OREANDA-NEWS. The prize “IT-Leader” was instituted in 2002 by the companies “Krok”, “RosBusinessConsulting” and the magazine Intelligent Enterprise, reported the press-centre of  KAMAZ. Later Russian Managers Association, the magazines “Itogi” and CIO were added to the list of the organizers. In this year the companies IBM, Hewlett-Packard, EMC, Sun Microsystems, Polycom, Microsoft, Dell and Avaya became the partners of the award.