NTR Lab and iTek Logix, Co., Vernon Hills, IL, have agreed to cooperate in providing IT services and developing software products primarily targeting Illinois-based insurance businesses.

NTR Lab has won a contract for maintaining the website of a large asset management company Allianz Rosno in 2008. Assessing the results of the tender, two companies, including NTR Lab, were shortlisted. Although NTR Lab submitted a higher bid for their services, Marketing department of Allianz Rosno voted for this company due to the previous record of high quality and efficiency in completing the tasks.

GUP ECONOMICA and NTR Lab have won a contract to develop a "Subsystem of register of production supplied for municipal procurement". The software is part of unified functional complex of budget administrators, including special purpose budget management functions and a database of the unified automated workplaces of budget fund recipients.

NTR Lab and GUP ECONOMICA staff have received a certificate of official registration for "Economica:Reestr", a joint development of software that creates a product register and forecasts procurement volume for state needs.

NTR’s Siberian Information Systems division in Tomsk has acquired Synergo, its Novokuznetsk partner company. The two companies have successfully completed several projects since they started working together in early 2000.
The new unit will specialize in accounting and business management solutions, primarily for local customers, and web development projects for international customers. Konstantin Davkaev will continue to head the Novokuznetsk office; the current eight-person staff is projected to grow to 30 people by the end of 2007.

Nick Mikhailovsky, CEO of NTR Lab, delivered a report on the architecture and templates of information systems and corporate IT strategy at the Fourth All Russia Conference on Standards of Modern Information Systems Projects. It considered information systems models in terms of the Zachman framework.

The conference was organized by the FOSTAS Foundation in cooperation with Chief Information Officer published by Open Systems.

CEO of NTR Lab, Nick Mikhailovsky, delivered a report at CREDEX 2004, the credit management conference.

The conference was devoted to consumer credit and risk management and dealt with the issues of credit evaluation technologies, protection against risks and legislative initiatives in credit risk management.

The conference brought together CEOs and specialists of leading Russian and foreign companies, such as, ROSNO, Baker&McKenzie, Delta Bank, Dun and Bradstreet, Pepeliaev, Goltsblat & Partners, BDO Unicon, Nikoil IBG (now part of Uralsib bank), Visa International and others.

Mikhailovsky reported on Credit Scoring and Consumer Credit Problems in the Post-Soviet Period.

The conference was produced by Eventum.

The Russian edition of ORACLE Magazine published an article by COO of NTR Lab, Anton Malkov, called “Monitoring means of databases and applications operating.”

The article deals with the issues of improving the operating reliability of database and application servers. Special attention is given to pro-active monitoring, which allows the systems’ behavior to be predicted based on previous data. Malkov considers Cerberus, developed by SATS Technologies in 1997, to be an excellent system for improving reliability.

Since 2001, NTR Lab participated in the design and development of this system and is the exclusive distributor of version 3.0 in the Russian market.

The fourth annual All Russia Standards in Modern Information Systems Projects conference will be held in Moscow on April 21-22 2004.

The conference is organized by FOSTAS Foundation in cooperation with Chief Information Officer magazine (CIO.RU), published by Open Systems. The key point of the conference is the role and accountability of IT in an organization’s strategy”.

The conference participants will learn proven methods of creating and implementing IT strategy. The conference covers modern principles and summary reviews, as well as practical examples of creating and implementing IT strategy in organizations of various sizes and industries.

NTR CEO Nick Mikhailovsky is a member of both the program and organizing committees and will speak on corporate strategies and their relation to the templates of information systems architecture.

NTR Lab is pleased to be an informational sponsor of the conference.

Plagiarism is so rife on the Internet that http://www.ezhe.ru/hash was created specifically to expose the plagiarists and protect copyright and IP.

However, at the end of October, 2002 NTR took a direct hit after Anton Malkov, our COO, took part in the conference Theory and practice of company management in Kiev and delivered a paper on Cost Efficiency Estimation of Implementing an Automated CRM System. The report was published in the conference materials, and on our website. The value of the paper was such that it was it was republished multiple times with full attribution and links back to us.

However, in May, six months after the conference, we found Malkov’s verbatim report published under the name of Inessa Zaika on two sites, http://kiev.trainings.ru/articles/ and http://www.razvitie.com.ua/answer/11.htm.

We contacted the site administrators and the article was removed from one site and published with corrected attribution and links on the other.