Company type | Defunct Company (acquired by Altran) |
---|---|
Industry | R&D Services |
Founded | 1985 (founding of Future Software Communications); 1991 (founding of Hughes Software Systems); merged after acquisition in 2004. |
Defunct | 2019 |
Headquarters |
Santa Clara, California and later
New York, New York (USA) Gurgaon, Haryana (India) |
Products | Product and service engineering (largely digital and software products and services) |
Number of employees | 10,000 [1] |
Aricent was a global design and engineering services company. It was acquired by French-based company Altran in 2018 and renamed Altran North America in April 2019 [2] and Altran Americas in early 2020. With Altran's acquisition by Capgemini, the successors of Aricent are incorporated into Capgemini Engineering and to a lesser extent, Capgemini Invent.
Aricent was best known for developing telecom software which is used by telecom giants such as Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Nokia Networks, Oracle, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, and Nortel.
Aricent is the successor to Hughes Software Systems, which was established in 1991, as a subsidiary of Hughes Electronics, [3] with funding from Sequoia Capital. [4] [5]
Company type | Defunct Company (acquired by Altran) |
---|---|
Industry | R&D Services |
Founded | 1985 (founding of Future Software Communications); 1991 (founding of Hughes Software Systems); merged after acquisition in 2004. |
Defunct | 2019 |
Headquarters |
Santa Clara, California and later
New York, New York (USA) Gurgaon, Haryana (India) |
Products | Product and service engineering (largely digital and software products and services) |
Number of employees | 10,000 [1] |
Aricent was a global design and engineering services company. It was acquired by French-based company Altran in 2018 and renamed Altran North America in April 2019 [2] and Altran Americas in early 2020. With Altran's acquisition by Capgemini, the successors of Aricent are incorporated into Capgemini Engineering and to a lesser extent, Capgemini Invent.
Aricent was best known for developing telecom software which is used by telecom giants such as Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Nokia Networks, Oracle, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, and Nortel.
Aricent is the successor to Hughes Software Systems, which was established in 1991, as a subsidiary of Hughes Electronics, [3] with funding from Sequoia Capital. [4] [5]