Half of Russian companies failed to renew licenses for foreign software

In 2022, 50% of Russian companies had problems with renewing licenses for foreign software. Almost a third of entrepreneurs complained about problems with technical support (32%) and payment for services (31%), and every tenth complained about the lack of stable operation of foreign software. Such conclusions were made by the research center A2:Research, polling 1200 entrepreneurs and top managers from retail, manufacturing, transport, telecom, IT, etc. in April 2023.

Tangible consequences were due to foreign manufacturers who remotely blocked the operation of their devices and software, notes Roman Karpov, director of strategy and technology development at Axiom JDK. If the National Payment Card System (NSPK) had not transferred the Mir payment system from Oracle Java to the Russian Java platform in advance, the transactions of the departed Visa and Mastercard could not be serviced in the Russian Federation, he notes.