Prospects and Specifics of the Use of Digital Technologies in Modern Russian Business

The global economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has become a powerful incentive for the introduction of digital technologies in all areas—public administration, business, education, health care and even sports. The aim of the study is to study pandemic-related changes in Russian business, highlight key trends in the field of digitalization of Russian companies and determine the optimal types of IT systems for automatic generation of process models. The main tasks were to find out how the pandemic and related changes in lifestyle influenced plans for digitalization of companies, how approaches to analyzing business processes and their transformation have changed, which technologies have turned out to be the most effective. The methodology used was a systemic approach, logical methods, namely: analysis and synthesis, comparison and comparison, a method of logical interpretation; observation as an empirical research method. The results of the study are the identification of global digitalization trends and specific features of the digital transformation of Russian companies. Changes that occurred in Russian business due to the COVID-19 pandemic were investigated; maintrends in the field of digitalization of Russian companies are highlighted; studied the main types of IT systems for automatic generation of process models. The novelty of the work consists in proposals for using the most efficient types of IT systems for automatic generation of process models. The practical significance of the study includes conclusions about the need for a digital transformation of the business through the introduction of crowdsourcing systems for modeling business processes, taking into account the requirements of the modern economy.