Showing posts with label Symphony Teleca. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 10, 2014

Symphony Teleca to Acquire Aditi Technologies

Symphony Teleca Corporation (STC) announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Aditi Technologies (Aditi), a rapidly growing leader in cloud-led modern application development. With the acquisition, STC extends its leadership in innovation to drive clients’ revenue growth by being able to uniquely deliver Systems of Engagement (SoE). Aditi will serve as a strategic growth lever for STC through its design and cloud expertise, complementing STC’s engineering, mobile and analytics capabilities.

SoE are modern applications that businesses use to engage with their customers by utilizing the convergence of cloud, mobile and analytics. The SoE market is expected to grow from $33 billion in 2013 to $111 billion in 2020 (Source: Zinnov). The combined company will have unprecedented capabilities in delivering SoE based on analytics-powered modern apps and smart mobile devices. The company will serve a broad spectrum of customers spanning enterprises, independent software vendors and connected systems manufacturers.

The combined team includes 7,500 employees spread across a network of 40 global offices with innovation hubs in North and South America, Europe and Asia. The company is expected to experience 20 percent growth by the close of 2014. Aditi will continue to operate as a new division of STC under the leadership of Pradeep Rathinam.

“Symphony Teleca and Aditi are both leaders in innovation and I welcome Aditi to the Symphony Teleca team,” said Romesh Wadhwani, chairman of Symphony Teleca Corporation and founder, chairman and CEO of Symphony Technology Group. “We take pride in our commitment to help our customers realize the huge potential that cloud, mobile and analytics present. This acquisition is further evidence of our commitment and the combined team is the clear global leader in delivering product and solution development services that drive innovation-led growth for our clients.”
Commenting on the transaction, Brett Brinton, president and CEO of Zonar Systems, a customer of Aditi’s, adds, “At Zonar, staying out in front as an enterprise SaaS provider is a constant battle. Not only do you need to own the cloud with big data and analytics, but even more challenging is leveraging a complementary cutting edge mobile strategy. Aditi and Symphony Teleca bring together deep competency around these three strategic levers. For us, this is a dream come true.”
Symphony Teleca’s acquisition of Aditi will accelerate its mission to be the innovation partner of choice for customers, helping to drive their growth agendas through SoE. SoE enable businesses to engage with customers in a more compelling way, analyze customer behavior and create personalized experiences, while increasing customer loyalty and revenue across multiple channels. SoE are built for scale, cloud-based and consumed on smart mobile devices as the point of engagement with customers. They connect back-end enterprise software with front-end mobile software and are supercharged with big data analytics. SoE require a radically new high speed, agile approach to development at the convergence of enterprise software, mobile software, user experience design and big data analytics.
Both parties are working to obtain certain procedural regulatory approvals to formally close the transaction. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Avendus Capital was the lead financial advisor for Aditi for this transaction.
Symphony Teleca President and CEO Sanjay Dhawan said, “The acquisition creates a unique force that will help today’s businesses drive their growth agendas and improve business agility by harnessing the power of analytics, modern applications and smart devices.”
“The confluence of intelligent devices, cloud and analytics is the next breakthrough business opportunity for our customers. Joining forces with STC positions us as an innovation catalyst for our customers by helping them engage and understand their customers," said Pradeep Rathinam, CEO of Aditi.

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Symphony Teleca Bolsters Software Products and Platform (SPP) Division with Strategic New Hires

Symphony Teleca Bolsters Software Products and Platform (SPP) Division with Strategic New Hires
Symphony Teleca Corporation (STC), a global innovation and development services company, today announced two key additions to its Software Products and Platform (SPP) division: Udaykumar Nalinasekaran as Head of Global Delivery and Sunil Oberoi as SVP and Global Business Head for Retail, Brands, and Omni-channel Commerce.
Uday joins Symphony Teleca from HCL Technologies where he worked for 30 years. Most recently, Uday served as HCL’s Executive Vice President leading a $600M business line. He is credited with building significant delivery organizations, including a $100M annual run rate offshore delivery center for the worldwide leader in networking as well as one of the largest outsourced relationships for a leading provider of communications services. With his wealth of knowledge and experience across product engineering, IT services and process excellence, Uday will spearhead the consolidation of all SPP delivery across ISV, Enterprise IT and Infrastructure services with a view to build end-to-end industry specific vertical solutions. Uday will also be responsible for coaching the company’s next-generation of delivery leaders.
Sunil, a veteran in retail, brands and omni-channel commerce, brings expertise in business and technology to this new role, where he will be responsible for identifying and driving growth in chosen market segments by enhancing STC’s domain competency, enterprise market positioning and vertical specific value propositions. Sunil comes to STC from HCL Technologies where he managed the company’s strategy and execution of commerce business globally. Prior to this position, Sunil worked to drive high growth in HCL’s retail segment in Americas, adding a number of Fortune 500 logos to the practice. Before that, Sunil was a practice leader with Deloitte Consulting and held several leadership positions with Wipro to build its retail and consumer business in North America.
“We are thrilled to have both Uday and Sunil on board and look forward to their contribution in leading STC’s foray into the enterprise segment,” said Sandeep Kalra, EVP and General Manager of the SPP Division, Symphony Teleca. “We feel confident that Uday will build on our delivery capabilities, while Sunil’s demonstrated leadership will be key to STC securing a strong foothold in retail, brands and omni-channel commerce as we charge into these vertical markets.”
“I look forward to helping the SPP division deliver next generation industry solutions leveraging the various building blocks across Symphony Teleca,” says Uday. “I believe that the next level of growth in enterprise IT will be led by new age companies like Symphony Teleca, leveraging its core product engineering tenets coupled with the cloud, mobile and Infrastructure capabilities making us even more strategic to our existing and prospective customers.”
“I am looking forward to helping Symphony Teleca to establish a strong presence in the retail, brand and omni-channel commerce space,” said Sunil. “It is an exciting time to join the company as it makes its foray into enterprise vertical markets leveraging its strong capabilities across ISV’s, enterprise and analytics customer base.”

Monday, August 12, 2013

Symphony Teleca Advances Development of Innovative Connected TV and Set-Top Box Solutions

Symphony Teleca Corporation, a global innovation and development services company, announced that through its license as a Reference Design Kit (RDK) scaling partner and systems integrator, it has been developing an innovative portfolio of RDK-based solutions, integration and testing services, built on the RDK software stack, which provides a streamlined approach to the development and deployment of advanced set-top, gateway, and system-on-a-chip (SoC) platforms.

Earlier this summer, Symphony Teleca unveiled its TweeTV application as an example of how it is providing design and innovation to the RDK ecosystem. The Twitter hashtag-based guide to social TV watching and interactive Twitter and TV mashup is optimized for an immersive 10-foot experience. Tweets containing an event’s hashtag are displayed as an overlay or crawl, accessed by browsing an alternative user interface that tag-clouds TV content based on trending hashtags.

Symphony Teleca also will offer a full suite of services built upon the RDK, including RDK stack porting; customization of the RDK for MSO; RDK optimization; Adobe Flash, Adobe Access, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, and Microsoft PlayReady porting; test & validation; interface design and full application development using Symphony Teleca’s Center of Excellence for Video and Audio Professional Software Services.

The Reference Development Kit (RDK) is a pre-integrated software bundle that powers tru2way, IP or hybrid set-top boxes and works with the CableLabs OCAP Reference Implementation software along with other open source components.   Comcast licenses the RDK to OEMs, systems integrators, SOCs, software vendors, and MVPDs to create a community of innovators focused on bringing rich, multi-screen TV home entertainment experiences to consumers faster.

“The RDK significantly improves the set-top box development cycle for Symphony Teleca, enabling us to develop more interactive, rich and personalized home entertainment solutions, and more easily provide a full range of services within the connected TV and set-top box development lifecycle,” said Andrew Till, Senior Vice President of Mobile and Media Devices, Symphony Teleca. “Our deep expertise in set-top box development, ideation, and commercial grade software engineering based on RDK ensures that device vendors stay ahead of the curve in innovation.”


About Symphony Teleca

Symphony Teleca Corporation, headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., is the world’s first services company dedicated exclusively to helping clients manage the global convergence of software, the cloud and connected devices. The company delivers innovative products combined with contemporary product development, systems integration, analytics and managed services to hundreds of organizations around the world. Symphony Teleca’s 6,000 employees support customers from 32 offices globally, including delivery centers in Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas.  For more information visit www.symphonyteleca.com.