Head of the Ministry of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev said that the department’s goal is to reduce the number of IT developments in state corporations that already duplicate existing solutions on the market or that initially cannot be commercially successful and are not in demand. by external clients. To this end, the Ministry of Digital Development intends to force state-owned companies to bring their internal products to the open market and sell them in a certain volume. Otherwise, the software will be excluded from the national solutions registry.
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According to Shadayev, import substitution software is often created within state corporations “to report to superiors,” writes Kommersant. In this case, resources (financial and human) leave the market to work on an obviously unviable product. And this harms the entire IT industry as a whole.
The Ministry of Digital Development is confident that the internal products of state-owned companies will also be useful to external customers. Otherwise, companies will need to use software already available on the market to solve their problems.
The agency believes that external sales in a certain volume (no specific threshold is specified) should become an indispensable condition for state IT solutions to be included in the Russian software register from 2025.
A study by Reksoft Consulting from the beginning of 2024 showed that only 27% of large companies are, in principle, ready to consider the possibility of monetizing an internal product, and we are talking, rather, about sales within holdings and affiliated structures . Only 4% are willing to think about selling to external partners.
However, there are also state-owned companies on the market that successfully sell their domestic products to the foreign market. This is, for example,
Rostelecom (a representative of the company claims that if corporations enter the market, the developments must generate at least 70% of revenue), Rosatom, Russian Railways, Rosneft (of whose 23 software products 12 are already successfully sold ), Sber (Pulse HR platform case), etc.
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