Metinvest is ready to scale its IT solutions for customers in Ukraine and Europe

Metinvest Group is ready to scale its IT solutions to Ukrainian and European customers. This was stated by Sergiy Detiuk, Chief Information Officer and Member of the Management Board of Metinvest, at 2U Tech Forum.

Today, technology and innovation are no longer an additional advantage, but a basic condition for the competitiveness of a modern company.

Metinvest Digital was created to build a true technology platform for the Group to implement, replicate and support digital solutions. Today, it is a standalone IT company that serves as a single IT provider and digital partner for more than 30 Metinvest businesses around the world, including in Ukraine, Italy, the UK, Poland, Bulgaria and the US. The company employs more than 770 specialists in IT, analytics, security and automation.

Metinvest Digital develops, implements, and supports complex IT solutions for building technological infrastructure, developing information systems, strategic outsourcing, data migration, system integration, cybersecurity, and information protection.

According to Sergiy Detiuk, the company has come a long way in building its products and IT services, moving from hypotheses and MVPs to large-scale solutions and implementation.

Today, Metinvest Digital is one of the top five IT service companies in Ukraine. The company has its own R&D department, develops Data Science, Computer Vision, Industrial IoT, ML/AI, and cooperates with SAP, Microsoft, and other major vendors.

For more than five years of work, Metinvest Digital experts have developed many modern solutions. In particular, the group’s production facilities have implemented Computer Vision systems that analyze hazardous work areas and detect safety violations. And industrial drones, which operate under current restrictions, monitor raw material stocks.

Among the company’s landmark projects are:

• Machine Learning system to control the level of silicon in pig iron at Azovstal’s blast furnaces. The solution, implemented before the start of the full-scale war, helped Metinvest save more than $1 million a year.
• Metinvest Digital R&D Center, which works on process automation, analytics and visualization, as well as tests the integration of LLM and AI into production management.
• one of the largest digital transformations based on SAP solutions in Eastern Europe. Metinvest Digital has automated Metinvest’s business processes in virtually all areas of activity, implemented and effectively supports dozens of plants and thousands of users. The SAP partner status allows us to improve the quality and efficiency of implementing IT solutions based on SAP products for both the Group and external customers.

For several years, Metinvest Digital has been developing RPA (Robotic Process Automation) solutions that automate repetitive and routine operations using software robots. The latter imitate human actions by interacting with digital systems and applications such as ERP, CRM, databases, and web applications without the need to change the existing infrastructure.

In total, the company unites about 100 services, dozens of projects in the active phase, its own technological infrastructure, and also ensures the operation of a large industrial group during the war. The company’s external clients include Ukrnafta, Ukrtelecom, FUIB, and Medical Procurement of Ukraine.

“Our main focus is on our internal customers and the transformation of Metinvest Group companies. But we are ready to scale our experience and solutions to other Ukrainian and European customers. We have been doing this for several years and are well aware that there is a demand for our solutions in the market,” said Sergiy Detiuk.

Metinvest has been named one of the top ten strongest employers in Ukraine by the Business Capital magazine. The rating includes companies that demonstrate leadership in HR despite the war, economic difficulties and loss of assets. The main criteria include employee support, digital transformation, training, decent working conditions and social responsibility.