• Consulting merits

    CPE Middle East has a proven track record in terms of consulting in the Middle East as well as in Europe and Asia. The need on the market exists and can be observed in different manners.

    First, a disconnect between the security requirements and the solution implemented is often observed. This is generally due to a lack of clarity in the security processes that the solution must support.

    CCTV system is a tool to support security processes. Even though the presence of cameras can have a deterrent effect, the full benefit is achieved when the CCTV support clear processes from a surveillance, interception and investigation support point of view.

    Secondly, even though modern security systems are using a lot of IP networking and ICT components (storage, computers), there is a major difference between implementation of a security solution and an IT solution.

    For instance, storage systems have been designed and optimized to manage IT data, very transactional in essence driven by ERP or email applications for instance.
    Applying the same products to video archiving will reveal challenges, as video is certainly not transactional but a continuous, 24x7 stream of data coming to the storage system. It requires a very high number of disk operations per seconds to write the incoming video without loosing frames. There is a possibility the data might not even be accessed at all, unless a problem occurs. 97% of access are statistically within a 3 days buffer.

    Our customers

    Our customers taking advantage of leveraging through collaboration on consulting services can be grouped into two categories - system integrators and end users. Each category varies in the needs and portfolio of activities being mutually done.

    System Integrators
    • Internal needs for bid preparation, planning for project delivery, solution architecture
    • Reselling CPE consulting services to end users and use CPE personal as badged contractor

    End Users
    • Gap analysis
    • Solution design
    • Tender specifications and bid document evaluation
    • Technology assessment
    • Audit and hand over protocol before sign off of a project
    • The scope of our consulting services cover the whole spectrum of needs.
  • Consulting levels

    Level 5, 6 & 7 consulting
    • Issues identification
      • Risk & hazard assessment / Relative risk ranking
    • Solution Design
      • Design of functional solutions (People, Processes, Technology)
    Level 4 consulting
    • Vendor assessment
      • Alignment with specified needs (ability to support security processes)
    • Specific development requirements
      • Application integration, communication, gateways, custom development
    Level 3 consulting
    • Vendor / Technology evaluation
      • Technology specification, implementation, procedures
      • Evaluation, benchmarking
    • Application architecture design (in IT terms)
      • Architecture, topology, manageability, data
    Level 2 consulting
    • Data Center design
      • Network, computing resources, data management, business continuity
    Level 1 consulting
    • Vendor / components selection
      • Benchmarking, evaluation, testing, compliance, integration
      • Support, services, SLA, ranking
  • Deliverables

    Program Office
    • Quality assurance
      • On time / in budget project delivery
      • Monitoring
      • Processes
    • Project based Risk Management
      • Identify / anticipate
      • Mitigation
      • Loopback impact on project
    • Overall organization and communication model and processes
    Solution design
    • Building processes and structure technologies
    • Design of functional requirements & processes
    • Gap analysis
    • Selection of best technology blocks
    • Alignment with functional requirements
    • Compatibility matrix
    • Integration requirements
    RFP Consultancy
    • Objective definition
    • Business requirements
    • Technical specifications
    • Definition of acceptance criteria
    • Evaluation of bids
    Technical consultancy
    • Selection and set up of edge devices
    • Network design and topology
    • Software design, parameters and architecture
    • Integration principles and techniques