Secure corporate messenger eXpress for PhosAgro received the Digital Leaders Award

The joint project to implement the eXpress corporate messenger in the PhosAgro group of companies was awarded a prize in the field of digitalization. Digital Leaders Award 2025. The solution was recognized as "Platform of the Year" in the "Information Security" category. The awards ceremony took place on May 26 in Moscow at the end of the Digital Time forum, where leading Russian companies shared their practices and developments in the field of digital products and services.

The honorary award was received by the project representatives: Fedor Belugin, Head of the Information Systems Development and Maintenance Department of JSC Apatit (PhosAgro Group), and Alexey Lyamin, co-founder of the corporate communications platform eXpress.

In 2024, PhosAgro Group began implementing the eXpress corporate messenger to replace the foreign solution Microsoft Teams. Currently, about 5,000 employees of the company conduct work communications in the corporate messenger. They have access to all the functions of a modern messenger, a search for users in the corporate directory, a special Outlook plugin and access to corporate mail and calendar directly from the corporate messenger using SmartApps graphical application technology.

The platform is continuing to scale across the entire company, and today it is ready to provide a stable service for 10,000 corporate users at PhosAgro.

“The introduction of a secure corporate messenger is an important step towards the digital sovereignty of our company. It not only optimizes and increases the efficiency of internal communications, but also ensures a high level of security in terms of exchanging important corporate data,” said Fedor Belugin, Head of the Information Systems Development and Support Department at Apatit JSC (PhosAgro Group).