Thread by @nimkef

19 Sept 2016

[Translation from Russian]

Katyusha turned out to be a dark horse. According to Vedomosti, the company-developer of the system belongs to the company "Luka". Its general director Vladislav Klyushin & founder Olga Parshkova are the founders

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and directors of other companies, including the communication agency KA Shtab, which has several state contracts to its credit. As well as the company "M-11", related to real estate and construction. In other words, the pedigree of Katusha is not quite IT.

According to representatives of the company, the system was developed with the money of private investors without attracting public funds.

Despite the status of a newcomer, in an interview with Vedomosti, the general director of M13, Alexander Badikov, said that in addition to the press service of the president, Katyusha is also used in some subordinate organizations of the Ministry of Defense, as well as

other departments and structures of state power and in large commercial companies. At the same time, to a clarifying question from RIA Novosti, M 13 said that the company does not disclose detailed data on customers, and is not even ready to name their number.

According to certain external parameters, Katusha is inferior to Medialogia. According to Alexandra Doronina, Head of the Monitoring and Analysis Department of M13, the system consists of several modules and adapts to each customer individually in accordance with the requirements

Doronina also refuted the statements that appeared earlier in some media that the system does not support object-oriented search and the absence of paid feeds:

"We disclose the list of connected sources in the system only within the framework of the client agreement. I can say that there are paid tapes in the system."

"The project involves about 150 specialists: developers, linguists, analysts. In addition, we cooperate with a number of Russian manufacturers of software and hardware. For us, everything is equally important: the development of the source base, the improvement of

information collection and processing algorithms, and the system interface," says Doronina. This nature of the statements indicates that work on the system is very active.