Systems Integration with Accent on innovation

By Tatiana ORLOVA.

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From Far Eastern Capital Files:

Accent Group is working in the field of enterprise engineering and IT infrastructure assembling (offering B2B solutions).

Accent Group offers all range of services in IT infrastructure audit, energy efficiency audit, security and fire suppression systems audit. The Group specializes in cable systems, servers and data centers building, wireless network infrastructure, technical security and corporate telephony systems.

Accent Group is APC Elite Data Center Partner, Cisco Premier Partner, Microsoft Gold Partner, Hewlett Packard Preferred Partner, Xerox Business Partner, and Panasonic authorized technical service center.

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“It is absolutely clear that modern businesses need efficient and reliable engineering and computer infrastructure that makes it possible to cut costs and reduce unexpected expenses, prevent accidents and crime, maintain reliable uptime and guarantee a certain required level of comfort. This is why we take a comprehensive approach to calculate and implement our solutions, taking into account all the factors affecting final outcome, and not just selling “smart hardware”-Alexander VOZNESENSKY, General Director of Accent Co Ltd.

The Group’s competence is corroborated by its partnership status with international IT giants such as APC by Schneider Electric, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Cisco, Oracle, and others. For some of them Accent Group is the exclusive partner in Primorsky Region-for example, in 2012 the Group became the only authorized technical service center for Panasonic telecommunications solutions in the Russian Far East. In fact, the Group’s slogan “Solutions webbed with technologies” precisely reflects its key operating principle: after all systems integration service require not only solid knowledge in different fields, but also an ability to combine them wisely.

In order to show all the potential of IT infrastructure to the business community and teach the companies of Primorsky Region to get more benefit and capabilities out of up-to-date software, Accent Group opened the first regional Microsoft IT Technology Solutions Center in Vladivostok. The Group is using this venue to develop and demonstrate the most relevant IT projects for Accent’s current and prospective clients; Microsoft experts also use this space to give instruction workshops.

The whole set of these factors make it possible for Accent, a relatively new player on the market, to implement a number of projects for regional heavyweight companies, such as FESCO (shipping), PrimorskUgol (coal mining), RadioPribor (engineering), GRASP (wholesale), DomoTekhnika (appliance and home electronics retailer), Trading House Zeleny Ostrov (retail), Prisco (shipping), TerneiLes (timber), government-run Maritime Ports Administration for Primorsky Region and a number of other well-known local companies. At the same time the Group is not only active in its HQ in Vladivostok-Accent has customers in other cities of Primorsky Region and even beyond. A reasonable pricing policy makes Accent one of the most competitive systems integrators in the region, serving the needs of both large-scale enterprises and medium-sized business.

One of the recent services offered by the Group is an energy efficiency audit for companies and organizations. All public offices, agencies and companies, as well as private business with power consumption expenses more than 10 million Rubles annually (about 323 000 USD) are required to have energy efficiency audits done before December 31, 2012, under the Federal Law on energy savings and improving energy efficiency (Russian Federal Law No. 261-FZ dated 23 November, 2009). This is a brand new market and one of the companies within the Group entered it as a key player from the very beginning.

“With our own technical lab, fully equipped with modern measurement devices, we are in a position to take measurements of any complexity, at any level of detail, at the facilities of almost any prospective customer. The energy efficiency certificate we issue on basis of our audit is in fact a list of specific requirements for the customer to reduce consumption of energy resources of all types by means of a wide range of different saving solutions”-Konstantin VOROBYOV, Commercial Director of Accent Co Ltd.

Accent is not only innovative but also socially responsible company, acting as a sponsor for the VIII Primorsky Regional Business Award this year. It shows the Group’s interest in development of local business environment and fostering business-friendly climate.

Accent Group management has great plans for future expansion, both by designing and implementing new promising business technologies, and through geographic expansion. The Group already shows activity in Khabarovsk, Irkutsk, Omsk and Novosibirsk, and intends to continue expansion, since effective and beautiful IT solutions “webbed with different technologies” are always in demand.

Alexander VOZNESENSKY, General Director of Accent: “It is absolutely clear that modern business need efficient and reliable engineering and computer infrastructure».

Konstantin VOROBYOV, Commercial Director of Accent: “With a technical lab of its own we are in a position to take measurements of any complexity, at any level of detail».