The Russian IToutsourcing market is growing by 60%70% per year, and according to experts, the monetary volume on the IToutsourcing market will reach one billion dollars by 2009. However, according to specialists, the majority of players in this market segment offer lowquality services. Moreover, Russia’s traditional distrust of outsiders affects …

In the dim and distant past, company offices exchanged messages by employing couriers on horseback making their way across treacherous terrain. In the twenty first century the pace of business has changed beyond recognition. Nowadays vital information is exchanged securely in seconds between offices located on different continents. VPNs (virtual …

Retail centers are one of the biggest users of telecommunications services. Thanks to a diversity of tenants and current market dynamics, the needs of retail properties for high-quality telecommunication systems are no less than those of business centers.

The conference IT Telecommunications in Real Estate Development and Management was organized by IM Events and took place in St. Petersburg in mid-October. Its main theme was interaction between building owners, management companies, and telecom market operators. The participants came to the conclusion that, no matter which way of dealing …

Given the stable shortage of quality office space, construction of large business centers in the Urals is accelerating. Fault-finding tenants do not only lay claims on the location and comfort of office facilities; they also seek quality telecommunications. At the stage of building design large developers face a dilemma: creating …

Diversity of methods of investing into real estate (purchasing completed real estate constructions for various purposes; purchasing of land lots for building and without the purpose of immediate building; purchasing title for real estate; investing into shares of the companies which own and manage real estate; investments into investment funds …

There are a range of specific problems which many companies come across when investing in property. In particular, a problem which teachers at the Property Investment Institute in Chicago (CCIM) call ‘informational inaccessibility’ of the market. Fairly often, specialists give contradictory information about the market. So, on what grounds can …

One of the most remarkable trends of the outgoing year has been business addressing the arts. This means not only traditional patronage and the attendance of trendy performances. After a long break, firms are underwriting the building of stages and concert halls in St. Petersburg. Some developers are even including …