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Softline company is the leading international company in the field of software licensing and provodinf of all range of IT-services in training, consulting, technical and legal support, as well as IT-outsourcing services.
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Softline company in Russia (www.softline.ru) has worked in the field of informational technologies since 1993 and achieves a dominant positions in the area of software licensing, training and consulting. Softline company is the leading provider of more than 3.000 of software vendors. Softline is the authorized partner of well-known world vendors. It has the highest partnership statuses: Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Microsoft Large Account Reseller; Symantec Platinum Partner; Citrix Platinum Solution Advisor; Elite McAfee Value Added Reseller, Computer Associates Premier Partner; Oracle Certified Partner and many others. At present time Softline company has offices in 35 Russian cities (Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Ufa, Khabarovsk, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Krasnoyarsk, Omsk, Chelyabinsk, Perm, Krasnodar, Vladivostok, Irkutsk, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Saratov, Barnaul, Izhevsk, Tyumen, Arkhangelsk, Kemerovo, Syktyvkar, Orenburg, Voronezh, Tomsk, Ulyanovsk, Nabereznye Chelny, Yaroslavl, Surgut, Penza, Stavropol), as well as in Ukraine (Kiev, Kharkov), Belarus (Minsk, Gomel, Vitebsk, Brest), Kazakhstan (Almaty, Astana, Karaganda, Aktobe), Uzbekistan (Tashkent), Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek), Tajikistan (Dushanbe), Azerbaijan (Baku), Georgia (Tbilisi), Turkmenistan (Ashkhabad), Armenia (Erevan) and in some countries abroad: Mongolia (Ulan Bator), Turkey (Istanbul), Venezuela (Karakas), Vietnam (Hanoi), Iran (Teheran), Egypt (Cairo).
Axoft company (www.axoft.ru) is the leading software distributor in the market of Russia and CIS countries. The company delivers products of more than 1.000 software vendors, among which are: Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett- Packard, Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro, Check Point, GFI, Embarcadero, Red Hat, Computer Associates, Novell, PTC, Adobe, Quark, Corel, Kerio, ABBYY, Kaspersky Lab, ASKON, Acronis, Eset, PROMT, Dr. Web, etc. Axoft partner network members are more than 5.500 companies: solution providers, resellers and other organizations, someway related to the software sales. In addition to optimal cooperation conditions Axoft company provides partners with a large package of optional services of consultative, technical and marketing support. Axoft has offices in the following Russian cities: Moscow, Yaroslavl, Voronezh, Saint-Petersburg, Arkhangelsk, Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar, Volgograd, Samara, Saratov, Ufa, Kazan, Izhevsk, Perm, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Tyumen, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, as well as in CIS countries: Ukraine, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kirgizia, Uzbekistan and Mongolia.
Allsoft.ru company (www.allsoft.ru) is the leading Russian license software web-shop, founded by Softline company in 2004. Its catalog contains more than 11.000 programs from Russian and foreign vendors. Advantages of Allsoft.ru include quick delivery (electronic and physical), storage discount system and variety of payment methods: online-payments, including bank cards, payment terminals, SMS, etc. The partner network of Allsoft.ru consists of more than 10.000 members. Allsoft.ru shop is provided in Russian internet, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Softline Cloud Services project started in 2010. The main direction of development is the providing of SaaS solutions for enterprise market: Microsoft, Symantec, Google, ITooLabs, etc. At the present time more than 40 services are in the company’s portfolio, including industry solutions. Advantages of SaaS licensing model are as follows: a real economy of 40-80% on total value of IT-infrastructure ownership; instant connection and modeling of required functions; change of structure of IT expenses, from large capital expenses (CAPEX) to small operational expenses (OPEX).
NiltaSoft company is the logistical company, working with foreign software vendors.
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Softline System Solutions Center (www.sl-sc.ru and www.sl- support.ru) is the team of IT-experts, providing the wide range of services: technical support, IT-outsourcing, complex infrastructural projects, hardware/software solutions delivery. The center’s experts have the unique set of certificates of the leading software developers, such as: Microsoft, Citrix, Check Point, Cisco, McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro, Kaspersky Lab, Eset, Websense, Kerio, VMware, IBM, Red Hat Linux, Novell, CommuniGate Systems, Scalix, ALT Linux, etc., which enables to perform the large projects of implementation and technical support of IT-environments of any complexity and content, as well as to provide customers with a single access point on informational systems maintenance, including resolution of problems in heterogeneous environment and across manufacturers. Today the System Solutions Center has affiliates in Saint-Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Ufa, Khabarovsk, Almaty (Kazakhstan), Teheran (Iran) and Cairo (Egypt).
Since 2006 Softline Information Security Center (http://slsecurity.ru) provides services of strategy development, design, implementation and optimization of solutions in the area of information security for companies of any size in Russia and abroad. Certified specialists with wide range of skills in information security and informational technologies, as well as business intelligence, and project managers, who have experience in protection implementation as part of complex informational support projects, work in this center. Softline Information Security Center has all required information protection certificates. Since 2009 it has specialized direction on personal data security, as well as the discipline on data leakage protection system (DLP).
Softline company has a number of Competence Centers, which assist in selection of the software for maximal efficiency and costs reduction during these program products implementation. CAD Solutions Center helps to analyze the existing design technologies, define the most effective hardware/software solutions, and develop the concept of CAD advance in the future. Softline Virtualization Center provides customers with expert assistance in selection, design, construction and maintenance of virtual IT-infrastructure. Citrix Competence Center has many qualified and certified specialists who have experience in provision of services in the area of construction and maintenance of access infrastructures on the base of Citrix products. Softline company is the exclusive distributor of MathWorks company in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan, and MathWorks Competence Center provides the wide range of services on engineering software of MathWorks (MATLAB and Simulink product line). Microsoft Solutions Center is the Softline company department, founded for the promotion of Microsoft advanced technologies and provision of consulting services in the area of construction and management of IT-infrastructure on the base of Microsoft solutions.
Softline Services is the Softline company department, integrated a number of Competence Centers for the purpose of provision of complex IT-services for creation of reliable and effective IT-infrastructure, which is cost-effective for the customer.
Softline Training Center (http://edu.softline.ru) is the top training center in the corporative market of educational services, advanced training and certification of IT-specialists, which is nationally accredited and licensed for educational activities. Softline Training Center has 17 authorizations from global software manufacturers. There are Prometric, Certiport Testing centers on the base of Softline Training center. Besides, all trainees can pass exams on the most popular disciplines: Microsoft, Kaspersky Lab, Dr.Web, IBM, Hewlett Packard, CompTIA, Sun Microsystems and many others. At the present time the Softline Training Center catalog consists of over 300 courses, more than 60 certified trainers provide trainings. Softline Training Center has 29 offices on the territory of the Russian Federation, CIS countries and abroad.
Since 2007 the Training Center is the partner of SkillSoft company (ready-to-pass courses of e-learning, virtual Knowledge Centers and Library 24х7). Softline e-learning (http://edu.softline.ru/elearning.php) is the remote training on the base of new informational technologies and multimedia systems. Softline Training center provides corporative clients with the full range of services in the area of the remote training: the most popular courses on various disciplines in the remote format; delivery and implementation of remote training systems (RTS); lease of the hosting for virtual meetings and seminars conducting; content development; collections of ready-to-pass courses from global leaders; consulting.
Softline Academy (www.it- academy.ru) is the academic program for higher educational institutions intended to provide their students with the most actual and qualitative training on informational technologies. The program is available for all interested higher educational institutions of Russia and CIS. Softline IT Academy is the partner of Microsoft on the Microsoft IT Academy program. At the present time there is a network of Academies, created together with leading traditional and technologic Russian universities. The main task of Softline Academies is to help students to gain additional knowledge and skills, highly in-demand at the IT-market, as well as to prepare for tests for international certificate of IT-professional. Softline Academy advances the initiative “I am a citizen of Electronic Russia”™, supports Softline Childran's Computer School and national testing and certification system Alltests.
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Softline Solutions company was founded in 2003, and today it achieves the leading positions in the market of implementation of ERP-, CRM- and BI-systems in Russia. Softline Solutions company is the Gold Partner of SAP company, as well as it has statuses of Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and Oracle Certified Partner. Softline Solutions provides consulting services for small and medium enterprises on solutions of SAP, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Oracle CRM On Demand. The company supports web-sites www.BusinessOne.ru, www.MSCRM.ru and www.crmsaas.ru, where it is possible to find questions about business efficiency improvement using informational technologies and building the intelligent relationships with customers. Additionally, the Softline Solutions team creates unique solutions on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform in view of business characteristics, which enables our customers to reduce essentially their expenses and improve products and services quality.
Softline Employment (http://employment.softline.ru) provides the services of personnel consulting. Softline Employment company specializes in selection of personnel of mid-level and top management. Since 2005 projects on searching for specialists of the following disciplines are implemented: informational technologies, telecommunications, finances and accounting, banks and investments, raw materials extraction and processing and sales.
Softline Legal Support (www.sam- audit.ru) is the department of Softline group of companies, providing services in the area of legal support of the software management – Software Asset Management (SAM): software audit, software management strategy development, legal support of the software management.
Softline Consulting Services (www.slconsulting.ru) specializes in the implementation of high end systems of corporative communications tools, of information management and informational interaction for large corporate clients. Solutions offered by Softline Consulting Services are targeted on business processes productivity improvement and include the Unified Communications&Mobility, Collaboration and Enterprise Content Management (ECM). The result of this consulting department is the creation and successful implementation of corporative portal DeskWork in various enterprises.
Softline Search solutions center (http://google.softline.ru) provides consulting services of selection of optimal search solution and its integration into customer‘s infrastructure, as well as its technical support. Softline company is the first and the only provider of Google Search Appliance and Google Mini search servers in Russia as part of the Google Enterprise Partner program.
Competence center on web-communications of Softline company helps to select the web- communications solution on Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro or Microsoft Office Communications Server platform, which is exactly matched to the customer’s problems, as well as implements selected solutions, consults on all questions, connected with their use, trains users and provides the technical support. The site Avirta.ru provides information about tools and services for virtual meetings and events, as well as about remote training systems.
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SLTV is the new channel of communication with software users. There are expert, analytical, news exclusive video materials on topics related to the software licensing, implementation and technical support, IT-training, IT-consulting, trends and prospects of software market development. SLTV is the broadcasting and producing company.
Софт@Mail.Ru (http://soft.mail.ru) is one of the oldest resources dedicated to informational technologies in Russian internet, common project of Softline company and the largest internet-portal Mail.Ru. Monthly audience of Софт@Mail.Ru grows constantly and by January 2010 it equaled 1.8 million of users. The most popular sections are the Catalog of Free and Shareware Programs, Informational- discussion Section of Soft-club and the Community of System Administrators.
Educational mathematical site Exponenta.ru (http://exponenta.ru) is the unified online-space for those who use math packages in educational and scientific activities. Exponenta.ru holds competitions of methodological developments and students’ works, it also provides the free hosting for placement of authoring natural-scientific sites and sites about scientific software.
Softcloud.ru (www.softcloud.ru) is the first Russian portal, providing clients with wide choice of SaaS- solutions, and developers with a full SaaS promotion and sales cycle. Softcloud.ru portal is created using program platforms of leading global manufacturers of cloud solutions. The hosting in the high-level distributed DPC network provides the availability and security of services both in Russia and abroad.
Web-shop of gift certificates daripodarki.ru (http://daripodarki.ru) has been working in the gift market in the segment of gift certificates for corporative clients and individuals for more than 4 years. The shop’s assortment is more than 600 gift certificates of various nominal values from more than 90 providers. These certificates are accepted in 198 cities of Russia.
Bookee (www.bookee.ru) is the national system of electronic books distribution, one of implemented projects of Softline Venture Partners Fund, received investments in August 2009. This is a unique system, enabling to search for electronic books, form own library and read books on various devices using the shell program called bookee. Electronic books in bookee system have special format, which minimizes the possibility of their illegal distribution. In 2010 the bookee system will be available not only for Microsoft Windows platform, but also for Linux and Mac OS X, and then for all popular mobile platforms.
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Softline Venture Partners (www.softlinevp.ru) project started in December 2008, and during the year of work the experts of venture direction of Softline company, more than 300 projects were examined and 2 companies were financed — the bookee electronic books distribution system and interactive video platform called Actio. The main goal of Softline Venture Partners is venture funding of independent software developers in the territory of the Russian Federation, CIS and other world countries, where Softline company exists. In addition to the funding, Softline Venture Partners provides developers with opportunity to use unique options of Softline in the area of distribution and marketing. The volume of investments to one project is up to $ 1.000.000; however we are ready to review interesting projects with required investments and beyond this range.
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In 2009 Softline company released its own development — the corporative portal DeskWork, based on the long experience of portal solutions implementation. The corporative portal DeskWork (http://www.deskwork.ru) is the convenient tool of personnel interaction and organization of team work in any company. Due to DeskWork the labor productivity is increased in a minimum of time and with minimal budget, as the necessary information retrieving is essentially accelerated and business processes of creation and execution of orders of different types are automated. Adjustable modules of electronic document management enable to save personnel’s time due to the controllable, error-free process of harmonization of documents. By the beginning of 2010 more than 300 companies and state organizations started using DeskWork in their work.
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