High techs: MBC forum in Yekaterinburg

In the beginning of spring in Yekaterinburg there was held a regional forum MERLION Business Channel. Under the flag of MERLION there were gathered more than 65 partners, representatives of the largest computer appliances suppliers and MERLION Company’s leaders. The most timely novelties, interesting speeches and analysis of the situation in the Russian computer market were presented only to the attention of MERLION partners from the Urals.

In the beginning of April this year in Yekaterinburg in hotel Park Inn there was held a conference MERLION Business Channel. Forum MERLION Business Channel is a format of regional field event for the leaders and owners of Russian IT companies, started by the largest Russian distributor of computer and digital equipment, leader of the national IT market in 2006. More than 65 partners, MERLION Company’s leaders and representatives of the largest suppliers of computer equipment took part in the conference. Among them there were the following companies: BenQ (monitors), DELL (servers and data storage systems), Lenovo (laptops), Samsung (monitors and printers), НР ([rinters), Western Digital (hard disks), Microsoft (software). MBC forums give a unique opportunity for the partners to get at first hand the most complete and authentic information about the status of Russian IT market, get more details about interesting novelties of the largest manufacturers of computer equipment and to discuss all the details with the colleagues in IT business.

High techs: MBC forum in Yekaterinburg
High techs: MBC forum in Yekaterinburg
High techs: MBC forum in Yekaterinburg

The MBC conference in Yekaterinburg was opened by Sergey Raskopov, MERLION’s sales director. In the framework of an official part representatives of the vendors read their 15 minutes reports to the partners, devoted to the timely novelties, analytics, targets and tasks of he companies in Russian market.

Dmitriy Gamaiunov, a manager on work with resellers of Lenovo performed a presentation “Lenovo in Russia 2010: history, successes and achievements, development plans for 2010, partnership program of Lenovo”. In his report the speaker presented timely novelties to the partners and pointed out the main advantages of cooperation with vendor.

Yevgeniy Mikhailov, manager on distribution of printing devices and consumables of HP continued the conference reading a report “Our experience is your success!” From the presentation the participants knew about new partnership programs of HP.

Alexander Chaikovskiy, manager on work with partners of WD in the Urals region, made a presentation «WD is a technological leader in the market of hard disks”, in which he in more details told about the last novelties of the company in the segment of hard disks.

High techs: MBC forum in Yekaterinburg
High techs: MBC forum in Yekaterinburg
High techs: MBC forum in Yekaterinburg

Alexander Voskresenskiy, manager on the product of the Samsung Department of information technologies, told the partners about timely novelties of the company in his report “New monitors and printers, spring”.

A high interest was aroused to presentation of DELL and Microsoft, devoted to the joint solutions of both companies. Dmitriy Yugas, Microsoft regional representative, made a report “DLL solutions with Windows 7 and ROK for corporative segment”, from which the partners knew that all the commercial DELL laptops are now supplied with OS Windows 7. Windows 7 and DELL create a new source of effectiveness and productivity of the calculations. Speaking about productivity, OS Windows 7, which on many characteristics is not worse but sometimes is much better than the previous versions of Windows and also provided with lots of new functions guarantees stability of operation and opens new horizons of the operational simplicity.

Besides, the Urals partners knew about advantages of the solutions on the basis of DELL and ROK, among which there are acceptable price, reliability, technical support and quick deployment. Companies DELL and Microsoft worked out installation scripts for DELL and ROK, simplifying the process of installation and servers’ connection and enabling to easily get the necessary server solution.

Vadim Khomiakov, manager on work with partners of BenQ, made a report “BenQ LED LC-monitors 2010, new technologies and advantages”.

High techs: MBC forum in Yekaterinburg
High techs: MBC forum in Yekaterinburg
High techs: MBC forum in Yekaterinburg

Sergey Raskopov, MERLION Company’s sales director summarized the results of the conference in Yekaterinburg. In the regime of open dialogue with the partners he discussed peculiarities of the promotion of promising goods – laptops, notebooks, navigation systems, electronic books. He also paid much attention to new commodity groups such as “household appliances”, “cell phones”, “audio and video equipment”.

In the renewed format MBC conference is completed by “round tables” of vendors, where the partners get a unique possibility to assess the situation in the market through the lenses of the vendors’ equipment promotion and sales.

According to the tradition, after the fruitful official part of the forum, the guests were invited to a holiday party.

High techs: MBC forum in Yekaterinburg
High techs: MBC forum in Yekaterinburg
High techs: MBC forum in Yekaterinburg

See pictures http://www.merlion.com/press-center/photoalbums/ekat2010/

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