Update of state support

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In mid-July, the Ministry of Finance, on the instructions of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, prepared a report proposing to allocate 11 billion rubles from the Reserve Fund for the development of the high-tech areas of “New Industrial Software” (NIS) and “New General System Software” (NOS).

The IT industry has been in the focus of special attention of the Russian government for the last few years, and with the departure of Western vendors, the support has become content writing service unprecedented. By 2024, investments of state companies and state corporations in domestic software will amount to more than 922 billion rubles, predicted Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Chernyshenko at the Data Fusion conference in the spring.

Such investments should contribute to the development and strengthening of the position of the domestic IT industry in the global market, noted Hopper IT Development Director Sergey Radchenko in a conversation with RSpectr.




Market participants note that the implementation of mature Russian software is uneven in different industries: in some, vendors successfully replace foreign solutions, while in others, they do not find a response from customers. According to experts, assistance from the state is tangible and is already yielding results, but the situation requires a more detailed approach in a number of areas.

A year ago, the Ministry of Digital Development launched a page on “Gosuslugi” that presented a catalog of 12 blocks of state support: tax breaks, preferential loans, grants, demand stimulation, preferential mortgages, military deferment, exemption from inspections, employment of foreigners, inclusion in registers, accreditation, IT education and attracting financing.

The most effective measures of state support at the moment are: a reduced rate of insurance premiums, zero income tax and no VAT for products included in the list of Russian software, noted Sergey Chukanov, CEO of SimpleOne, in a conversation with RSpectr.

Since 2021, it has been extremely important to accelerate product development so that customers' transition to Russian solutions is as comfortable as possible, Elena Bocherova, executive director of Cyberprotect, told RSpectr. The company has managed to more than double its staff, most of whom are engaged in the development of IT solutions, and provide them with decent conditions, including through tax incentives that have reduced the burden on the payroll.

Market participants note the synergistic effect and timeliness of government support

Elena Bocherova, "Cyberprotect":

– For example, in the backup and data protection segment, a significant part of the market has become free. This allows us to occupy it, and reinvest additional income into the development of new areas and attract more developers to the staff.

Representatives of government agencies and market experts have generally noted an active transition of organizations to Russian software. If in 2021, purchases of domestic software solutions amounted to almost 60 billion rubles in monetary terms, then in 2022 they reached 102 billion, Ilya Massukh, director of the Competence Center for Import Substitution in Information and Communication Technologies (CIT), reported in April at the annual meeting of the Association of Software Developers (ARPP) "Domestic Software".