The event is organized by FOSTAS  (System Engineering Standardization and Management Support Fund) and will be held on 17-18 October 2007 in Moscow and on 25 October in Kiev.

The 2007 theme is "Standard Solutions for an Individual Customer: One Step Ahead the Market". 

The conference continues analyzing the most actual issues of specific needs of Russian enterprises in information systems. 

The conference program committee sees its goal in examining topical issues, discussing new opportunities, exchanging practical experience and reviewing different approaches to the use of standard solutions in the sphere of applied software and corporate information systems, as well as methods of standard solutions application.

It is planned to broach the following thematic trends during the conference:

• Standard Solutions: Methods, Market and Practice
• Standard Solutions Use Barriers Today and Tomorrow
• People, Processes and Projects

Round tables of the conference will provide floor for discussing the following issues:

• What is a "standard" solution in the sphere of applied software?
• What can be and needs to be demanded from standard solutions?
• How to integrate a chosen standard solution into the business architecture of an enterprise?
• How to overcome risks of standard  solutions use and get only advantages?
• How to "be one step ahead the market"?
• The best scenarios of standard solutions use - what are they?         

The conference is held for:

• Customers who order standard IT solutions for commercial and public organizations
• Managers of target programs and IT projects
• System integrators and creators of information systems
• Councilors, analysts and consultants in the sphere of IT services

Previous conferences involved not only representatives of corporate sector but also Russian system integrators, world and domestic producers: Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, 1C, IBS, Jet Infosystems, Inline Technologies, NtrLab, Borlas, Tekora, Croc, BBC, Sibintek, I-Teco, Diasoft, NNZ and many others.

In case of any questions please contact the FOSTAS secretariat at: +7 (495) 601-20-49, +7 (495) 601-23-49, +7 (495) 151-3475 or mailto: conf2007@fostas.ru

Also please follow the information on the FOSTAS website

Contact persons: conference coordinator Olga Savarovskaya