ELAR

ELAR - Electronic Archive Corp., Russia 
Founded: Feb. 1992

Position
Russia and world leader in creation of electronic archives, imaging databases, digital collections
Project developer of enterprise document–based ECM infrastructures, modern electronic information systems for business and governmental sectors
Professional provider of industrial scanning/archiving equipment and turn–key solutions
Europe largest producer of digital document processing, scanning and indexing services.

Structure
Privately owned corporation of business and production companies

Mission
To promote informational and technological progress of Society and the State.

Coverage
HQ and 3 plants in Moscow, branches in Saint–Petersburg, Zelenograd, Tver, Tobolsk, Tyumen, Volgograd, Norilsk, Kazan, Almaty (Kazakhstan) and Kiev (Ukraine), 15 mobile workshop teams to provide scanning at remote customer’s sites.

Data
Number of employees – 2,370 (Q4.2007)
Consolidated turnover 2007 – 2.2 billion rubles
Total number of documents digitized – around 1/4 billion (Q3.2008)
Overall digitizing performance – 7.1 million doc. per month (average.2007)
Number of production scanners in use – 187 (Q4.2007)
Certification: ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management System

General projects objectives
To provide document and archive contents for governmental agencies
To preserve and develop the National heritage
To implement highly efficient corporate ECM solutions
To provide digital on–line access to paper–based documents