Russian medium and small businesses (SMEs) in 2024 will be able to reach the level of software import substitution by only 25%. At the same time, large companies will be able to replace foreign solutions by 75% in the coming years. The main reason for the relatively low indicator of the former was the lack of funding for migration and staff shortages.
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On average, today the level of foreign software substitution in large companies is 35-50%, according to a study by the integrator K2Tech and the business bank Blank, the results of which are cited by Forbes.
In 2023, the number of Russian solutions in large companies and organizations increased by 15%. At the same time, in small and medium-sized businesses the transition to domestic products is occurring more slowly. Thus, the number of Russian solutions in this segment increased in 2023 by 10 percentage points compared to 2022, from 7% to 17%.
Based on this dynamic, experts believe that in 2024 SMEs will reach a replacement level of no more than 25%.
According to experts, the key factor for the migration of large companies to Russian software is legislative changes. In particular, by presidential decree, critical information infrastructure (CII) companies must completely switch to Russian software by January 1, 2025.
But not all of these organizations make a systemic transition. 32% of respondents reported the absence of a specific migration process. Thus, a third of organizations are implementing projects to partially replace solutions or do not need to switch to another infrastructure at all.
More than half of the respondents still use foreign products, supporting them with their own resources and the resources of their service partners, or through parallel imports.
In addition, more than half (64%) are confident that in the current reality it is impossible to completely replace the products they are used to without compromising the usual functionality.
As for SMEs, today they are the ones that most need infrastructure solutions (office packages, virtualization, backup systems), MES class systems, corporate information systems and advanced analysis and information security solutions.
The transition is mainly hampered by a lack of financing (44%) and a shortage of qualified specialists (22%).
The study was carried out among 116 entrepreneurs of Russian companies with a turnover of more than 10 billion rubles per year. More than a thousand projects and market requests were selectively analyzed in the magazine’s central themes. The authors of the work also surveyed 2.5 thousand entrepreneurs in the SME segment.
Author:
Natalia Gormaleva
Source: RB
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