Analysts at hh.ru have summarized the results of the spring labor market in the IT sector of St. Petersburg. The data shows that, despite a decrease in the overall demand for specialists, salaries in the industry continue to grow. However, companies are now looking not just for "IT professionals," but for professionals with specific skills and experience.
The operator "VimpelCom" (Beeline brand) has started closed testing of Beeline Cloud 2.0. The platform is currently undergoing final configuration. In the near future, it is planned to launch the platform for commercial operation and provide customers with access to a full-fledged cloud stack built on modern principles.
As part of the "Innovator's Day," the guild "Frontiers of Science" invested 10 million rubles in the Russian service "POVUZAM," which helps schoolchildren and applicants choose a university to enter. The official check presentation ceremony took place in Moscow. The funds received will be used to develop the platform: connecting new universities, expanding into regions, developing interactive tour formats, technical improvements, and expanding the team.
VK Tech has launched VK Budgeting, a financial platform for building enterprise performance management solutions. The platform enables the creation of a unified management accounting system for individual business lines, companies, or holdings.
A new version of UserGate's own operating system has been released. The innovations in UGOS 7.3 are aimed at increasing the specialization of solutions, their reliability, and flexibility in corporate environments.
The online hotel booking service is preparing a new opportunity for hoteliers and owners of short-term rental properties. They will be able to choose specific periods in which they want to increase the position of their property.
The changes affected Calendar, Messenger, Wiki, Tracker, and Boards - with a focus on mobile scenarios, material navigation, and workflow automation.
Any group chat can now be turned into a channel. The new feature is available to the administrator in the chat settings. Switching also works in the opposite direction - any channel can be converted into a group chat format.
On April 22, the InfraROS Award Ceremony for achievements in the field of infrastructure and spatial development of Russia took place. The award was established in 2025 to recognize companies, initiatives, and solutions that make a significant contribution to the implementation of the national project "Infrastructure for Life."
In the spring of 2025, the LG educational marathon "Creating the Future of Communications" became a large-scale platform, uniting mentoring, art, volunteering, and donation. It brought together spring activities under the auspices of the Baltic Educational Marathon and the 117th LG Electronics Donor Day with honorary guests, a family couple of outstanding people: Olympic figure skating champion, Roman Kostomarov with his wife Oksana Domnina (world champion in ice dancing), whose story of devotion, immense strength of spirit embodies the victory over circumstances.
A group of major IT investors plans to invest several billion rubles in creating a production facility for industrial controllers based on the Penza-based enterprise Electromechanics Atom LLC (EMA). This was reported by an Interfax source.
The new generation of ViPNet SafeBoot trusted boot module can be integrated into ARM-based systems. The module is certified in accordance with the requirements of the FSB of Russia and the FSTEC of Russia.
"Basis" became the title sponsor of the Moscow robotics team "Atom", one of the leaders of the international championship "Battle of Robots". The cooperation is aimed at developing engineering competencies in Russia.
Elektroresheniya, the official representative of the EKF brand in Russia, is launching an improved version of the ePRO24 controller — ePRO24 Omni. This controller allows you to remotely control household and industrial devices, integrating them into the EKF Connect Home smart home system and the EKF Connect Industry industrial IIoT platform. It also serves as a data gateway for equipment with a Modbus RTU interface.
OCS analysts noted that IT integrators use 70-80% of domestic brands' solutions for their regional projects. At the federal level, the share of Russian products ranges from 50 to 60%. The popularity of local solutions in the regions is largely due to the demand structure: a significant portion of orders comes from government institutions and enterprises with state participation. In addition, many industrial and infrastructure customers fall under the requirements of CII and are therefore focused on domestic technologies.
MTS operator announced the launch of Membrana private mobile communication service for corporate users. Membrana B2B mobile application protects company employees from cybercriminals, their digital footprint and privacy, provides the ability to create additional numbers, track data leaks, and so on.
Elektroresheniya, the official representative of the EKF brand in Russia, showcased the TERACOM line of telecommunication equipment at the Securika Moscow 2025 exhibition. Visitors were able to explore cloud solutions: EKF Connect Home - a mobile application for smart homes, and EKF Connect Industry - an IIoT platform for monitoring, managing, and analyzing data from automation systems.
Yandex B2B Tech, the corporate division of Yandex, has launched open-source visual-generative models (VLM) on its proprietary ML platform that simultaneously analyze images and text. With VLM models such as Deepseek VL2 Tiny and Gemma3 27B, companies will be able to create product descriptions from photos and quickly find the information they need in documents.
Astra Group, together with Axiom JDK and Haulmont, has released the first version of the independent Russian OpenIDE development environment. This is a free open source tool without proprietary components, designed for professional Java programmers and ready for use in real projects.
New tools have become available in Yandex Direct for brand promotion. Advertisers can launch advertising campaigns in video content that users watch on smart TVs.
The new MTS Web Services (MWS) solution for distributed team collaboration is called TeamStream. The service reduces correspondence and call time by 35%, replacing them with video messages.
The Multifactor multi-factor authentication service has become available in the ActiveCloud portfolio of SaaS services. The solution will protect against cyber threats and strengthen the corporate security system of customers, complementing cloud services from ActiveCloud.
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Key Moments and Latest Trends at the 19th Exhibition-Forum for Industry Professionals
The "Basis" company announces the release of an update to the Basis Dynamix Cloud Control platform for integrated management of cloud infrastructure. Release 5.1 includes more than 30 improvements that expand the capabilities of the solution in terms of managing infrastructure (IaaS) and platform (PaaS) services, including automation of routine operations.
Test IT, a business unit of "Develonica" (Softline Group), has released a major update to its eponymous test management platform. The key update to TMS in version 5.3 Reticulum is integration with AI models YandexGPT and GigaChat. According to the developers, the AI functionality can reduce the time to generate test scenarios by an average of 30%, and for initial test analysis by 50%.
SBK Company has released a major update with more than 70 functional changes and new features. The update package includes a redesigned web interface, security improvements, and enhanced integration capabilities. CommuniGate Pro version 6.5 has already been included in the Unified Register of Russian Software of the Ministry of Digital Development of Russia.
A new media format has appeared in Avito Advertising for the main page of the branded Rabota service. It is designed to increase brand awareness as an employer.
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"Electrosolutions", the official representative of the EKF brand in Russia, presented current developments for oil and gas industry enterprises at the "Neftegaz 2025" exhibition.
Ransomware has become one of the main threats to data loss and the shutdown of critical processes in organizations of all sizes and industries.
Tochka Bank for entrepreneurs has introduced a new service based on artificial intelligence - a website generator that allows you to create a landing page in just 5 minutes. The solution is designed for self-employed individuals, freelancers, small businesses, and experts who want to quickly establish themselves on the Internet without involving developers and designers.