IT cluster resident Comindware has secured a 29.7 million ruble grant from the Skolkovo Foundation to develop an all-encompassing software solution for streamlining management processes within companies.
Comindware, which provides computer-based management solutions to help businesses perform more efficiently, has raised the same amount in private investment – a key requirement of Skolkovo’s grant allocation process.
The aim is to use the money to go global by launching a broad software product known as Comindware Management Platform.
“It’s precisely the opportunity to compete in the global marketplace with the world’s leading companies that is the key stimulus to growth and innovation,” said company founder Maxim Tsyplyaev.
“Due to successful international experience and understanding that technologies are not effective when you focus only on one certain territory, the Comindware team has given itself the task of entering the global IT market,” he added.
The Comindware team is ideally placed to boost the company to international heights, boasting staff that hail from established global firms such as Acronis, Parallels and Kaspersky Labs.
Its new product, Comindware Management Platform, unites several solutions already on sale and will be available in the second half of 2016.
“By September we’ll have developed the single platform package, which includes a group of programs for managing processes, a package for managing projects, a package for social networking and a package for integrating with Microsoft Sharepoint and Office,” Tsyplyaev said.
“The second stage, from October 2015 through March 2016, will see the creation of the alpha version of the product in two supply packages: for installation on a server and a cloud version that includes mobile clients for Andoird and iOS,” he added.
Comindware claims to enhance individual, team and corporate performances, which it says is increasingly important in crowded marketplaces where the narrowest advantage often determines the winner.
Sergei Khodakov, the cluster’s IT security expert, said the product has a slew of advantages over currently available software.
“The idea to unite project and process activity into a single platform has not yet been realized by a single market player,” he said. “That said, there is no doubt that such solutions will be in great demand from big business.”