Corporatek - IT Systems Group

Within a technological and economic landscape characterized by:
	The proliferation and convergence of telecommunications and computer systems technologies.
	The equipment and software manufacturers who, facing the globalization of world markets and higher production costs, tend to produce equipment that are more and more generic while the real needs of clients require systems that are more and more specific.
	The system architectures that are becoming more and more proprietary and hence closed, while the needs of clients call for architectures that are more and more open.
	The IT service providers who are more focused on acquisitions and mergers than on providing total and integrated solutions.

The mission of Corporatek's IT Systems Group is to provide its clients with independent and sound professional consulting and systems integration services in order to help them equip themselves with fully integrated and open telecommunications and computer networks systems.

The Environment Information Age. Telecommunications explosion. Microprocessors. Computer systems. Radiocommunications networks, private or shared, conventional or trunked. Operating systems, open or proprietary. Application software. Network interfaces, gateways, switches, routers. Mobile computers. Cellular radiotelephony. Paging systems. PCS. GSM. UMTS. Automatic vehicle location systems. Records management systems and computer-aided dispatch systems. Microwave and optical links. Analog or digital communications. Scrambling or encryption. Operational impacts of telecommunications. Socio-cultural effects of user’s mobility. Voice, data and image transmission. Industrial standards. Compliance with regulations. Frequency, time or code division multiple access. Centralized or distributed architectures. Arborescent or meshed topologies. Response time and delay characteristics. Network throughput. System reliability. Performance levels. Network economics. Voice, data and image transmission. Frequency scarcity and radio spectrum congestion. Globalization. Convergence. Distributed Computing. Internet. Intranet. Extranet… Corporatek's Telecommunications Systems Competency In this maze of uncertainties and of incongruences, Corporatek's Telecommunications Systems Competency brings to its clients a comprehensive sound, wise and rational range of services that start with genuine consulting expertise and end with the provision of entire end-to-end turnkey telecommunications installations. Domains of expertise The scope of Corporatek’s Telecommunications Systems Group's expertise covers the full array of know-how and capabilities shaping the present and the future of the telecommunications industry:
	Trunked radiocommunications systems
	Mobile digital data radiocommunications systems
	Integrated voice-data telecommunications systems
	Police departments records management systems
	Fire departments records management systems
	Computer-aided dispatch systems
	Automatic vehicle location systems
	Supervisory, control and data acquisition systems
	Underground radiocommunications systems
	Civil Cryptophonic and cryptographic systems
	Computer-assisted operations systems
	Computer networks
	Radio and TV broadcast systems
	Electronic commerce

Scope of Services In a world of integrated technologies, Corporatek's Telecommunications Systems Group offers integrated services and extols a "Total Service Approach". Hence, its principal services include:
	User requirements definition and validation
	Master plans
	Feasibility studies
	Preliminary designs and comparative analyses
	Detailed engineering
	Cost/benefit analyses
	Establishment of performance criteria
	Definition of technical and operational documentation standards
	Project planning
	Definition of installation and integration standards
	Strategic Planning
	Maintenance standards
	Transition plans
	Project Management
	Supply of turnkey systems
From concept to completion, Corporatek's Telecommunications Systems Group never leaves its clients with loose ends.

Differentiators Corporatek's Telecommunications Systems Group strongly believes that in an integrated world, the operational, functional, organizational and economic choices facing its clients are also integrated. Integrated by their multiplicity, integrated in their complexity and integrated by their very nature. To these choices, Corporatek's Telecommunications Systems Group brings an in-depth vision of telecommunications and computer systems technologies as well as one of the most complete team of engineers, computer systems specialists and project managers in its domains of expertise. At the right time, we are there with the right ideas, with the right approach and with the right people and resources to do the job our clients entrust us with. The true differentiator of a Total Services Provider...

Corporatek's IT Systems Group has long recognized the significance and impact of future-oriented software solutions such as distributed computing and adaptive object-oriented software engineering. As a result we have created the Corporatek Computing Systems Consulting and Integration Competency (CCSC) with the mission of providing its clients with a rational and streamlined approach to their IT needs.

CCSC is strongly committed to open systems solutions and implementation methodologies and focuses on adapting IT solutions to the organizational, management, operational and economic realities of its clients.

CCSC also leverages the knowledge and skills of Corporatek's Telecommunications Systems and Corporatek's IT Strategy Consulting Competency in order to ensure that our clients benefit and continue to benefit from all the advantages of integration and convergence.

	Enterprise-wide computerized solutions
	Application lifecycle management solutions
	Software testing
	Decision support tools
	Application development information
	Enterprise modeling
	Enterprise management
	Database performance management and analysis
	Change and configuration management
	Data transformation and transmission
	Process and project management
	Network configuration and management
	Wireless networks configuration and management

Corporatek's IT Strategy Consulting Competency helps its clients devise IT strategies and implementation methodologies that enable them to adapt and thrive in a rapidly changing world.
CITC's methodological framework is centered around two main objectives: flexibility and action.

	We perform precise evaluations of the adequacy of our client's strategy as a function of its internal and external realities: the rapid transformations and profound mutations of its sectors of activities and of its markets on one hand, and its technologies, internal processes and human resources, on the other.
	We are constantly present with our clients during the implementation of the devised strategy, bring into focus all corrective actions and unite our expertise to that of our clients to endow them with the core competencies required to give full force to the adopted strategy and to its evolution.
	We carry out intense research work, robust syntheses and make realistic forecasts of the impact of the devised strategy on the nature of our client's business over a period of 3 to 5 years.
	We make sure that the adopted strategy does not become a rigid and static operational framework but, rather, a dynamic and adaptive scheme of reference, catalyst of agility and fast response time to precursory signs of change.
	We circumvent the ease of succumbing to the "business-as-usual" syndrome by embedding into the devised strategy all the mechanisms and processes that guarantee a sound management of the intellectual assets of our clients.
	We confer to the devised strategy the utmost important characteristic of constantly encouraging, even requiring, a symbiotic approach to all the internal processes at all decision-making levels.
	We leverage our IT knowledge and experience to ensure the use, the fluidity and the transparency of decision-making tools in all daily activities of our clients and not only for major decisions such as acquisitions or mergers.

A multidimensional approach to IT Management Consulting... This is the hallmark of Corporatek's IT Management Competency. While flexible and tailored to the specific requirements of our clients, our contribution derives the breadth of its scope, its strength and its value from the depth and cohesion that we apply to the following tasks:

	The precise definition of the enterprise's values, general policies and managerial processes
	The strategic segmentation of the enterprise's activities
	All the external analyses related to the enterprise including, but not limited to, its market, its competitive environment, the competencies required to strive in its market as well as the parameters of evolution and growth
	All the internal analyses including those related to the technologies and know-how mastered by the enterprise, its research and development capabilities and plans, its production methods, its distribution channels, its human resources, its finances, its internal processes and its telecommunications and information technologies infrastructure
	The synthesis of all the results and distinctive patterns for the purposes of clearly defining the positioning of the enterprise in its market and establishing its most profitable products and services portfolio

In carrying out these activities, we constantly leverage the competencies of all other Corporatek's Consulting and Systems Integration Groups to provide our clients with a complete framework of decision and action.

The new paradigms of the ICS Ecosystem...
Today's Information, Communications and Security (ICS) Ecosystem is an immense undertaking; in fact, it can be conceptually viewed as larger and more encompassing than the infrastructured and non-infrastructured other human undertakings combined.
The rationale underlying this view emanates from the fact that the ICS Ecosystem must cater to the global requirements of an environment where people live, work, learn, interact, research and communicate multidimensionally. Moreover, it is a well known fact that the ICS Ecosystem is unique in the sense that it possesses this peculiarity that it is constantly outgrowing itself.

The range of information and communications technologies that can be contemplated in the framework of the ICS Ecosystem is therefore commensurately wide.

In light of the above, we feel that the conceptualization, planning, design and implementation of literally any IT project within the global ICS Ecosystem requires a quasi-surgical application of the right technologies with a clear vision on the most promising ones. Within the realm of this endeavor, we strongly believe that we should be guided by the following precepts and governances:

Rational Forward Thinking
Today’s technological hype is an extremely fertile ground for decision makers and users to succumb to the “Technological Excesses Syndrome”. In this context, “Technology” becomes an end in itself instead of being a tool or a set of tools for increased productivity and better living. This syndrome is unfortunately fostered by several major and dominant equipment vendors and software manufacturers to achieve short-term financial or market share gains.
While forward thinking is one of the most important prerequisites to protect the ICS Ecosystem against premature obsolescence, we believe that a clear vision of the most promising standards and technologies, their strengths and weaknesses and, in particular, the durability of their commercial and technical viability and support is also a prerequisite of paramount importance. In fact, in its essence, forward thinking cannot be but rational forward thinking.

Loose Coupling and Tight Integration
By its very nature, any serious IT undertaking within the global ICS Ecosystem requires a plethora of different systems and facilities, all within a single framework. Examples are computers, wireless communications and location devices, smart cards, biometric devices, fiber optic circuits, etc.On the other hand, this profusion of devices and facilities (hardware and software) must render complementary and convergent services. For example, computers are required for normal computation tasks but they are also required to program and control smart cards or biometric devices.

Hence, the precept of “Loose Coupling and Tight Integration”. Loose coupling is imposed by the nature of the systems and devices and is required to achieve such design goals as high global system availability and maintainability while tight integration is required to achieve such other important design goals as the zero-latency networking and transparency to the users.

Systems and subsystems Congruence
Closely related to and axiomatic of the Loose Coupling and Tight Integration precept, the Systems and subsystems Congruence precept is an absolute planning and design necessity in order to circumvent the probabilities of impingement of the various systems and subsystems on one another. In an incongruent ensemble of systems and subsystems, the probabilities of impingement may arise, for example, from the competition of systems and subsystems for the same resources such as bandwidth or computational power.

Harmonious Juxtaposition
In view of the increasing polymorphism of so-called “intelligent” or software-enabled devices, the architectural layers that define the boundaries between a physical infrastructure and the services it renders tend to be more blurred and, sometimes, fade away. Therefore, we believe that a wiser and more realistic approach to system conceptualization, planning and design is the Harmonious Juxtaposition Approach which is based, as its name indicates, on judicious and coherent juxtaposition of systems, subsystems, devices and services instead of layering them artificially.

Other precepts and governances related to the new paradigms of the ICS Ecosystem include architectural robustness, systems resilience, understanding the layers of abstraction, the canonical evolution modeling, and the concepts of systems and subsystems granularity.

To obtain the white paper "The new paradigms of the ICS Ecosystem", please contact us at info@corporatek.com

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Telecommunications

Computing Systems

Strategy

Management Consulting

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