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From Telecom Operator to Digital Company: Where Rostelecom Is Heading

Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2025 6:25 am
by tanjimajuha20
Rostelecom President Mikhail Oseevsky called the formation of a commercial IT cluster a logical stage in the development of Rostelecom as a "technological leader and driver of digital transformation." "We are ready to provide our accumulated experience and expertise to companies seeking to optimize processes, increase competitiveness and accelerate business growth through the implementation of digital technologies," he added.

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Rostelecom's digital revenue philippines whatsapp resource has quadrupled in five years. Rostelecom is in the final stages of its transformation from a telecom operator to a digital company, focusing on the development of five digital clusters. Rostelecom resolves every fourth message from a B2C client and every fifth message from a B2B client in a chatbot.

At the end of 2023, Rostelecom President Mikhail Oseevsky announced that Rostelecom's digital revenue had quadrupled in five years and that Rostelecom was in the final stages of its transformation from a telecom operator into a digital company, focusing on the development of digital clusters.

Earlier, the IT department was divided at Sberbank PJSC - now this company has a "Technologies" block, which is engaged in the development and provision of business and the platform (Platform V) - it was headed in May 2024 by Senior Vice President Kirill Menshov, who had been heading the IT cluster of Rostelecom PJSC since 2017.

The second IT block at Sber - Technological Development - is working on creating a new platform based on AI. It is headed by Senior Vice President of Sberbank PJSC Andrey Belevtsev, who previously headed the Technology block.

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Sberbank Appoints Kirill Menshov Head of Technology Block
Sberbank PJSC has appointed Kirill Menshov, former head of the IT cluster at Rostelecom PJSC, to the position of head of the Technologies block. In this position, he will replace Andrey Belevtsev, who will head a new direction in Sber's infrastructure - the Technological Development block.

Changes to improve business performance

Dmitry Vasiliev, a partner at the Reksoft group of companies, believes that reorganizing Rostelecom's work with its IT solutions and consolidating their sales in a single structure under common management is the right decision: "My many years of experience in IT show that with proper organization, the sale of related products can increase the client's income by at least 30%. One of the challenges facing David Martirosov is building a sales department and coordinating the interests of all 60 product lines, each of which is at a serious stage of maturity and independence.

Ilya Sergeev, Head of IT Outsourcing, GeekSource, Ancor Group (Ancor Staffing Group), called Rostelecom an example of how to properly restructure and adapt a business during the period of departure of foreign IT providers and foreign software: by allocating part of the business into a separate IT cluster, the company concentrates the accumulated experience in the development and application of digital products both within the structure and within the framework of subsidiaries.

"The registration of IT assets in a single cluster will allow the creation of an eco