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| Type | Private Company |
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| Founded | 1991 |
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
| Key people | Boris Nuraliev (President) |
| Products | Computer software, Video games |
| Website | www.1c.ru games.1c.ru |
1C Company (Russian: Фирма "1С") is one of the largest independent Russian software developers and publishers. Its headquarters are in Moscow, Russia. It is best known outside of the former Soviet Union as a video game developer; however, in the internal Russian market 1C is a leader in business software as well. 1C's comprehensive business software suite 1C:Предприятие (1C:Predpriyatiye, 1C:Enterprise) has held an overwhelming market share for over a decade. 1C is also a leader in localizing and publishing Russian-language versions of international software. For instance, more than half of popular Western video games are licensed and published by 1C. The company has 550 employees, 5,300 business partners, 3,300 authorized retailers, 1,200 training centers, 200 authorized certification locations and over 280 stores in 100 cities.
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History
1C was founded in 1991[1] by Boris Nuraliev in Moscow, Russia. The company goal was to provide a software solution to business owners giving them a system that required little or no accounting and development experience.
1C:Ino-Co, founded as Ino-Co, was acquired in 2007. In February 2008, 1C merged with Soft Club (another Russian game publisher and distibutor).[2]. Buka Entertainment in Prague, founded in 1993, was acquired in 2008[1].
Business software
While virtually unknown in the West, 1C:Предприятие (1C:Enterprise) is a market leader in Russia. The comprehensive suite, current version being 8.1.13, includes Accounting, Contact Management, Inventory Management, Document Management, Web Client, and more. The suite is used by tens of thousands of Russian corporations. 1C was one of the first Russian private companies to be awarded with the Russian Federation Government Award in Science in 2002 for development and implementation of 1C:Предприятие.
1C also develops and distributes other popular applications from well-known Russian companies such as Kaspersky Lab, ABBYY, Promt and others.
Entertainment software
1C is perhaps the best known outside of Russia for developing the famous IL-2 Sturmovik line of flight sims that includes Forgotten Battles and Pacific Fighters. 1C has also developed Theatre Of War which is a World War II land-based game published in the west by Battlefront.com; 1C has a long history of in-house development, as well as funding independent developers. Other notable games funded and/or developed by 1C include Soldiers: Heroes of WWII and the sequel Faces of War, the Silent Storm series, Pirates of the Caribbean, and King's Bounty: The Legend, among others. It has been announced that some of their past games will be republished by Atari on Nintendo's Virtual Console. In the future, the company will publish Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason.
References
- ^ a b 1C COMPANY AND BUKA LTD. ANNOUNCE ACQUISITION DEAL Buka website, July 2008
- ^ Joint press-release of «1C» and «Soft Club» // February 24, 2009 (Russian)
External links
- (Russian) 1C's site
- (Russian) 1C Games
- (English) 1C Games
- (English) 1C:Enterprise
- 1C Company entry at MobyGames
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