Moscow, October 15, 2007 Following a bidding process OGK-1 JSC has awarded the IT strategy development contract to IBS, the Russian consulting company. By the end of this year IBS will audit the current business processes and the supporting information systems and determine the unified platform for information system implementation.
The IT strategy development project will be the first phase of the corporate management information system development program. The work group and the project steering committee are now being formed.
The project will result in a plan for the corporate management information system development, validated time and financial resources, information and organizational structure proposals, the statement of work for the corporate management information system and technical requirements for its subsystems. In early December an electric power plant will be identified as the pilot area where the system will be implemented concurrently with implementation at the OGK-1 headquarters.
“We expect a great deal from this project”, says Vladimir Khlebnikov, General Director of OGK-1: “The competitive environment emerging in the power industry requires on-going efforts to grow and make the company more efficient. Optimization of business and operating processes will improve management of purchasing, logistics, repairs and more importantly management of new generation capacity construction”.
“A long-term IT strategy is important for any business and a must for a public company. A well-conceived strategy helps to make the company more transparent, improves investment control and assists in building an infrastructure that is appropriate for the business objectives. OGK-1 has ambitious plans for growth, and most importantly this project seeks to leverage state-of-the-art information and management technologies to provide conditions for such growth”, Victor Nasyrov, Deputy General Director, IBS commented on the project.
About OGK-1
OGK-1 accounted for 6.5 per cent of sales in the first price zone of the wholesale electric energy market in 2006. OGK-1 includes Permskaya, Verkhne-Tagilskaya, Kashirskaya, Nizhnevartovskaya, Urengoyskaya and Iriklinskaya state regional power plants. With 9,531 MW of installed capacity, OGK-1 has the biggest capacity among thermal generation companies formed in the electric energy industry reform. General Director of OGK-1: Vladimir Viktorovich Khlebnikov.
The authorized capital of OGK-1 JSC is 25,660,014,425 rubles (Twenty-Five Billion Six Hundred Sixty Million Fourteen Thousand Four Hundred Twenty-Five) divided into 44,643,192,918 common registered shares having the par value of 0.57478 rubles. Since July 18, 2007 OGK-1 JSC shares have been listed on MICEX (quotation list: I, ticker: OGK1).
The company currently plans to implement an investment program providing for over 2,000 MW of generation capacity to be built in the coming five years in Russian regions experiencing power shortages, with a large number of projects to be carried out in the Urals region. www.ogk-1.com
For further information please contact:
Elena Vishnyakova, +7-916-577-80-11
About IBS
IBS is Russia’s leading player in the IT and consulting market. It is part of IBS Group. For more information on the company please visit http://www.ibs.ru.
On April 17, 2007 IBS and Borlas Consulting Group announced merger and formation of the new merged company with the total headcount of over 3,500 employees (including over 1,500 certified consultants) and over 50% of services as a percentage of total revenue. 84 of Russia’s top 100 companies are customers of IBS and Borlas Consulting Group. The merged company will be the absolute leader in the Russian IT services market.
For further information on IBS please contact:
Lada Scherbakova,
PR Director
Phone: +7 495 967-80-80
E-mail: lada@ibs.ru
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