The developer of engineering software “Ascon” increased revenue by a third

The largest Russian developer of engineering software (software) Ascon in 2022 increased revenue by 35%, from 2.8 billion rubles. to 3.8 billion rubles, the company’s CEO Maxim Bogdanov told Vedomosti. Revenue “Ascona» has been growing for three years in a row, but in 2021 the growth was more noticeable and amounted to 40% – from 2 billion rubles. up to 2.8 billion rubles.

The growth of the company’s revenue in 2022 provided demand for the company’s solutions related to BIM technologies, Bogdanov said. This is a building design method that allows you to create a virtual copy of an object and through it to get access to all relevant and reliable information on the object. In particular, sales of new licenses for the Pilot-BIM solution grew by 260%, and the number of users of the Renga design system exceeded 1000, the Ascon CEO cited the data.

The growth in demand, according to Bogdanov, was influenced by the need to replace foreign software, the creation of new production facilities and the requirement to use BIM technologies at state order objects, and in the future in shared construction [жилья].

According to the New Industrial Software roadmap, the volume of the Russian market for technological solutions created within the high-tech direction in 2022 amounted to 162 billion rubles, by 2025 it should reach 260 billion rubles, and by 2030 – 350 billion rubles At the CIPR conference in the summer of 2022, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said that only 23% of IT solutions used in industry in 2022 were domestic. “The share of costs for such purchases (domestic industrial software) in the next 2-3 years should grow to 70% of all digitalization costs,” the prime minister said at the time.

In the traditional market of solutions for mechanical engineering, Ascon in 2022 continued to develop a heavy class PLM complex for designing and managing the life cycle of technical products, Bogdanov said. Besides, last year migration of solutions of the company on Linux accelerated, he added. In particular, the Compass-3D design system and the server part of the Polynom: MDM enterprise regulatory and reference information management system now work on domestic operating systems, Bogdanov said. According to him, the transition to independent software platforms is in great demand due to the ban on the use of foreign software in critical information infrastructure from January 1, 2025.

In 2022, the company has 970 new customers, and their total number is about 15,000, says Bogdanov. Among the largest customers of the company are Uralvagonzavod of Rostec, PO Mayak of Rosatom, Baltiysky Zavod and Sevmash (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation), Volgogradneftemash, Federal Research and Production Center Titan-Barricades. In addition, in 2022 Ascon entered the new market of Uzbekistan as an integrator, Bogdanov said. Ascon-Tashkent will work directly with customers, acting as a partner in the digitalization of engineering and production processes.

The departure of foreign vendors from the Russian market has led to serious problems in many domestic customer companies regarding the use of system and engineering software, said the manager of the company’s Transformation Strategy practice “Reksoft Consulting” Valery Volynkin. The reaction of most enterprises was the revision and assessment of the state of their IT systems and planning the transition of critical processes to domestic software, he added. In parallel, according to him, lower priority projects were frozen and general budgets were redistributed.

“In this regard, it can be assumed that the decrease in the growth rate of Ascon’s revenue in 2022 is associated with a forced pause in the market associated with rebalancing, and in 2023 we should expect an increased growth rate of the vendor’s revenue due to deferred demand,” believes Volynkin.

The market of domestic application software will grow year by year in the range of 10-20%, thanks to comprehensive measures to support the state and investments from industries, a representative of the Russian developer of software for the digitalization of industry, Tsifra Group, believes. “We see that the state is interested in attracting large investors to the development, and further, it is likely that such projects will be developed on the principle of co-financing,” he said.