Positioning of Borlas rests upon two postulates: on the one hand, we are a consultant company, on the other hand, we are a company, which determines business goals of the project together with the Customer and implements them. Such combination of the classic model of business consultant and model of IT project company fits to the best advantage the so called «descending model of project business», which has become, according to the estimations of analysts, a hit of the last years at the developed markets.

The term «descending model of project business» underlines direction of movement: from management consulting, via applications and their integration, to the supporting IT and other infrastructure, and allows to avoid the drawbacks, inherent in the business model of a IT project company (systems integrator), as well as in the business model of a classic consultant. Unlike the «ascending model», followed by the majority of project IT companies, this model allows to guarantee conformity of the implemented solutions with the actual business goals of the customer company. The capability to realize its recommendations in the actual result favorably distinguishes the «descending model» from the business model of a classic consulting company.

Opinion of analysis centre «REAL IT»

The essence of this model is «top-down» implementation, starting with formation of precise business goals of the project, elaboration of the mostly effective tools for their attainment, and finishing with the implementation of a planned project or program of projects.

We call such projects «Business projects with IT component» and promote them as the main complex product of the company. Working within the framework of a single project, all the trends of Borlas activities (listed in the section «Solutions and services») produce synergetic effect for the achievement of business aims.

Success of such projects lies in the principal combination of:

For this aim, apart from professionalism of consultants and project managers, we set up and successfully use a project quality management system, conforming to the best world standards and certified for conformity with the requirements of ISO 9001:2000 standard. We use a complex of business applications Oracle E-Business Suite for automation of internal business processes of Borlas Group, above all, for project management.

Due to increasing competition in the main economy sectors, more and more companies tend to concentrate on the main business, in order to fully realize its competitive potential, resorting to the services of specialized exterior companies to ensure auxiliary functions.

In this sense own IT divisions are almost always supporting, non-profile, that is why increasing and still unsatisfied demand for the services of outsourcing the operation of corporate IT systems has recently become one of the main trends. This challenge of the market brought about re-orientation of IT project companies to the process model of service rendering, which allows to take upon itself all the works on support and development of corporate IT systems of customer companies.

Borlas is the pioneer at the market of CIS countries in the field of promoting this very approach. So, for instance, one of the first outsourcing companies in Russia and CIS, JSC Satellite-Service, was established together with JSC Uralkaliy in Permian region and has been successfully working since then. Development of the outsourcing trend in operation of corporate IT systems was followed by the establishment of outsourcing center in Sverdlovsk region, which should result in bug-free replicate business model of rendering outsourcing services, and will allow us in the future to deploy a network of outsourcing centers on the federal scale.