Business consultants. Specialize in the start up of firms, finding contacts in government and at universities, selection of partners, business plans and legal assistance, getting information and market research. The consulting market is mostly located in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg. The structure of Russian business consulting and auditing market, according to "Expert RA" is: 65% for auditing and 35 % for consulting.
From the onset of the 1998 crisis, businessmen, who had run into trouble, tried to solve their difficulties as inexpensively as possible: they bought software for financial analysis, minimized taxes, improved accounting systems, and cut personnel and wage costs. The crisis, however, did not significantly affect the the market for business consulting services. Both the overall volume and each branch of consulting experienced growth. The growth was in the legal and tax consulting, in management and business consulting. Information technology also grew significantly.

System Integration. Companies that provide traditional management consulting and auditing services include: Andersen Consulting, KPMG, Price Watehouse.
Companies that produce computer equipment and software for data management include: Digital Equipment, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Oracle (Computers Hardware).
Companies that specialized in the fields of information technology include: CSC, EDS, Perot Systems. System integration is a really spectrum of services: analysis of business, reengineering of business processes and creation of information infrastructure.