OREANDA-NEWS. November 20, 2007. Energy Consulting/Integration has submitted tentative business results of the Company’s activity for the first year and announced the business development prospects, reported the press-centre of Energy Consulting/Integration.

Energy Consulting/Integration was created in October 2006 for approaching the Russian system integration market and diversifying the range of consulting services of the Group.

For the past year the Company achieved considerable success, having become an efficient partner for its customers, providing all types of IT services from strategy development to outsourcing.

We help our customers optimize their information technologies to guarantee that IT structure and infrastructure meet requirements of business and customer’s applied solutions.

According to Alexander Tukunov, Head of IT Consulting Practice of EC/Integration, today the sole task for Financial Director and IT Director is to change the status of IT service from ‘expenditures’ to an instrument of gaining profit and enhancing the company’s competitiveness, ensuring return of investments to IT. In this instance the role of IT consulting and IT strategy is of key importance when creating value chain of the company’s business.

One of the main achievements of the Company for the past year is a highly professional team. Many IT companies offer similar services on the today’s market. “Our special approach is characterized by the fact that our Company boasts wide experience and profound competence in audit and consulting in business processes. This enable us to build the strategy not resting on IT but basing on business itself, ensuring their continuous conjunction”, - stressed Boris Konovalov, the Company’s Director General.

Companies making part of the EC Group provide a complete range of offers and provide their customers with a logically structured complex of services, and when the customer resells such services it reaches a fundamentally better and considerably higher level of business.

The EC/Integration package of IT services includes the whole spectrum of services in system integration, including building of data processing and information security centers. Consulting services in IT management were a new direction of the Company’s activity: shared IT services centers, IT processes inspection and audit, IT service reengineering, implementation of IT management system, testing of information systems, IT assets management systems.

Successful development of the Company is drastically due to the new concept of IT services and the Company’s guideline aimed at diversification of business tasks, solved by these services. In particular, basing on this approach specialists of several companies of Energy Consulting Group have developed and offered a service guaranteeing complex risk management and business security management.

Of main priority for EC/Integration are such markets as fuel & energy industry, financial sector and production sector.

Energy Consulting/Integration is a partner of leading international providers of IT solutions, including HP, IBM, APС, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, Oracle, BMC, Check Point, Symantec, Altiris, Websense. We have attained high partner statuses and we are planning to further extend the “list of partners” and upgrade respective statuses. Multivendor environment lets our Company use most optimal solutions for different suppliers in our projects.