OREANDA-NEWS. April 22, 2010. OJSC KAMAZ and Microsoft Corporation have signed a memorandum of cooperation in Kazan.

The round table meeting of Tatarstan’s regional customers’ IT directors took place in the capital of Tatarstan, where Vahe Torosyan, Vice President of Microsoft, and Nikolay Pryanishnikov, President of Microsoft Rus participated. Within the bounds of this meeting, Viktor Ganin, Director of Information Technologies Department of OJSC KAMAZ discussed with the Microsoft managers issues relating to strategic IT cooperation and extending the licence agreement. The parties agreed that their strategic partnership would offer new opportunities in using Microsoft solutions in the motor industry. Setting up a Microsoft competence centre and a training and IT skills improvement centre on the grounds of OJSC Kamaz in Naberezhnye Chelny was said to be called for, as well as implementing some joint projects financed by Microsoft.

The meeting resulted in signing the memorandum of cooperation between OJSC Kamaz and Microsoft Corporation, in which the parties claimed they intended to establish, develop and support long-term partnership. Information and consultation services and technical support within Kamaz’s priority IT projects are planned to be rendered, IT solutions for OJSC Kamaz based on Microsoft technologies will be jointly designed and promoted. The signee from Kamaz was Guluza Imanova, Deputy Director General for Economy and Finance.