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Igor Borovikov

Igor Borovikov, Softline’s founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors, was born in 1964 in Shuya, a city from the Ivanovo region in Russia. He studied engineering, mathematics and physics at the Moscow State University, where he graduated in 1986, just before coursing a PhD on physics and mathematics, which he finished in 1989, at the same university.

Igor is married and has five children. He has many hobbies and passions but he’s mostly interested in sculpture, philosophy and psychology.

In 1993, Igor created Softline with a team of just 10 people. Today, more than 25 years later, the company has 6,000 worldwide employees, and operates in over 50 countries around the world, focusing mostly on emerging markets. Softline is a leading international provider of solutions for digital transformation, cloud computing services, information security and related solutions.

Thanks to our collaboration with over 6,000 global technology providers, Softline has already helped more than 150,000 small, medium and large organizations. Since its inception, the company has achieved a turnover of US$ 1.8 billion in the fiscal year of 2020, increasing its turnover by an average of 25% per annum over the past 15 years. Softline is currently one of the fastest growing companies in its industry, and in October 2021, the company conducted a successful public offering of its depositary receipts on the London and Moscow stock exchanges.

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Softline Migrates Onninen IT Infrastructure to the Cloud

Onninen is an industrial equipment supplier working with production and construction companies. It employs more than 3.000 people in 8 countries. Onninen found itself needing its IT systems restructured as a result of organizational changes to its Russian business division. It was important to enable continuous operation of their services and business processes. The management ordered migration of a part of corporate IT resources to the cloud.

ENTERPRISE-WIDE TRANSFORMATION TO MICROSOFT SOLUTION FOR A MALAYSIAN AUTOMOBILE MNC

The customer is an investment holding company with principal activities include motor vehicle assembly and distribution, auto parts manufacturing, property, education, trading and motor-related financial services – both locally, Malaysia, and abroad in 5 other SEA countries.

Hardware Delivery for Hilton Garden Inn Volgograd

Hilton Garden Inn is a brand of Hilton, one of the largest hotel chains with over 5,000 hotels in 103 countries and regions. When the client was opening a new hotel in Volgograd, it was necessary to deliver the equipment meeting the corporate standards to all rooms, conference halls, and for all employees.

Technical support of the Carlsberg Group IT service management platform in the Eastern Europe region

To process the requests of customers via the hotline in the Eastern Europe region, Baltika Breweries, a part of Carlsberg Group, used the ServiceNow IT service management automation system. Softline was the company responsible for the implementation and technical support of this system.

E-Document Flow Modernization in GM-AVTOVAZ

The launch of a Microsoft SharePoint-based system has considerably simplified the complex non-linear process of approval of various types of contracts. With this system, it has become easier to find bottlenecks and correctly redistribute the tasks between employees. The document approval process has become more transparent and manageable.

Maximize your Business Growth with Microsoft Azure

We are working with the customer on their additional Azure workloads such as BCDR and Application Modernization. They are exploring Microsoft Dynamics 365 Human Resources. Total Voice is also a best fit for the customer.

SOFTLINE MALAYSIA EMERGED AND WON AN ISLAMIC BANK BUSINESS TRUST

One of the 1st Islamic banks in Malaysia with more than 10,000 employees nationwide, was requesting a renewal of their Microsoft licensing on The Server and Cloud Enrollment (SCE) under Enterprise Agreement licensing. SCE offers customer to standardize broadly on one or more of the four Microsoft server and cloud technologies. Softline stood out among other 5 Microsoft licensing solution providers (LSP) and successfully won this project.

THAILAND FASTEST GROWING RETAIL COMPANY ADVANCED TO OFFICE 365 TO THRIVE IN BUSINESS

A fastest-growing retail company in Thailand embraces technology solutions for its business operations and expansion. With its mission of becoming the largest retail network in ASEAN and servicing more than 100,000 stores, this customer required reliable tech-enabled business solutions.

Everise selects Softline to improve efficiency and security of their business solutions environment

Softline moves 4,000 desktops to a secured work-from-home environment in 72 hours for Everise. Softline optimizes Everise’s Microsoft Azure platform to reduce OPEX. The leading CX company increased data security with Microsoft Intune.

Softline Implements Microsoft System Center in a leading Costa Rican Construction Company

Softline has successfully implemented a Microsoft System Center 2016 project in Constructora Meco, a leading Costa Rican construction company. As a result of the project, the client has improved IT infrastructure management with prompt technical support.

Softline Philippines has been chosen by Top Enterprise Customer as their It consultant

One by one, we are engaging with the 30+ companies to help them in their technology journey which includes but not limited to cloud, security, data, and graphics.

Softline Improved Corporate Portal of Bank of Chile

Implemented with joint efforts of Softline specialists from Argentina and Chile, a new service in the portal of the Bank of Chile helps employees using IT services.

Softline made unified communications for Eastern & Oriental Berhad

As the leader in promoting luxury living as a lifestyle experience, E&O has a proven track record in delivering excellence. Meeting and exceeding customer satisfaction is a key factor in its continued success

A Way to the Internet of Things for Machinery Manufacturer MCS Kollmorgen

Our customer MCS Kollmorgen leveraged always-on connectivity of industrial machine controllers installed in their machinery to control equipment at any time and optimize technicians’ visits on site. Procewssing and stroring data at Microsoft Azure the client manages to have a full history of the industrial machinery that they operate throughout Brazil.

Efficient Software Assets Management for Bonduelle-Kuban

The Russian branch of Bonduelle has a geographically-distributed infrastructure with plants in Krasnodar region and office in Moscow. Before the project, each business unit independently bought necessary Microsoft licenses following the Open License model. The SAM project became a necessity because the company wanted to assess the existing software contracts and choose a more flexible licensing model.

Softline has provided a cloud for the promotion of major players in the global media market

Softline specialists provided the customer with a cloud-based hosting based on Microsoft Azure.The test assessed the stability of the storage, the availability of certain types of content, the ability to download from different devices and with different parameters. After that, the cloud infrastructure was put into operation.

Softline Analyzed IT-Infrastructure of ManpowerGroup Russia & CIS

ManpowerGroup Russia & CIS provides workforce management solutions and services. The IT Department of the company needed to make an infrastructure audit, reveal the potential data security risks, and assess the correctness of IT asset management.

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"Two factors contributed to the success of the project. First, deep involvement of business customers of this solution - the employees of the financial department. Second, a true expertise of colleagues from Softline in budgeting, which helped them communicate with the customer in the same language. Due to using the MCaaS model, the employees of the IT department can focus on specific business tasks without wasting time on administering the basic IT infrastructure".

Dmitry Fedorov, Head of Information Technology Department of Castorama

"With IoT, the devices expose the local network, then security counts so that the user is not afraid to connect the machines. Our migration to Windows 10 added value when it came to more efficient graphics and too when talking about security. Furthermore, the 10-year warranty of the system given by Microsoft is the certainty of market longevity".

Edson Casagrande, R&D at MCS Kollmorgen

"We have received an IT infrastructure management tool that allows not only to control the state of IT services, but, in addition quickly makes necessary changes. It is very important for us to provide remote consulting on technical support requests within the shortest terms. Local mobile device management is another important product benefit: it simplifies maintenance using the tools built into device operating systems".

Diego Piedra, Server and Network Equipment Maintenance Manager

“As a result of effective interaction with our IT-specialists short terms of equipment supply was guaranteed, which enabled to equip the hotel before its opening and provide the personnel, guests of the hotel, restaurant and bar, as well as partners, holding meetings at our conference-platforms, with modern equipment from reliable manufacturers”.

Aleksey Labzin, IT-specialist of Hilton Garden Inn Volgograd

“ServiceNow platform development marks yet another step to formulating a service-based approach to address business objectives at our facilities and towards an efficient management of key processes at the company-wide scale”.

Hermann Epstein, IT Vice President, Eastern Europe Region, Baltika Breweries, Part of the Carlsberg Group.

"Migrating the bulk of IT services into the cloud allowed preserving good working order of the infrastructure during the reorganization, ensuring interactions of the company's business units and functioning of the ERP system, and cutting its maintenance costs".

Denis Grekov, Technical Support Lead, Onninen

Thanks to the help of Softline specialists, we were able to create the cloud infrastructure and to provide users with access to digital content as quickly as possible . Simplified payment management and the ability to store virtually unlimited files allow to use the available IT resources as efficiently as possible. We plan to scale the solution depending on the type and amount of shares in Russia and abroad, and also to attract key rightholders to increase the efficiency of distribution and create new models of mutually beneficial cooperation.

Nukri Basharuli, Chief Executive Officer, Aggregion

"The information provided by the specialists of Softline, allow us managing the licenses in Microsoft software efficiently. The recommendations given as a result of the inspection following the method SAM CyberSecurity, shall help us to improve the information security assurance for IT-resources".

Andrey Yudkin, Information Technologies Director in ManpowerGroup Russia & CIS (in Russia and the CIS)

"Upon completion of the project, our experts were able to administer IT services independently from their Vietnamese colleagues. Softline specialists ensured the smooth interaction of all components, which allowed us to optimize the costs of maintaining the IT infrastructure performance, simplify administering processes and ensure prompt access to the necessary data".

Mr. Simuch Im, Head of IT Grant Thornton in Cambodia