Yandex has combined B2B technologies and tools into one business area

«Yandex has created a new business direction, Yandex B2B Tech, to work in the B2B (Business-to-Business) field. The new business group will combine relevant technologies and tools, including cloud products Yandex Cloud and Yandex 360. Yandex expects that the market size in which the new division will operate will grow to 510 billion rubles. in 2028 from 240 billion rubles. in the current one. The average annual growth rate (CAGR) during this period will be about 21%

It is reported that the new structure will offer customers comprehensive solutions in various areas, including:

• Platform for creating and managing cloud infrastructure: Compute Cloud, Yandex BareMetal, Object Storage, SmartCaptcha, Smart Web Security, Security Deck, etc.;
• Full cycle platform for data processing and storage: YDB, Data Transfer, etc.;
• Tools for communications and collaboration: Mail, Disk, Teleconference, Documents, Tracker, Messenger and Yandex Browser for organizations;
• Business solutions based on AI: YandexGPT,l YandexART, SpeechKit, SpeechSense, DataSphere, etc.;
• Tools for developers: Yandex Code Assistant, SourceCraft, Managed Kubernetes, etc.;
• Services for data visualization and analysis, including Yandex DataLens.

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Corporate users will be able to use Yandex B2B Tech services either in the cloud (*aaS or via API) or on their own servers (on-premise). According to a Yandex press release, the on-premise format is new for the company, but it sees demand for it from clients who want to store and process data within the organization. In this format, the company already provides access to the YDB DBMS, generative language model technology that can create YandexGPT texts, SpeechKit speech recognition and synthesis technologies, as well as the DataLens BI tool.