Penza, 15 May 2014. PenzaNews. Service “Web-conference” by Rostelekom is actively used in the Penza region for training in the field of public procurement.

One of the first to start using it was autonomous non-profit organization of additional education “Center “Znanie” [Knowledge].

Cloud technology was introduced in March 2014, since then the company has organized distance learning and training of over 40 specialists in the field of public procurement working in state enterprises of the region.

According to the deputy director of the center Elena Petrova, the service “Web-videoconference” was indispensable to the company.

“We organized trainings, which involved teachers from other cities. Videoconferencing has already taken place with Saransk and Moscow. Customers are very satisfied — they prefer taking courses at their workplaces, while saving time and money on travel. Our customers find this convenient and advantageous from a financial point of view,” she said.

In turn, the commercial director of Penza branch of OJSC Rostelekom Igor Krivoperstov reminded that the company offers a whole complex of services based on the National cloud platform in the Penza region.

“This is a ready-made solution for the automation of business processes — “Customer Relationship Management,” “Warehouse Management - My warehouse,” “1C,” as well as infrastructure (“Virtual Data Center”) and communication solutions (“Web-Conference”). The main advantages of cloud services are reduction of capital costs for creating hardware infrastructure and substantial savings on software maintenance,” he explained.

Services of National cloud platform are placed and operate in data centers of OJSC Rostelekom and are based on the virtualization system developed on the basis of the software with open source.

The company provides a full cycle of maintenance services — from introduction to support.