Development of an automated information system for the document flow of a medical institution. History and development trends of the 1C Accounting program Who created the 1c program
In 1975 he entered the Moscow State University Economics, Statistics and Informatics (MGUESI), in the second year he began working in the specialty "Automated Control Systems" in the research laboratory at the institute.
In 1980, Boris graduated from the institute and stayed to work as an engineer at the university, where he created computer-aided database design systems for domestic factories and conducted a workshop on the course "Fundamentals of Database Design". In 1987, he moved to NIPIstatinform of the USSR State Statistics Committee as a senior researcher and gradually rose to the head of the self-supporting department. There he created an "electronic teletype", allowing you to connect personal computers instead of networked electromechanical boxes, and then began to trade them.
Once, returning from Yakutia, Boris saw that another Yakut state company had placed an order for a teletype. But he didn't want to go back. Then Nuraliev offered a local engineer to do the work for half the cost of the program. The engineer readily agreed. The entrepreneur realized that people willingly agree to work on such conditions, and that this should be used. At the end of the year, specialists in electronic teletypes were already all over the Soviet Union and sold more than 6,000 boxes with the program.
In 1991, Nuraliev founded the 1C company. A year later, the first accounting program "1C: Accounting" appeared, which was originally an auxiliary software for working with accounting. "1C: Accounting" was written by Boris's brother Sergey Nuraliev. He worked in the company as an accountant, and he was tired of paperwork. Seeing the program, Boris wanted to distribute it.
Boris Nuraliev at SPIEF 2017. Source: tadviser.ru
In 1994, the 1C company developed the 1C: Enterprise program. To date, this product is the company's best-selling product. In the same year, remembering the success with the distribution of teletype programs, Nuraliev began to develop franchising. Now the entrepreneur believes that this was one of his best business decisions.
In addition to 1C: Enterprise, the company has developed the 1C: Tutor, 1C: School series, the 1C: Bitrix web project management system, as well as the Prince and Il-2 Sturmovik computer games. In addition to software development, the company organizes the marketing of foreign and domestic programs for the mass market.
Boris Nuraliev and Sergey Belousov are the founders of Acronis. Source: crn.ru
Nuraliev also invests in the educational direction. The company has created a network of partner training centers. According to Nuraliyev, they teach 75,000 adults in these centers, and now they are actively undertaking to involve children in programming as well.
Quotes:
Ideas are nothing, execution is everything. In Russia, ideas are always abundant. I myself have a list of 1.6 thousand ideas. Chose an idea - and peck. The key is relentless perseverance. Feeling is also important. Feel the idea: it will pass - it will not pass, what needs to be corrected?
No matter how valuable and talented a person is, if he is a bastard in his soul, it is better not to have anything to do with him. When I assembled my very first team - it was still at the design institute of the USSR State Statistics Committee - I took only acquaintances and those whom they recommended. Those who could solve the necessary tasks, whom I trusted and with whom it was comfortable to interact.
Information technology is an industry where you can't just sit down and wait it out. In IT, everything changes very quickly, and you need to quickly push everything. At the same time, it is important to maintain the stability and image of a stable company.
materialsQuality is a complex category. Here is a copywriter, he was ordered a text - he writes, he cares about quality. And there is a writer, for example, JK Rowling, who wrote about Harry Potter - the whole world reads. Was she thinking about "quality" when she wrote? She created, realized her talent. The development of circulation software, which is used by millions, is a very creative process, rather a matter of life than a question of price / quality.
Introduction.
Perhaps, in Russia there is not a single user of a personal computer who would not be, one way or another, familiar with the products of the 1s company.
I myself, since childhood, have been communicating with the products of this company, more precisely, with the products of the Buka company absorbed by 1C, which was engaged in the distribution and creation of games in the post-Soviet space. Recall the famous game "Trucker", which is now impossible to play even for one minute - on modern computers it just "flies" and pressing the key to the right or left leads to a departure from the track.
In the future, I grew up, and already while studying at the university, I got acquainted with 1c software packages. Nevertheless, despite the variety of different products, the enterprise paid the most attention to the 1c product. It’s not that I would be doing there, no matter what the calculations were, no - I had to carry out on duty at a temporary job.
Now I don’t play games anymore and don’t work as an administrator, but I periodically have to deal with the 1c company - someone needs help installing a software package, and someone needs help in administration, someone just needs help with advice on purchasing.
Accompanying 1s throughout my life interested me very much. In Russia, I do not remember a single company in the IT industry that would also accompany me throughout my life. Naturally, the question arose of who and how succeeded and what is the success of 1s?
The origin and development of 1s.
The 1C company itself was born in 1991, that is, just after the first signs of a market economy appeared. Its founder is its permanent leader Boris Georgievich Nuraliev.
Boris Georgievich Nuraliev, before the creation of the 1s company, naturally went through all the "stages", like an ordinary Soviet citizen.
In 1980, Nuraliev graduated from the Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics. During his studies, he worked in the scientific laboratory of the institute in the field of "Automated Control Systems". Apparently, the prerequisites for the legendary 1s were laid even then.
After graduating from the university with honors, he stayed on as an engineer, and was engaged in the design of databases for the Soviet industry. He also organized practical courses - Fundamentals of database design.
In 1987, he moved to work at the design institute as a researcher, and soon took the position of head of the self-supporting department. Was held active work, had its own difficulties - in the form of deprivation of public funding.
But, apparently, the "economic vein" was already languishing in the head of 1c - in 1990, the self-supporting department signed a contract for the distribution of the Lotus 1-2-3 package. Let me remind you that this package was designed to work with spreadsheets.
In 1991, the company 1s was established. 1c was created to create a package of electronic exchange trading, but then was used to sell version 2.2 of Lotus 1-2-3 translated into Russian. Not every enterprise could afford to purchase this package - it was very expensive. But this did not prevent 1s from creating a network of dealers, through which 1s accounting products, etc., are still distributed.
By 1992, their own product was prepared, a prototype of 1s accounting. Its announcement was made at the Comtek exhibition in 1992, where Lotus 1-2-3 "tables" and its own product 1c were demonstrated. The history of the creation of 1s accounting is more mysterious than the creation of the company itself. The official developer of the source code is the brother of the head of the 1s company - Sergey Nuraliev, who worked part-time with his brother in accounting and developed an application for his own needs - a prototype of today's 1s accounting. The software product, even in the original edition, turned out to be quite successful - more than three hundred copies were sold on the floppy disks of the first releases.
In 1994, the head of 1c was closely involved in the distribution of products in the regions - he organizes franchising programs, which allows the dealer network to grow at a lower cost than competitors. By the way, this was the first person who advertised to his dealers by publishing an ad in a newspaper, which can be described as follows in terms of content: "1c accounting - can be bought at the following addresses: list of addresses." Now this approach can be considered banal, but then there were neither McDonald's nor chain stores that could set an example of successful advertising.
In 1996, the famous 1c enterprise package was released, which has its own huge history. The first versions, of course, were released for earlier operating systems, and only from 7.0 they were for Windows 95 and higher. Then there was a rather high-profile release of 1c enterprise 7.7 in 1999, which replaced the 1c enterprise 7.0 and 7.5 packages almost free of charge for the end user.
Now the main package is 1c enterprise 8, the programming language of which is incompatible with the previous 6 and 7 versions of the product.
1c also sells computer games. In this market, the company suffered its victories and failures. But, as you know, any victory comes after failures. The problems in this segment of the company began during the crisis of 1998, and the success was at the exhibition in Las Vegas, where the game "IL-2 Sturmovik" took the first place of honor, ahead of the game from Microsoft "Flight Simulator".
AT last years The company is actively developing, it has practically no competitors in the "accounting" market. In all universities, they try to teach work in software products 1c accounting, 1c enterprise, as they teach the basics of MS Windows in schools. Therefore, the company 1c is rightfully considered a domestic Microsoft.
This is also indicated by the tactics of recent actions on the market: one hundred percent takeover of Buk, which was engaged in the development of computer games, by 1s. And recently, in February 2009, the merger of 1c with another well-known company - the localizer, distributor of computer games "Soft Club".
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The history of 1C Enterprise begins back in 1991. The beginning of its development is as vague as that of many other domestic software of the early nineties.
Version history
The history of 1C begins in the early nineties - the first versions of 1C were released under DOS - these were 3.0, 4.0, 5.0. The principle of reflecting business transactions as “documents” is just beginning to emerge in them, the concept of “printing form” is being introduced. The first version of the built-in language appeared, which was used to edit postings in the system. Naturally, DOS versions did not gain much popularity in those days.
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The first version of 1C for Windows
In 1995, 1C began selling the next version of 1C Enterprise - 6.0. A program written for Windows becomes a real hit in its field. Perhaps only thanks to version 6.0, a huge number of accountants decided to start mastering the computer, in those years a home computer was an absolute rarity. 1C Accounting is sold throughout the country with great success. Basically, 1C has reached the current level thanks to a unique distribution system - a network of partner companies.
New level - 7.7
The next step in history was the new version released in 1998 for Windows 95 - 1C 7.0. This was a real breakthrough in its field. 1C Enterprise now has compatibility with MS SQL. A full-fledged configurator and debugger appear in 1C.
It would seem, what could be better than 7.7?
And in 2002, the version of 1C enterprise - 8.0 was born. The G8 differed from its predecessors in improved performance - 1C was preparing to compete with the world's giants in the field. New in 8 is a unique query language, data composition system, and more. Later there was version 8.1, which differed from its older brother in a completely redesigned client-server interaction system, the presence of web services, improved access control system, etc.
Exit 8.2
The release of platform 8.2 gave us new concepts in the field of 1C - a thin client, a web application. Now the system could work stably on narrow communication channels. And 1C looks especially beautiful in the browser. 8.2 also brought us a new metadata object - "External Data Sources", with which you can directly connect to third-party sources: sql databases, dbf, excel, etc.
Clouds and gadgets - new trends 8.3
The founder and permanent director of 1C is Boris Nuraliev.
Assets
Affiliate network
Subsidiaries and joint ventures
For June, 2015 more than 200 subsidiaries and joint ventures are a part of the 1C group. The 1C franchisee network exceeds 6,700 firms. The group's joint ventures include:
Some joint ventures 1C
№ | Name | Direction of activity |
1 | 1C-Rarus | Distribution / Sub-distribution, large implementations, industry solutions |
2 | 1С:North-West | Development of business and partner network in N-W federal district |
3 | 1C:Multimedia Yekaterinburg | Regional distribution of games and programs for the home |
4 | 1C-Rating | Development and distribution of applied solutions for Kazakhstan |
5 | 1C:Vietnam | Development and distribution of application solutions for Vietnam |
6 | 1С:Wireless | Development of programs for mobile phones |
7 | 1C-Bitrix | Typical site building system |
8 | 1C:UC3 | Training of specialists in 1C:Enterprise for partners |
9 | 1C-Softclub | Development, publishing, localization and distribution of computer and video games |
10 | 1C-Praton, 1C:BukhObsluzhivanie Stavropol | Provision of professional management services accounting under the brand name "1C:BukhObsluzhivanie" |
11 | 1CAir (1SiAir.ru) | Provision of the 1C:Enterprise system for rent. |
12 | 1C-KPD | Implementation of electronic document management systems and corporate portals |
13 | 1C-Gandalf, 1C-Profile, 1C-LadoMir, 1C-Ural Center, Prime Region, 1C-Galex, 1C-Forus, 1C-Central Siberia, 1C-Youmans, 1C-Yakutsk, 1C-Far East | Regional distributors |
14 | Alager | Distribution of computer equipment |
Part of our business model is joint ventures, there are about 200 of them. In total, they generate more revenue than the central 1C. Previously, we shared shares in legal entities 50/50, now we keep 51% for ourselves, and 49% for our partner, which allows us to fully attribute the success of joint ventures to the group of companies during consolidation under IFRS. At the same time, it is important for us to keep in entrepreneurs a sense of drive and steering in their hands - so that a person understands that this is his business and he is responsible. The role of the central "1C" in the joint venture is the task of a common strategy and the assistance that is necessary for the development of a joint business: money, advice, reputation, technology, space, contacts, access to the sales network.
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2019
Agreement with YarSU named after Demidov on strategic partnership in the field of personnel training
Agreement with Qiwi on joint development of IT solutions for fintech companies
2018
Creation of a joint venture with Galaktika
On July 30, 2018, the Russian developers of corporate information systems, the 1C company and the Galaxy Corporation, announced the creation of a joint venture with equal ownership shares. The main task of the created joint venture is to more effectively meet the needs of enterprises of the military-industrial complex, which consider it expedient to simultaneously use the 1C and Galaktika systems ().
Agreement with Sberbank on integration of products and services
1C buys a controlling stake in Smartway
On January 15, 2018 it became known of sale of a 51 percent share of Smartway to 1C company. The cost of the transaction is not disclosed, but an informed source of the Kommersant newspaper estimates it at 150 million rubles. Read more.
2017
Overview of TAdviser: What is the difference between approaches to doing business "1C" and "Galaktika"
Boris Nuraliev: Large enterprises are no longer embarrassed to implement "1C", now it's fashionable
Boris Nuraliev also noted that 1C has become fashionable. In this, he sees, among other things, the merit of import substitution. The director of 1C says that on this wave, large holdings have responsible for import substitution, who need to report.
At the same time, Nuraliyev points out, import substitution is not a key factor in choosing 1C solutions by customers in Russia: “in reality, no one will buy our systems just because they are domestic.”
From partner reports on almost 200 cases of choosing 1C ERP solutions instead of foreign ones in the period from 2015 to February 2017, it follows that in the first place are such factors as the cost of licenses, implementation and maintenance, compliance with the functionality of the price, the presence on the market of a large the number of 1C specialists and partners, said Boris Nuraliev.
The CEO of 1C told TAdviser that large customers do not occupy a very large share in the company's total revenue, since there are still relatively few of them.
At the same time, Nuraliev noted that 1C does not seek to move into the segment of large business: the company aims to cover the entire range of customers, including those small ones that it had not even worked with before. For the latter, in 2017, 1C released a special application, IP 6%, for filing tax returns, he said.
Creation of 1C International for growth in foreign markets
In May 2017, 1C announced the creation of a joint venture with Sergey Andreev, from 1999 to 2017. who served as the CEO of Abbyy. A new company called 1C International began developing and promoting the 1C:Enterprise product group (1C:Enterprise) in foreign markets. Sergey Andreev became its leader. Read more.
Falling under Ukrainian sanctions
On May 16, 2017, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko by his decree put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) on sanctions against Russian companies and their subsidiaries in Ukraine. In total, 468 legal entities were on the sanctions list, of which 81 are related to the IT sector. Among the companies that fell under the sanctions were the Russian and Ukrainian legal entities 1C and 1C Multimedia Ukraine, as well as a number of their major distributors and representatives in Ukraine: Eurosoftprom, Skyline Software, Sunline, 1s -Telur Module, Alfa-Com Soft, 1C-Rarus Soft Ukraine, First Bit, 1C. Read more.
The SBU announced the surveillance of Russian special services for Ukrainian companies with the help of 1C software
In addition, Oleksandr Tkachuk stated that the FSB could receive data from Ukraine using the Stakhanovets worker monitoring program. More about it.
2016
Revenue growth by 3.6%
In 2016 revenue of group of companies "1C" according to TAdviser made 37.300 billion rubles, having increased by 3.6% in relation to 2015. In the ranking at the end of 2016, the 1C group of companies took the 7th line.
Growth of sales of "1C: Enterprise" - 15.5% in rubles, growth of outsourcing
In 2016, the sales volume of the 1C group of companies with subsidiaries, joint ventures and retail enterprises, with the elimination of intra-group turnover, increased by 6%, said the founder and director of the company Boris Nuraliev at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in May 2017.
Sales of the key product "1C" in 2016 grew by 15.5%, Nuraliev said. At the same time, sales of licenses grew by 13%, and subscriptions and services - by 18%.
The director of the company also said that in 2016 the volume of sales of services and subscriptions for the first time in the history of 1C exceeded the volume of sales of licenses for 1C: Enterprise software, although the preponderance turned out to be insignificant. The bias towards services and the subscription model is also a global trend.
About 200 companies from 2015 to 2017 chose the 1C ERP solution instead of the "heavy" Western systems of a similar class, brought the data to 1C. The graph below shows that "1C: Enterprise" is receiving more and more implementations in large organizations with a large number of jobs.
1C:Enterprise implementations by number of jobs by years
“We used to offer our clients to automate their accounting, now we can automate their main activities (trade, production) and outsource fiscal accounting: accounting, taxes, payroll,” this is how Boris Nuraliev formulated a fundamentally new vector of movement for his company.
He recalled that 1C today is not only a leading developer, but also a recognized expert in the very subject area of accounting, including having developed a standard for the provision of accounting services. For several years now, the company has been developing two such outsourcing projects: 1C: Accounting Service (for small businesses) and 1C: Outsourcing, while developing a new partner network based on a well-established franchising model.
In 2016, among the leading suppliers of enterprise management information systems (ERP, etc.) in the Russian market, 1C ranks second with a share of 32.9%. Compared to 2015, it added 0.2%. The leader here is still SAP with a share of 49%. Microsoft has 8.8%, Oracle has 4%, Galaxy has 2.2%. Other players account for 3.2%.
Shares of suppliers in the Russian ERP / PMIS market by sales volume in US dollars in 2003-2016, %
Commenting in part on the modest increase in 1C's market share, despite the government's announced course for import substitution, Boris Nuraliev, head of 1C, emphasized that the study takes into account money in Russian currency.
“We have ruble prices, and in order to even just keep our share, we have to significantly increase sales in pieces,” he says.
1C became a co-owner of Quick Resto
In August 2016, 1C became part of the owners of the Quick Resto group of companies, having bought out a controlling stake. The details of the deal are in a separate article:
2013
1C is going to conquer foreign countries
1C develops and prepares for start the partner program for the international partners working outside the CIS countries, the founder and the director of 1C reported in the middle of June, 2013 Boris Nuraliev.
As part of the new program, 1C is ready to provide them with development tools, technical support and encourage partners to create their own products based on the 1C:Enterprise platform, as well as to promote them on the international market, he added.
It should be noted that 1C has been working in a number of far-abroad countries for several years. For example, since 2005 there has been an official representative office of the company in Germany, which, through partners, provides customers with services for the development of custom business applications based on 1C:Enterprise, licensing, installation and maintenance of 1C products in Europe.
Other countries outside the CIS, where the company has partners and representative offices, are Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Turkey and Vietnam on the 1C website. The 1C:Enterprise interface as of June 2013 is available in 14 languages, in addition to Russian. The latest languages added were Azerbaijani and Chinese.
At the same time, 1C has not yet announced the sales indicators of its platform outside the CIS. Boris Nuraliev only notes that so far, 1C has been working in the markets of far abroad “pointwise”: there has not yet been a global expansion and large investments in this direction.
"Firm 1C was successful on the territory of the former USSR due to two things: on the one hand, this is really good software, and on the other hand, we built a business approach that had not been used in Russia before, due to a good understanding of the local market" - says Boris Nuraliev.
The 1C strategy in Russia and the CIS countries is based on working through a partner network. As of June 2013, it has more than 6.5 thousand franchisees. However, the model that made 1C successful in these markets will most likely not work in the same way in the international market, 1C believes. Now the company is thinking about various possible models of work with partners in the far abroad.
1C will switch to electronic document management with partners
From the 3rd quarter of 2013, 1C plans to offer all partners of the 1C: Franchising network a transition to a legally significant electronic document management, said the founder and director of the company Boris Nuraliev. The corresponding information letter, according to him, is in the process of preparation.
Such a workflow, so far - in a test mode, "1C" has been implementing since mid-2012, exchanging acts for the provision of services and invoices with franchisees and distributors. It is planned to extend it to the conclusion of contracts.
In October 2011, amendments to Art. 54 of the Civil Code (“Commercial concession”), which regulate the use of franchising relations in Russia. In accordance with them, the franchisor has the opportunity to set a number of restrictions on partners: for example, to require from them a certain level of quality of goods and services associated with its brand and certification of employees.
After the change in the law, 1C began renegotiating agreements with franchisees: instead of information support agreements, it became necessary to conclude a concession agreement to connect to the network.
The conclusion of contracts is carried out through the 1C CRM system: partners submit an application for new contracts through a web interface, after which it is reviewed and approved by the partner department. After that, a PDF file with an agreement is automatically generated and sent to the partner, which he signs, stamps and sends both copies to 1C for signature. According to 1C, since 2011, about 34 thousand contracts and additional contracts have been concluded in this way. agreements.
“According to our estimates, the growth in the number of new customers of this solution in 2012 amounted to more than 50%. The next version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, on the localization of which we are working today, will be available in the traditional model (installation in our own infrastructure), and as a cloud service based on Windows Azure,” Microsoft told TAdviser.
1C buys Megaplan
In March 2012, it became known that 1C acquired 51% of Megaplan. The investor of the first round, the IQ ONE fund (the main beneficiary is Ulvi Kasimov), retained a blocking stake in Megaplan following the deal. The investment agency StartupIndex was involved in organizing and structuring the deal.
The investments received will help to strengthen the development of the product line and expand the marketing budget, the parties said in a statement.
The plans for 2012 include a 6-fold increase in Megaplan's revenue compared to 2011. The parties expect that strategic cooperation will make it possible to implement closer integration of Megaplan's products with 1C accounting and management solutions and, as a result, offer partners and users new services and opportunities.
Alexander Volchek, General Director of Megaplan, says that the deal with 1C gives the company unique opportunities for product development and promotion:
"We are witnessing a real revolution in the market of cloud services for small and medium-sized businesses. We expect that the investments received and reaching a new level of cooperation with 1C will allow us to implement our ambitious plans - to grow faster than this rapidly developing market."
During 2011, Megaplan implemented a number of strategic initiatives: in addition to products for organizing collaboration and task management, a line of CRM solutions was launched, representative offices were opened in Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and free products for small companies were announced.
Earlier, 1C became a co-owner of another cloud service - MySklad. 1C received funds for the acquisition of new assets through the sale of a share to the investment fund Baring Vostok.
The share of "1C" in the ERP market decreased for the first time in 9 years
"The 1C:Enterprise 8.2 technology platform already implements functionality designed to use the system's solutions as cloud services provided via the Internet, including the SaaS model. With this in mind, we are working on various options for improving our business model, including which is based on reliance on a wide partner network.Creating a joint venture with the founders of Lognex will allow using the experience of the successful SaaS-project "MySklad" for the further development of both our technologies and solutions, and the business of our partners."
Stop sales 1C:Enterprise 7.7
For comparison, a year earlier, the growth of "1C" was 20%. Revenue "1C" includes sales of the entire group, taking into account the results of subsidiaries, joint ventures and retail businesses. Intra-group turnover is not included in the result of the company's work.
Absolute values \u200b\u200bin 1C are not called. According to CNews Analytics, in 2010 the company's revenue amounted to $608 million (18.4 billion rubles). Accordingly, in 2011 the group expects to earn over $814 million.
Sales growth of the 8th version of "1C: Enterprise" in 2011, according to Boris Nuraliev, amounted to 74.5% in dollars (67.9% in rubles). Since version 7.7 products were removed from the price list back in July 2011 and the share of version 8 reached 94%, we can say that this figure roughly reflects the dynamics of sales of enterprise management products as a whole.
1C is consistently updating its software to work under the rental scheme. According to Nuraliyev, the total revenue from sales of software as a service over the past months of 2011 reached 21.5 million rubles.
- For the first nine months of 2011, revenue from sales of the 1C: Enterprise system in dollars exceeded the level of the same period in 2010 by 78.7%, said 1C representative Alexei Kharitonov.
2010: Sharp growth of sales after crisis
Financial indicator 1C names only one - the dynamics of changes in turnover, which in 2010 added 20%. In 2010, the total turnover of the 1C group amounted to $608 million, RIA Novosti reported at the end of September, citing company materials (this estimate was confirmed to Vedomosti by a manager close to the participants in the transaction).
1C does not disclose data on total revenue. According to CNews Analytics, in 2010 the holding's turnover amounted to 18.4 billion rubles, which is 15% more than a year earlier. In 2010, 1C for the first time got into the rating of the largest software developers in Europe, prepared by PwC, and took 59th place in it with an indicator of 65 million euros.
Sales volume of "1C" with subsidiaries, joint ventures and retail companies, with the elimination of intra-group turnover, US dollars *
* Oblique shading shows proportional extrapolation based on the results of the first 5 months of 2011
In 2010, sales of 1C:Enterprise licenses grew by 33% in dollar terms compared to 2009. At the beginning of 2011, growth accelerated, the first quarter became a record in terms of 1C:Enterprise sales for all the years of 1C's work, growth compared to the same period in 2010 amounted to 47%.
Acquisition of Buka and Avalon Style Entertainment
- On July 17, 2008, 1C officially announced the purchase of Buka, a Russian game developer, 52.9% of which was owned by investment funds Finam - Information Technologies (26.5%) and Norum (26.4%). Analysts then estimated the cost of Buka at $75-85 million. Buka was not integrated into the 1C structure and retained its name and team. Among the reasons why it was decided to buy Buka, 1C called the general trends of consolidation in the Russian gaming market, the unification of strong development teams.
- On October 30, 2008, 1C announced the completion of a deal to acquire a stake in Avalon Style Entertainment, a well-known Russian developer, creator of one of the most popular and successful domestic series of car simulators, All-Wheel Drive. As commented in the company, the signed agreement was another step aimed at strengthening the position of 1C as the largest Russian publisher, developer and distributor of computer games.
Shareholders meeting defines new strategy
In the spring of 2008, the meeting of 1C shareholders decided that the company should follow the path of creating a diversified holding company that occupies a leading position in the software market in the CIS. The company agreed with the slogan "Get big - Or get niche - Or get out" (Get big - or become niche - or get out) and made a choice in favor of growth.
“The strategy for creating a large enterprise is a matter of ambition,” says Boris Nuraliev, head of 1C. “We want to build a large, stable, efficient corporation that is competitive with other giants, including foreign ones.”
If earlier "1C" preferred to solve all tasks itself, today the basic principle of the company is formulated as "Rely on own forces and cooperation with leaders. As a result, around a strong parent company, a group of joint companies is created, strong and / or promising in their sectors of the software market. It is this model that 1C considers optimal at the current stage of consolidation of the IT market in Russia.
Many business areas that were previously part of the parent company 1C have been merged into subsidiaries and joint ventures:
- development, publication and sale of games - in the joint venture "1C: SoftClub";
- the retail direction, including 47 stores, in 1C:Interes, etc.
This led to a reduction in the parent company's revenue and the real state of affairs is now reflected in the aggregate indicators of the group of companies.
1C creates companies with varying degrees of participation, but the most effective was the joint ownership model, where the company is managed by a co-owner, not a hired manager. According to Boris Nuraliev, joint companies are more profitable than branches and show more efficient business growth in general. That is why in recent times the company is trying to transfer its subsidiaries into joint ventures. The cumulative growth in sales of subsidiaries and joint companies of the 1C holding for the first five months of 2011 compared to the same period in 2010 amounted to 27%.
Subsidiaries and joint companies of the holding are established with different shares of ownership. Recently, a scheme is more often used in which 1C controls 51%, and the partner - 49%. In the first six months of 2011 alone, 7 new subsidiaries and joint ventures were established. Total number joint ventures exceeds a hundred. Among them are companies in the Netherlands, Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, Latvia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Moldova, China, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Vietnam.
1C recognizes that the chosen model does not correspond to Western theory.
“Everything that we have done the best does not exactly correspond to Western patterns,” says Boris Nuraliev. - There is no such franchising of information technologies anywhere in the world. No major country has such a share of one accounting product. Nowhere in the segment of integrated ERP systems is there an increase in the share of a local supplier due to a decrease in the share of international vendors.
For rapid growth, it is also planned to use the attraction of additional capital through the placement of shares on the stock exchange (10-20%). According to the company's representatives, according to the results of 2011, an international audit is expected. To be admitted to an IPO, this procedure must be carried out three years in a row, so the placement can take place no earlier than 2014. responsibility of the company, as well as the possibility of rallying a team of employees and partners due to their possible transition to the status of 1C shareholders. Now many people would like to become co-owners of the company, but there is still no mechanism acceptable to everyone.
1994: First franchise agreements
- In parallel, 1C developed its partner network. Instead of opening huge amount branches, the company settled on a franchising model. The first pilot franchise agreements were signed in mid-1994. At that time, there were about 50 companies in the experimental group, while the number of dealers exceeded 600. Along the way, the company was developing the 1C:Enterprise software system, with an architecture oriented towards a high degree of adaptability.
- 1994 - Start of development of "1C: Accounting 6.0" for Windows
- 1995 - Release of "1C: Accounting 6.0" for Windows. The number of staff was 65 people.
- 1996 - Release of the platform "1C:Enterprise 7.0".
- In the summer of 1996, the first product of the system, 1C: Trade, was released, and as a result, by the end of the year, the number of franchisees increased to 414. In the same 1996, 1C began developing and selling computer games.
- 1997 - Release of the platform "1C:Enterprise 7.5"
- 1998 - The number of employees reached 143 people.
- 1999 - Release of the platform "1C:Enterprise 7.7"
- 2002 - Release of the platform "1C:Enterprise 8.0"
- 2003 - Release of the system "1C: Trade Management 8.0"
- 2004 - Release of the system "1C: Production Enterprise Management 8.0"
- 2006 - Release of the beta version of the 1C:Enterprise 8.1 platform
- In 2007, the first release of the 1C: Consolidation program was released.
1992: Release of the program "Mini-Accounting"
- The idea to create an accounting program arose in 1992. Then the accounting in the new company was in charge of Boris Nuraliev's brother - Sergey Nuraliev, who was professionally engaged in the automation of accounting operations. It was he who developed the workstation of the chief accountant of the 1C company. This product was presented at the Comtek exhibition in April 1992 and aroused unusually high interest from the enterprises. "Miniaccounting 1C", unlike traditional computer programs, was a fairly easy-to-install "boxed" solution that provided the ability to replicate, which quickly made it popular in the business environment.
- 1993 - Release of the program "Accounting for DOS"
1991: Creation of 1C company
With the approval of the institute's management and the consent of Nuraliev, part of the activity began to be carried out on behalf of the 1C company established in 1991.
Initially, "1C" was the name of its own search program: no more than 1C (seconds) was required to obtain the required information. The choice of the name of the company turned out to be extremely successful - in any reference book or exhibition catalog, "1C" has always been in the first place. In addition, "s" is the only key on the keyboard whose spelling in Cyrillic and Latin is the same.
In 1991, a network of dealers was created for the implementation of "Lotus 1−2−3 version 2.2 Russian"
1987-1990: Goskomstat. background
Since 1987 - Boris Nuraliev worked at the design institute of the State Statistics Committee, where he held the position of head of the self-supporting department. Even then, Nuraliev, together with his team, created a system with queries in natural language, similar to modern search engines, as part of an order to create a database of statistical indicators. National economy Soviet Union. Then two acquaintances of Nuraliev - Vadim Rappoport and Yuri Krichiver developed a device, which they called "electronic teletype". In fact, it was a means for connecting an IBM-compatible computer to telegraph communication networks, which were in abundance in those years. Nuraliev himself wrote a program for the device. As a result, about 6 thousand such devices were sold.
The next step towards the creation of the company was the signing of a contract for the distribution of Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets by Nuraliev's self-supporting department. At first glance, this task seemed impossible: in 1990, the distribution of the program cost about $500 dollars, while the average salary in the country was about $12. However, enterprises had the funds, as well as the need for modern accounting and analysis software, which at that time was spreadsheets. In addition, the successful sales of the electronic teletype helped Nuraliev's team build up a partner base. The self-supporting department became the most profitable at the institute. It was then that the company "1C" appeared.
Principles of operation of the company "1C"
In 1C, the following unified corporate principles of work have been adopted and are in effect:
- Focus on satisfaction real needs mass user.
- Work profitably.
- To be a reliable and profitable partner, treat partners, end users and employees honestly.
- Work well, make and sell products better than competitors.
- Rely on your own strength and on cooperation with leaders.
- Study someone else's experience, but think with your own head.
Software development
"1C" supplies from its warehouse a wide range of programs for office and home, currently numbering more than 10,000 items. Of the own developments of 1C, the most famous programs of the 1C: Enterprise system, as well as products for home computers and the educational sector.
The development of 1C Enterprise is an amazing process lasting about 15 years. During this time, the 1C platform has undergone several global rebirths and many changes. I propose today in the publication to consider the process of evolution of the 1C Enterprise platform from its inception to the present.
The emergence of 1C Enterprise on the market
1C Enterprise begins its history in 1991, when 1C began releasing its first versions of accounting configurations. These were DOS versions of programs that allowed you to create accounting entries when entering documents and allowed to work in multi-user mode. The program was noticed, began to be used, and this gave rise to the development of the 1C platform in the future.
The first sales of 1C Enterprise configurations for the Windows system began in 1995, when users switched from Windows 3.X to Windows 95. This was the 1C Accounting 6.0 configuration, which could make accounting entries when posting documents and had an improved graphical interface. At that time, it was a revolutionary tool that gained popularity among accountants and became very famous in the economic software market.
Development of 1C Enterprise - release of the 1C Enterprise 7.7 platform
The next stage in the development of the 1C platform is the release of the 1C Enterprise 7.7 platform in 1999. Prior to this, intermediate versions were released, but this version of the platform is the final implementation of the intended functionality. If before this, 1C configurations were created exclusively for accounting, then with this version of the platform, the functionality of the released 1C configurations has expanded. There are new configurations focused on other areas of application, such as "1C Trade and Warehouse" for accounting for warehouse activities, "1C Payroll and Human Resources" for calculating wages, "1C Production accounting services" for automation of accounting for manufacturing enterprises, etc.
As for the technical equipment of the platform, the programming language has been significantly changed, improved functionality has been added and optimization has been made. system requirements to work with the program.
1C Enterprise data objects appeared in the platform, using which it became possible to develop accounting systems. 1C data objects - became the basis of the 1C platform, which distinguished it from other programming languages. In the process of platform evolution, the number of data objects and their functionality expanded with the release of each new version of 1C Enterprise.
The proposed configurations have become popular with both small organizations and fairly large enterprises. But since the released configurations of 1C Enterprise 7.7 could not take into account all the nuances of the work of enterprises, for many companies there was a need to refine them for their business processes. This provoked a massive need for 1C programmers who could implement the functionality necessary for the operation of the enterprise in the proposed basic 1C configurations.
To meet these needs, 1C began to create a regional network of franchisees, in which specialists were recruited who wanted to learn programming in the 1C environment, study the functionality of typical 1C configurations for further refinement of 1C configurations to meet the needs of customers. The profession of a 1C Enterprise programmer has become one of the most sought after in the labor market and, accordingly, one of the very well paid. This trend continues to the present.
Issue 1C Enterprise 8.0 in development 1C Enterprise
The development of 1C Enterprise continued in 2002, in which a new version of the 1C Enterprise 8.0 platform was released. In this version, the interface has become even more friendly, not inferior to other Windows office applications. Functionally, new configuration objects were added, programming language functions were changed, and the query language was expanded. One of the advanced changes was the appearance of a reporting mechanism. It became possible to generate 1C reports from the data compiled by the request, and not only by programming tools. This improved the overall visualization of 1C reports and their functionality - in reports based on SKD, easily created transcripts, grouping, selection, formatting mechanisms appeared.
In versions 1C Enterprise 8, the licensing system has become more flexible. 1C Enterprise 7.7 security keys had a material carrier and were divided into single-user and multi-user, while an unlimited number of users could work in multi-user versions. Server keys also gave access to an unlimited number of users to server databases. The restrictions were of a technical nature related to the capacity of the equipment where the 1C bases were installed. In versions 1C Enterprise 8.0, this concept has changed - 1C keys have become individual for a specific number of users. In addition, 1C licenses began to be offered in two forms - in the form of a flash drive (hardware licenses) and in the form of pin codes (software licenses). You can read more about the licensing system in the article.
Further development of 1C Enterprise 8.x
In 2006, version 1C Enterprise 8.1 was released, which was an improved version of its predecessor.
In 2009, a new platform 1C Enterprise 8.2 was released, which implemented a new evolutionary functionality - there was a division into client and server procedures. If earlier all 1C procedures were server-based and performed by the resources of the systems on which they were installed, then in this version it became possible to determine where to perform procedures and functions - on the server or on the client. This made it possible to offload low-power user computers by performing heavy operations on the server and transfer the result of the execution to client computers for visualization.
The division of procedures and functions into client and server ones made it possible to implement the work of 1C Enterprise via the Internet. To do this, you need to publish the 1C database on a web server and give access through a web browser or through a platform on a 1C thin client.
At the same time, the 1C configuration interface has become much more pleasant, many user functions for working with list forms and 1C object forms have expanded, user interface settings have appeared, the presentation of menus and reporting output forms has changed for the better.
Release 1C Enterprise 8.3 in the development of 1C Enterprise
In 2012, a trial version of 1C Enterprise 8.3 was released, in which the development of 1C Enterprise continued. Integration with various Web-technologies has become the main direction of expanding the functionality of the platform. The platform has the ability to develop mobile applications, mechanisms for working with http have expanded, new mechanisms for integrating with the web and applications have appeared. Also, it became possible to fully work with Linux systems. These technologies continue to evolve to this day.
Another significant difference of the released platform was the creation of a modern data presentation mode "Taxi". When this mode is activated, the program control functions are organized into subsystems, making the visualization of the application more pleasant and logical. This technology of arrangement of functional blocks is used to this day.
Development of 1C Enterprise today
To date, the development of 1s enterprise has not been completed. More recently, the company announced the release of 1C Enterprise 8.4. The main direction of platform development is the optimization of the work of highly loaded 1C configurations and the development of Web technologies.
I forgot to mention another interesting development - 1C: Enterprise Development Tools, the purpose of which is to abandon the 1C platform. Surprised? This development began as soon as it became possible to publish the 1C database on a web server. It is a set of scripts for working with 1C Enterprise data through a browser without using the 1C platform. Here is such a promising direction for the development of the 1C system with a very distant aim ...
Summarizing what has been said, I make an unequivocal conclusion that today the 1C Enterprise platform has the full range of functions necessary for the operation of a modern application:
- supports client-server architecture;
- has the ability to integrate with other applications and websites according to all currently known standards;
- remote work with databases via the Internet;
- it is possible to write mobile applications;
- full work on Windows and Linux systems.
And this is only a superficial assessment. If you dig deeper, you will find many other diamonds of the 1C platform that make it competitive both on the Russian market and abroad.
Development of 1C Enterprise - platform evolution