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Dear Partners, Colleagues and Friends

All the projects in our 16 years history have been based on the professional collaboration. Each implemented system, filled with hundreds thousand or million of processed documents is special, as it is customized to be efficiently used by Russian and international corporations, governmental agencies, cultural institutions. Only due to good cooperation with customers and partners it is possible to provide solutions, many of which are unique from the point of view of their complexity, scale and innovations. We are always ready to apply our experience and capacities in order to meet specific customer needs, and are open for good cooperation: you are always welcome!

Yours sincerely, Sergey BALANDJUK, President of ELAR Corp.

Electronic Archive (ELAR) Corp.

Founded: Feb. 1992

Structure

Privately owned corporation of business and production companies.

Mission

To promote informational and technological progress of Society and the State.

Position

  • Russia and world leader in creation of electronic archives, imaging databases, digital collections.
  • Project developer of enterprise document–based ECM infrastructures, modern electronic information systems for business and governmental sectors.
  • Professional provider of industrial scanning/archiving equipment and turn–key solutions.
  • Europe largest producer of digital document processing, scanning and indexing services.

General projects objectives

  • To provide document and archive contents for governmental agencies.
  • To preserve and develop the National heritage.
  • To implement highly efficient corporate ECM solutions.
  • To provide digital on–line access to paper–based documents.

Coverage

HQ and 3 plants in Moscow, branches in Saint–Petersburg, Zelenograd, Tver, Tobolsk, Tyumen, Volgograd, Norilsk, Kazan, Almaty (Kazakhstan) and Kiev (Ukraine), 15 mobile workshop teams to provide scanning at remote customer’s sites .

  • Number of employees – 2,370 (Q4.2007)
  • Turnover 2007 – 2.2 billion rubles
  • Total number of documents digitized – around 1/4 billion (Q3.2008)
  • Overall digitizing performance – 7.1 million doc. per month (average.2007)
  • Number of production scanners in use – 187 (Q4.2007)
  • Certification: ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management System

Russia is successfully progressing on the way to the information society. Organizations and enterprises computerize their document flow, create electronic archives and use customized ECM infrastructures. More and more people use Internet, databases, electronic copies and content instead of time–wasting search for paper–based information. But paper documents are still abound in our world, and they need to be converted to accessible databases – for better management, easy retrieval and more efficient business. A lot of scientific, cultural and historical relics need to be digitally processed in order both to become easy accessible to people, and to be preserved for the history. ELAR Corp. is a worldwide recognized expert and a Russian leader in mass electronic document–based resources creation and imaging databases development, a highly evaluated professional contractor for federal, regional and corporate projects. ELAR Corp. develops innovative information systems and technological solutions, offers and implements state–of–the–art scanning and archiving equipment. As the most experienced provider of related turn–key solutions, ELAR is involved in important regional and national IT programs and projects. We keep on growing to be abreast of the growing demand. The combination of our own unique experience, project and production capacities, world best technological achievements prove ELAR’s role as one of the main drivers of Russia’s IT–progress.