OREANDA-NEWS. On 23 June 2008 was announced, that Deputy General Director for IT and Management Technologies of IDGC of Centre, JSC Pavel Obukhov spoke on IDGC experience in risk management at the 15th Russian CIO Forum.

CIO Forum is the oldest Russian conference for IT heads which has been held since 1999. The forum is a leading platform for interaction and opinion exchange among directors of information services, for sharing the best Russian and world experience in the field of IT and its interaction with business, and also for examination by IT directors of recommendations of the world experts and analysts on the issues most relevant for them.

The 15th Russian CIO Forum which has been recently spent in Moscow, again gathered heads of IT divisions of the leading companies, which met to discuss the essential issues. This time administrative aspects of their activities were in the focus of attention.

The forum was divided into four thematic blocks devoted to the problems of management by IT finance, decrease in risks of IT projects, minimization of damage to information safety activity made by an enterprise employees, and also election IT personnel in conditions of the present deficiency of qualified IT staff.

Pavel Obukhov presented the company matrix system that is project-and-process management system. It is this system that allows to lower administrative risks as much as possible. At the organization of project activity, the methodology of project management in conformity with the standard of the International Project Management Association - IPMA - is used.

Efficiency of business processes is analyzed on the basis of the automated system of controlling on the basis of ARIS Process Performance Management platform. The important component of and recipe for efficiency of functioning of the IDGC of Centre management system is the developed resources corporate information management system on the basis of SAP products. As of the beginning of 2008, the automation project system has been covering all industrial divisions of IDGC of Centre branches; the first automated workplaces appeared in regional electric systems. The major achievements of 2007 is introduction of SAP IS-U module regarding formation of productive supply and balance of the electric power to consumers, billing, introduction of FI, FM, СO, HR, MM SD, RM modules, etc. - maintenance and repairs of equipment. SAP products were also used for automation of the process of technological connection which allows to reduce the time of the client servicing. Developing the automation system project, the company within three years should build a uniform information space and move up to the level of leading West-European firms with regard to the information structure development.

The representatives of the following companies also made reports at the Forum: Renaissance Capital, Aeroflot - Russian Airlines, National Logistical Company, RosEvroBank, Vympelcom, Kelly Services, 1С, BMC Software, Check Point Software Technologies, etc.

The next forum - the 16th CIO Forum - is to be held in the autumn of this year and devoted to technological aspects of IT management.