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electronic content management systems,
telecommunications infrastructure, and
security solutions ranging from integrated
perimeter security ground radar, sensors,
thermal imaging and video surveillance to
access control and video analytics.
Technology Partners’ currently employs
over 80 information technology and
telecommunications professionals across
the Middle East and North Africa region.
Formed in 1997, Technology
Partners has been focused on delivering
the MENA region’s most complex
telecommunications and Smart Grid
infrastructure and services projects.
The company started as a professional
consultancy offering international start-
ups a foothold in the Middle East.
In 2003, the company expanded to
take an active role in the reconstruction
of critical IT and telecommunications
infrastructure in the country of Iraq to
help facilitate its progression into a new
era of economic and social freedom.
Technology Partners Iraq
Since 2003, Technology Partners has
taken an active role in ICT construction
projects for Iraq Government entities
such as the Prime Minister’s Office,
the Ministries of Oil, Electricity and
Communications. Technology Partners
Iraq operates from offices in Baghdad,
Erbil, and Basra.
In 2008, Technology Partners became
the country’s first Microsoft Gold Partner
and was awarded Iraq’s first certified
Cisco Silver Partnership in 2009. In 2012,
Technology Partners became the first SAP
Gold Partner in Iraq. Technology Partners
represents SAP in the Region and also
delivers ERP solutions across these target
industries, and established partnerships
with Dell EMC, Oracle, and other world-
class vendors complete the portfolio.
It is able to offer both in-country and
out-of-country accreditation training
for many of these companies. The Iraqi
employee base consists entirely of Iraqi
nationals who are all able to operate
throughout the country.
Technology Partners’ primary activities
are centred on industry-focused business
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According to Frost & Sullivan, the Iraqi oil and gas sector will attract 21% of the external trillion-
dollar investment over the next ten years.
units: utility smart grid solutions, local
and federal government software, security
and digital city solutions, the oil and gas
industry, with a specific focus on the Iraq
oil and gas sector, and telecommunications
infrastructure and software solutions
for regional GSM operators,
telecommunications and service providers.
Technology Partners’ Smart Grid
solutions encompass the entire utility
value chain, from consumer meter
reading, to delivery, provisioning and
integration of backend software for meter
data management, customer care and
billing systems. Technology Partners’
security solutions extends from municipal
video surveillance to sophisticated
perimeter protection of sensitive areas
utilising integrated ground radar, activity-
triggered sensors, thermal imagers and
video analytics, provided, if required,
through its US ITAR-registered subsidiary,
Technology Partners Federal Systems.
The Iraq oil and gas sector are
currently going through very rapid
expansion, as joint ventures with the Iraq
regional oil companies are expanding
operations to meet Iraq’s aggressive oil
production targets from the current 2.1
million barrels per day, to a targeted 8–12
million bpd by 2017. Technology Partners
is assisting in this growth by providing a
broad range of critical communications
and security infrastructure:
Core green field communications
infrastructure across the oil field sites is
required to deliver everything from field
camp life support systems to digital oil field
real time process control and state-of-
the-art security systems, which requires a
multi-layered, multi-technology, converged
network approach that encompasses fibre
and copper cabling, WiFi, WiMAX and
microwave wireless technologies, and high
capacity VSAT and fibre backhaul.
SAP ERP is the preferred back
office solution for the world’s major oil
companies. Technology Partners is the
only SAP Gold Partner with the ability to
deploy, integrate, support and maintain
SAP solutions in Iraq. Technology Partners
has been selected by the Iraq Ministry of
Oil to deploy its ERP system nationwide.
Security systems are mission critical
to Iraq oil field operations. Technology
Partners leverages the convergence of
communications technology with the
latest security applications and products.
It delivers integrated solutions as diverse
as pipeline intrusion detection systems,
video surveillance and access control,
ground radar, thermal imaging, PA GA
systems, and ground and air data and
voice communications.
Projects in Iraq
During 2011 and 2012 Technology
Partners completed three ICT
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