UrBC, Magnitogorsk, May 14, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) won the 16th IT Leader National Prize in Ferrous Metallurgy, the plant’s press service reports.

The prize was awarded for MMK Group’s large-scale software infrastructure upgrade project uniting over sixty different companies.

The IT Leader Award was set up in 2002 in order to draw the professional community’s attention to changes in the new digital era and the most successful IT projects in the country. This year’s emphasis was on Managing The Digital Future, which signifies the industry’s turn to digitalization and IT process transformations.

The prize is seen as an acknowledgement of MMK’s success in launching relevant and efficient information technologies throughout its member enterprises. MMK Group keeps working to upgrade its exiting information systems across more than sixty different entities. The company set up a special-purpose data center and a software/appliance module that ensures centralized access to all the information systems within the company.