Challenges of developing a comprehensive import-independent national TIM solution

Abstract

In the conditions of transition to the digital economy, overcoming import dependence in the field of software becomes the most urgent goal for all participants in ensuring the country’s technological sovereignty. At present, the activities in a number of areas need to be streamlined and synchronized. These include, for example, strategic planning of digitalization, coordination of developers’ activities, ensuring their interaction with users, creating a system for their multi-user distributed collaboration, creating data converters and a common data format for the interchangeability of software products. The focusing on the use of national software products required studying the positions of the main participants of the process. The National Association of Organizations in the Field of Information Modeling Technologies conducted a survey on key issues, which resulted in the suggestions concerning the format and structure of the PromTIM digital map. The emphasis wad made on the lack of user and developer interaction mode, insufficient use of modern development practices (open-source approach, free testing, product approach, open API for development of own add-ons when creating PromTIM), lack of a stable mechanism of multiuser distributed collaborative activity for creating a digital information model, including the possibility of one-step collaboration, etc. The format and structure of the PromTIM digital map was developed.