The paper presents the analysis of Russia’s energy system functioning, as well as of major enterprises and their analogues in the world, taking into account the negative impact of global financial and economic crisis on their business. This analysis shows the importance of sustainable and sound development of the industry. It is concluded that the dynamic processes of innovation and technological development, the continuous search for new sources of energy, the growing needs of society and its economy; - all these pose problems which are impossible to solve without the use of new information technologies in controlling the entire system of Russia’s national security with energy supplies. In particular, the article discusses the principle and the specificity of functioning of the ERP-system.

power system, power industry, ERP-systems, functions of an ERP-system, strategy of power industry development

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