Online interactive service for global asset protection and operational support solutions
(25/02/2008)

In an environment where assets are at risk, many organisations don’t have the luxury of time, or they are aware of only a small handful of suppliers who actually may not be able to provide exactly what is needed.

Effective global risk management and operational resilience requires many mutually supporting tools to ensure the success of an enterprise, nationally and internationally. Aprodex (www.aprodex.com) brings these together under one roof in a comprehensive classification of services targeting those who require them, and promoting those who supply them.

Aprodex is an online interactive service for global asset protection and operational support solutions and provides a resource for organizations operating in environments where their critical assets are at potential, imminent or immediate risk from threats posed by terrorism; political, regional and local instability; trans-national and cyber crime; remote locations operations, environmental hazards, climate change and natural disasters.

Organisations can leverage the business development and networking services of Aprodex through the Business Bulletin Board and Index Advance Search options to source enterprise risk management and practical, immediate “on-the-ground” operational support services to protect and sustain human, physical and information assets; enhance operational capability; increase corporate resilience and create the environment for humanitarian relief, reconstruction, and emerging market investment.

Launching the new service, Andrew Thompson, Aprodex Managing Director, highlighted the benefits of the service’s broad reach and interactivity. “Security, as seen in the traditional sense, is but one element of a much broader requirement. In the modern global economy, with heightened corporate responsibilities, the “security need” is more than just a man on gate, but incorporates a plethora of services such as life support logistics, training and procurement, risk analysis and consulting, technological innovation, and the recruitment of properly qualified and experienced personnel”.

Aprodex was conceived as a result of several years’ practical experience of military, corporate and non-governmental operations in high-risk environments where immediate operational need was often hampered by the inability to source relevant products and services in a timely fashion. Taken in conjunction with the perceived lack of development opportunities in a relatively “closed” business environment, the two naturally lend themselves to Aprodex.

Mr Thompson continues: “To understand and source the key players in the market place – who they are, what they provide, where they operate and how they can help solve your specific problem – can be an extremely time consuming activity.
Aprodex enables organisations to post an exact requirement in one place, and have solutions find them, whilst concurrently giving providers the platform to showcase themselves to the wider audience.”

The Information, Business Development Consultancy and Networking Services offered by Aprodex have been encouragingly received by the industry, with many top-name organisations expressing their support by registering their profiles on-line.

The British Association of Private Security Companies (BAPSC) has endorsed the Service in recognition of the reputational advantage given to its Member companies by profiling their mutual association.

Andrew Thompson, Aprodex Managing Director, is a former British Army officer with extensive experience of operations in hostile and high-risk environments. These range from military operations in Northern Ireland and the Balkans, to commercial and non-governmental security risk and crisis management consultancy, and operational support projects in the UK and across the Middle East, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen, Kuwait, and Iraq - often in support of ex-British Special Forces personnel.

For general enquiries, email info@aprodex.com or Director athompson@aprodex.com