The concept of uniform information space it is association, standardization and unification of information, program and system resources of the companies which are included in partner group or holding with the purpose:

• Rises of efficiency of interaction between the companies
• Extensions of client base
• Improvement of quality of interaction with clients and with partners
• Extensions of the partner network
• Rises of transparency of business of the companies
• Rises of investment attractiveness of the separate companies and groups as a whole
• Saving money resources on purchases of licenses of the software, and at development of the specialized software
• Decreases of periods of implantation, both separate software products, and program complexes
• Lowerings costs while in service the software (deprecication of cumulative possession)
• Simplification of the process of implantation of new technologies and systems.

Association of information resources represents development of the uniform strategy of representation of activity, both the separate company, and all group of the companies as a whole, and also strategic planning as a whole on group of the companies.

Association of information resources includes:

• Collection of the information
• Codification of the information
• Classification of the information
• The coordination of the basic moments during classification and codifications
• The publication of the information inside the companies
• Organization of joint involvement in information actions (advertising, exhibitions, etc.).

Association of information resources can occur on the basis of the following principles:

• Creation of a uniform information field on the basis of requirements of the companies (from a quotient to the whole)
• Creation of requirements on the basis of the centralized approach (from the whole to a quotient)
• Creation of requirements on a basis to the mixed type.

Practical implementation of association of information resources can be creation of uniform informational - analytical centre which primary goals will be:

• Development of principles of collection of the information, and coercion of forms of account in correspondence with corporate standards (classification and codification)
• Development and implantation of the specialized software
• Organization of the process of collection and allocation of the information
• The coordination and the publication of the information both on corporate a web servers, and on external specialized resources, and also usage in press and the advertising purposes.

In the simplified sort association of information resources can be the database and specially prepared for operation with this base of staff which under the first requirement of the companies of group and in the mode of high efficiency is ready to give the information for anyone business of the purposes and tasks on all group of the companies.

The unification of forms of account means:

• Implantation of forms of account according to requirements of the current legislation
• Development of corporate standards for the reporting at a level of group (internal audit)
• Development of corporate standards for reports on activity of the concrete company which are included in group
• Development of uniform principles of coercion of metrics of activity on group of the companies for creation of summary reports.

As a technological basis at unification of forms of account the technique of the system of the balanced metrics (SBC) can be used.

Standardization of the software includes:

• Creation of the registry of the software which is used in the separate companies
• The analysis of efficiency of usage of the software in the companies
• The analysis of information safety of activity, both in the separate companies, and on group as a whole
• Audit of license policy, both in the separate companies, and at a level of group
• Development of guidelines on usage of the software
• Creation of the unified requirement specification on the specialized software
• Formalising specific requirements to the software for the separate companies
• Choice of uniform suppliers of the software on the basis of carrying out of competitions with the purpose of lowering expenses for acquisition of the software and the further support.

Result of unification and standardization of the software and forms of account according to internal (corporate) requirements and requirements of the state bodies, potential investors should be:

• Correspondence of forms of account to the state both international standards and norms
• Carrying out of certification on information safety
• Correspondence to internal corporate standards of the reporting
• Correspondence to requirements of investors under the financial reporting and forms of representation
• Rise of transparency of activity, both the separate companies, and groups of the companies as a whole
• Deprecication of licensing of the software
• Deprecication of software engineering
• Lowering periods of implantation of the software.

Within the framework of practical implementation in life of the concept of uniform information space of group of the companies it is possible to provide development and implantation of technologies of uniform service centre which main assignment is:

• Creation and systematization of experience of usage of the software in group of the companies
• Consultation of the companies at the choice of the software on the basis of a priori experience
• Creation of the uniform unified requirement specification
• Development of the guideline on modification of requirement specifications in view of requirements in each concrete case.

As the technological and program platform for solution of the task of creation of uniform service centre it is possible to use:

• For the purposes of unification and standardization of the software and forms of account - the program technologies constructed on principles of the system of balanced metrics (Balanced Scorecard System)
• For the purposes of collection, codification and classification of the information - a corporate decision support system.

The corporate decision support system should be realized with usage of technologies of the Internet for support of operation in this system of remote users.

The corporate support system of solutions includes:

• Creation of the list of problems (or the purposes)
• Creation of advisory council
• Discussion (conference) on each problem within the framework of advisory council
• Engaging indirect experts
• Possibility of creation of specialized forms at discussion of a concrete problem
• The system of questioning, including by results of the accepted solutions (expert judgement)
• Ranking importance of problems and opinions of experts
• Possibility of connection of specialized quick references at discussion by that
• The system of notifications
• The system of administration
• A protection system of the information
• Possibility of search, filtering and classification of the information
• A terminological knowledge base.

The corporate decision support system will allow:

• To increase an overall performance of joint bodies at the expense of preliminary specification, both the summons of discussions, and common understanding of questions of discussions
• To generate a branch knowledge base on the basis of understanding and discussions by advisory council
• To increase efficiency of business at the expense of unification of understanding of problems and directions of development with usage of a priori experience
• To increase efficiency of management, both in the separate companies, and on group as a whole
• To strengthen expert discipline.

The corporate decision support system can be used as a technological and information basis for solution of other tasks on uniform information space.

Implementation of the concept of uniform information space of group of the companies will allow:

• To strengthen transparency of activity of each company within the framework of the uniform strategy of group with the purpose of engaging investments
• To simplify the procedure of ocurrence and information integration of the new companies in structure of the companies
• To increase a management efficiency
• To strengthen information security, both the separate companies, and group as a whole
• To increase inflow of new clients
• To improve quality of servicing.

Last modified: 16.04.2006
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