Documentolog News #9 (01.06.2020 - 08.06.2020)

? +216 new clients (+19% from last week), including LLP "Center for Promoting Sustainable Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan", LLP "Naimi.kz", State Enterprise on the right of economic management "City Center for Mental Health" of Nur-Sultan city akimat, and others.

A total of 10,810 organizations and 6,981 government agencies are already registered! Want to exchange documents and sign contracts with them in an electronic legally significant form? Register at doculite.kz;

?+1 company has connected to correspondence with government agencies. A total of 648 enterprises have transitioned their interactions with government agencies to electronic format;

? 21,472 documents have been sent electronically, of which 8,495 to government agencies;

?5,368,000 tenge - the minimum savings of our clients on courier services;

?660 (+10.3% from last week) requests were received from current clients through the Documentolog Client Personal Account, of which 564 (85.5%) were completed on time, additional information is awaited for 34 requests, 3 requests have been forwarded to the development department, and 59 requests are still in progress;

?4.81 - the average rating for request execution given by our clients in the Personal Account over the past week;

?A total of ❗️1,445 information security incidents were recorded. Of these:

- 38 hacking attempts,

- 1,407 events of analysis and vulnerability search in our network.

All actions of the attackers were successfully prevented;

?The availability level of the Documentolog system over the past week was 99.98%;

?We updated the electronic document management systems of 40 client companies to the Documentolog 7.4.11 release;

?Collaboration between Documentolog and Kcell (https://kursiv.kz/news/kompanii/2020-06/ksell-predostavit-klientam-uslugu-elektronnogo-dokumentooborota-doculite): Kcell plans to sign contracts with its corporate clients through the Doculite.kz service using an electronic digital signature;

?The state of emergency has accustomed Kazakhs to online payments (https://profit.kz/news/57399/Rezhim-ChP-priuchil-kazahstancev-k-onlajn-oplatam/): the National Bank recorded an increase in the share of cashless transactions using payment cards. The share of cashless transactions increased from 39% (for the period January - April) in 2019 to 62% (for the period January - April) in 2020;

?The ranking of the best technical universities in Kazakhstan has been presented (https://profit.kz/news/57405/Predstavlen-rejting-luchshih-tehnicheskih-vuzov-RK/). Satbayev University topped the list, followed by Karaganda State Technical University in second place, and Kazakh National Agrarian University in third place;

?The impact of Covid-19 on the IT market (https://profit.kz/news/57392/Covid-19-i-IT-rinok-kto-kogo/): according to the analytical company Gartner, the volume of IT goods and services purchases worldwide will decline by 8% in 2020 compared to 2019. At the same time, a positive effect of the virus is noted. Due to the mass transition to remote work, analysts expect a 19% increase in the volume of public cloud service purchases.

We at Documentolog also felt the impact of the quarantine: the number of new client companies for the Doculite.kz service (excluding individuals) from March 16 to May 11 amounted to 1,548 legal entities. This is 60% more than the pre-quarantine period (01.01.2020 - 15.03.2020), when the number of new companies on Doculite.kz reached 971 legal entities;

?Yandex and Sberbank part ways (https://www.it-world.ru/it-news/it/153921.html). According to The Bell, Yandex will become the sole owner of "Yandex.Market", which includes the e-commerce platform and the marketplace "Beru";

?A startup has proposed that companies use AI for "performance evaluation" of employees (https://habr.com/ru/news/t/505524/): Enaible plans to use AI tools to measure how quickly employees complete various tasks and suggest ways to speed them up.

We at Documentolog are also working on the development of our AI module - AI.sulu, which collects and analyzes data in the system to assess employee performance. AI.sulu not only tracks employee discipline but also identifies "bottlenecks" in the company's business processes that require optimization;

?Users have filed a lawsuit against Google and are seeking $5 billion in compensation for the illegal collection of their data (https://habr.com/ru/news/t/505216/). They accuse the company of violating the privacy of millions of users by tracking their online activities using Google Analytics, Ad Manager, and other services and plugins, even when users opened Chrome and other browsers in "incognito" mode;

?Zoom reveals its finances (https://habr.com/ru/news/t/505206/): the growth during the coronavirus pandemic was even more impressive than expected. The video conferencing service Zoom has just completed its best quarter in history. In its earnings report (https://investors.zoom.us/news-releases/news-release-details/zoom-reports-first-quarter-results-fiscal-year-2021), the company reported earnings of $328 million for February-April. This is more than double the amount earned during the same period last year, when it made $122 million. It even exceeded the expectations of the service itself a couple of months ago ($200 million);

?Hong Kong may lose everything, including startups (https://www.it-world.ru/it-news/it/153899.html): the US is revoking its special status. Donald Trump's decision to strip Hong Kong of its special status in response to the adoption of a new Chinese national security law, which effectively deprives this autonomy of independence, threatens startups operating within this administrative unit.

That's all for now. Wishing everyone a productive week! Take care of yourselves!