstal Group, Sevkabel Holding, SIBUR Holding, Surgetneftegaz, Tatneft, TNK-BP Holding, Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company, Uralelektromed, Fosagro.
Banks, investment & financial and insurance institutions
Sberbank of Russia, Absolut Bank, Alemar Bank, Antanta-Capital, Baltic Bank, the Bank of Moscow, Banque Societe Generale Vostok, Vnesheconombank, Russian Regional Development Bank, VTB, VTB24, VTB-ROSNO, Gazinvestbank, Gazprombank, Gazfond, City Mortgage Bank, ING Life, Lipetskkombank, Moscow Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Moscow lending Bank, National Reserve Bank, Novicom Bank, NOMOS Bank, Raiffeisen Bank, Renaissance Insurance, RESO-Insurance, ROSNO, Rosbank, Rosselhozbank, Rossiyskiy Credit Bank, Russian Standard Bank, Russian Development Bank, Troika Dialog, URALSIB, Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development, URSA-Bank, Etalon Bank.
Telecommunication companies, cellular communication operators
Bashinformsvyaz, Vympelcom, MegaFon, MGTS, MTS, Rostelecom, Tattelecom.
Companies of consumer market and others
Armadillo Group, Ashan, East-Line, Corston, International grain company, MIEL, National Logistics Company, Paterson, PIK Group, POILSOFT, ROLF, Toyota, Transaero, Philip Morris, Heineken.
Following the results of tenders I-Teco has been repeatedly authorized to implement large-scale projects. The company has won the international tender for modernization and re-equipping of the Agency on Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring. The total cost of the project was $133 million.
Sberbank of Russia has, through the aid of I-Teco, projects to modernize corporate data storage resources, introduction of geographically distributed high-availability systems, management systems of IT services, development of software and hardware systems. The central office of SBRF held installation of one of the most complicated in Europe SAN-solutions, as a result of which central clearing system of Sberbank was the first of Russian organizations to join the TOP500 most powerful computer systems in the world. In accordance with the strategy of automation activities of the Federal Treasury I-Teco modernized IT infrastructure of territorial bodies in all 88 Subjects of the Russian Federation for the deployment of specialized business applications. The hardware platform for the information system of the Federal Treasury has been developed and implemented in the pilot objects to be subsequently repeated for the other divisions and offices of the Federal Treasury. Specialists of I-Teco successfully conducted works to modernize multi-service network of Bashinformsvyaz, to set up computer cluster in Institute for Numerical Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences, to optimize business processes at MegaFon , to create data storage at Gazfond, to provide outsourcing of stand-alone IT systems of RUSAL, to develop IT-resources monitoring system in Gazprom transgaz Surgut.
Portfolio of I-Teco incorporates such large projects as the creation of an Internet portal for the Administration of the Novgorod region; supply, assembly and installation of hardware and software to create infrastructure of Rosnedvizhimost (Federal agency on real estate cadastre) agencies at the federal level; the implementation of hardware and software system for Moscow City Fund of compulsory health insurance – in the medical-care facilities of Moscow; the development of common information space corporate management system based on SOA at Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant; the introduction of integrated information technology infrastructure at ING Life insurance company.
The new implemented projects are: the development of integrated information system prototype for Public Service Centres of Ministry of Justice of the Kazakhstan Republic; database spread-out and patent search system development at Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks (Rospatent); technological level increase of Federal Registration Service to provide public services; terminal access system implementation at Siberian Coal Energy Company; implementation of energy accounting automated system at Severstal; operative supervisory control automated system implementation at SiburTyumenGaz; technical documentation portal development and implementation at Moscow office of Toyota Motor; warehouse management and shipping business processes integration at National Logistics Company; building up the system of evaluation of key performance indicators at Mosenergo; implementation of EDMS module at PIK Group; corporate data transfer networks modernization of the branches of Rostelecom; implementation of enterprise applications acceleration system and WAN-traffic optimization at Gazinvestbank; IT-projects portfolio management implementation at TransCreditBank; implementation of the system for automation of problem management and configuration management processes in HP OV Service Desk at MTS; implementation of enterprise information system at MGTS; etc.
I-Teco has the following approved certified partner statuses, including the highest for integrators: AlarmPoint Solution Provider (first partner in Russia), APC by Schneider Electric Certified Gold Reliability Provider Partner; Brocade Alliance Partner, CA Authorized Reseller Premier ESP; Check Point Silver Partner, Cisco Gold Certified Partner; Citrix Gold Solution Advisor; EMC First Level Partner for CMA (Content Management & Archiving); Fujitsu Siemens Select Partner; GFI Software Silver Partner; Hitachi TrueNorth Gold Solutions Partner; IBM Premier Business Partner; InfoWatch Security Integrator, McAfee SecurityAlliance Elite Partner, Network Appliance Platinum Partner; CIS Novell Partner; Oracle Certified Advantage Partner; Red Hat Authorized Partner; Riverbed Exclusive Partner in Russia; Sun Microsystems Advantage Principal Partner, Sun Service Partner, SCO Authorized Partner; Symantec Platinum Partner and Authorized Technical Assistance Partner; Tibco Regional Consulting Partner; VMware Enterprise Partner and VMware Authorized Consultant GOLD; Wonderware ArchestrA Certified System Integrator, ZyXEL Gold System Integrator; InformZaschita Platinum Partner. Due to the results of 2008 I-Teco is recognized as the BSI Management Systems CIS Best Partner to promote ISO/IEC 20000 international standard in the Russian Federation and CIS.
The company has scored its success owing to the partnership alliances with world leaders – Amdocs, Avaya Brocade Communications System, Lampertz, Misys, Mitel, Philips, Rockwell Automation, SAP AG, Schlumberger, Schneider Electric etc. I-Teco also partners with Russian software developers for finance, oil-and-gas and industry sectors.
During 12 years I-Teco is the major HP Partner in system integration. I-Teco was recognized as the best HP Partner in implementation and project management and the major system integrator of HP in ISE (including 95 counties). I-Teco was one of the first Russian companies who received the status of platinum partner in solutions of HP OpenView in ISE. Due to the results of 2008 the company became three times on end, being the only Russian company, - platinum partner of HP in the field of system integration. I-Teco is recognized as the best sales partner for HP servers and data storage systems, has received the highest number of awards for promoting solutions based on HP Integrity SuperDome , on HP Integrity servers and HP Global iCAP technology . In 2008 the company got HP/Microsoft Frontline Partner status, approved status of HP CarePack Elite Club Honorary Member, was awarded HP CarePack Fastest Sales Growth and Proactive Blade Systems Services Best Sales.
I-Teco is the number one team on the number and level of HP statuses, including HP Preferred Partner with the unique set of specializations: DataCentre Solutions Specialist; High Performance Computing Specialist; ProCurve Networking Specialist Master; Service Specialist Authorized Service Partner; Service Sales Specialist; Service Specialist Professional Services Partner; Storage Works Solutions Specialist; Virtualization Specialist and Authorized Platinum Partner.
As the largest corporative partner of Microsoft in Russia I-Teco is an Enterprise Solution Provider, a Gold Certified Partner and a Large Account Reseller, "The Best partner of Microsoft 2007" for the fastest growing practices for the implementation of solutions and migration to new MS software products.. In 2002, under the terms of strategic partnership agreement the Competency centre for Microsoft solutions was opened at I-Teco. There are 40 staff specialists possessing Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Certificate in the centre.
I-Teco was the first Russian company attained the status of Competency centre for Oracle Fusion Middleware: Business Process Management. The company is one of the first who has got the status of Competency centre for Oracle Grid and Consolidation.
In 2003, I-Teco and ÍÐ founded the OpenView Technology Centre (since 2007, HP Software Technology Centre), a unique joint project to introduce the advanced IT-management experience to potential customers, debug and demonstrate various solutions for IT management system construction based on ÍÐ OpenView technologies for heterogeneous information environments.
The Project Management Office was created for the purpose of development and practice the methods of organizing departments interaction providing project management. In 2004, I-Teco became a member of IPMA – International Project Management Association (SOVNET).
The creation of a specialized Development centre of infrastructure solutions is linked to the increasing share of the project works on the audit and architecture design of corporate computing systems. The centre successfully develops end-to-end integrated solutions, including establishment of server complexes, data centres, data storage systems and backup systems for projects of any level of complexity.
Opening of the Competence centre for banking information technologies has become a natural stage in the development of I-Teco’s sector-based expertise in the field of solutions for financial institutions, due to the increasing demand of major retail banks for specialized solutions and the need to conform to international standards of conducting business activities.
In 2008 I-Teco put into operation its own Data Centre which is unique for Russia considering its technological faults security, characteristics and size. The Data Centre is located in the south of Moscow and has 800 racks (more than 34000 units), its area being 3,000 sq.m.
The company improves and actively implements its own analytical BI-developments, including patented products: Analytical courier – the extraction of knowledge from documents system, and records management system X-Files (registered in the Russian Federation under ¹2005612283 and ¹20065612282), which are already used by a number of government structures.
According to ratings and research of Russian IT market, time and again I-Teco is recognized as leading expert in the field of development and implementation of complex state-of-the-art IT solutions and rendering of consulting services.