Today it is obvious to business that sanctions and the process of foreign companies leaving Russia are not situational
Why business is slow to switch to Russian services
Largely due to the transition to Russian instrumentssimple corporate logic gets in the way. Businesses live, work and make decisions based on the fiscal or calendar year. Many companies find it convenient to remain within the framework of current contracts with contractors, and they think about revision only towards the end of the terms of the agreements.
The transition to new services seems to entrepreneursand corporations through a long and painful process. The larger the company, the more employees, projects and information about them it has. This approach to tooling may save time, but it will not solve the security problem.
As we already saw at the beginning of the year, foreign services are leaving Russia quickly and without warning, limiting or permanently closing access for their former clients.
Some businesses that stored information aboutprojects on GitHub, they simply lost it. Therefore, using Russian services that run on servers located within the country looks much safer.
Is everything 100% replaceable?
In this matter, one must be honest and say thatRussian services still cannot be compared in terms of convenience with foreign counterparts. Of course, there are worthy alternatives to foreign instruments on the Russian market. However, to fully replace them with domestic services, companies lack the main thing - the compatibility of tools.
Switching to a new service is always an inconvenience.People need time to get used to a new product and its interface. But you can get used to good service in a week. And then the business was faced with the fact that several Russian services may not have integration with each other at all. We see that many companies in the market are working to create such an ecosystem, and it will definitely appear in the foreseeable future. But while this path has not yet been completed, it is too early to talk about a 100% replacement of foreign instruments.
How to "make friends" with each other Russian services
As we have said, the advantage of foreignservices in that you can build an ecosystem out of them. This allows you to automate many processes. For example, the bundle of Jira, Slack and GitHub has a high level of integration with each other. Moving a card in Jira triggers messages in Slack. Thus, manual processes become automatic.
As a collaborative board creator, I seethe future of the Russian market lies in the creation of such an ecosystem. However, now, assembling a digital office on Russian tools, the company will not get the same return. But it is still possible to make friends with domestic services. For example, making a call to Yandex Telemost using our sBoard and then saving the result to Yandex Disk or Cloud Mail is not a problem.
Russian services on the horizon for 2-3 yearswill definitely achieve such a level of integration that they will be able to compete with foreign analogues. In the meantime, the configuration of services - knowledge bases, calendars, task trackers, whiteboards and video conferencing - will change and improve until it reaches automation.
Is it necessary to completely replace foreign services if their functionality has not been limited
Now many companies have found ways to continuework on foreign services. Problems with payment or limitation of functions no longer cause difficulties, so the business has become less thinking about abandoning familiar tools. In this case, there really is no need to run and look for alternatives on the Russian market - this seems like an irrational step.
However, it is better for a company to have a plan in casethe output of foreign services from Russia will continue. The most reasonable approach is to duplicate some of the functions on the Russian service. For example, you can transfer one of the commands to the Russian task tracker without disabling access to the foreign one. In the event that a non-Russian service is disabled, the company will already have a team that is ready to work on a similar tool. This means that the projects will not stop.
Tips - how to assemble an office on Russian instruments
To avoid making a mistake when choosing Russian tools for your digital office, you can use a simple checklist:
- Check if the company's servers are located in Russia - this guarantees the safety and security of data.
- Look at the customers and partners of the service and study their reviews.
- Ask for integration cases with other Russian tools from the creators of the service.
- Don't try to replace everything at once; implement Russian tools in separate teams.
In the end, I’ll recommend one more life hack - sharework and private life. It is better to choose professional tools for work that are not used by most people in private life. This will relieve employee fatigue and help get more results, because people will be better focused on business issues.
Using Russian instruments nowwill help businesses become more competitive in the business environment. This is due to the fact that the services created in our country create a safe environment and reduce the risk of work stoppage or information loss. In the future, when Russian services grow up and are able to build a seamless environment, companies will receive an ecosystem equal to foreign ones. Benefits will be given to those businesses that begin the integration of Russian tools in advance.
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