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| Formerly | Teleca & Symphony Teleca |
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Telecom,Outsourcing |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | , United States |
Areas served | WorldwideAsia,Europe,North America |
| Revenue | $2.5 Billion (2014) |
Number of employees | 30,000+ (2018) |
| Parent | Harman International Industries |
| Website | Harman.com |
Harman Connected Services, often abbreviated toHCS, is an American software company which is a subsidiary ofSamsung Electronics throughHarman International Industries. The Connected Services Division supplies software services to the mobile communications industry. Harman has a workforce of approximately 30,000 people acrossthe Americas, Europe, andAsia.[1]
On January 22, 2015, Harman acquired Symphony Teleca from theSymphony Technology Group. The deal was valued at US$780 million. Symphony Telca was subsequently integrated and rebranded as Harman Connected Services and, in March 2017, Harman became awholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics.
Teleca was founded in 1992 by a team ofsoftware engineers, based inManchester. Over the coming years, Teleca's telecom software was utilized byMotorola, Racal, Digital, GEC,Hewlett-Packard,Psion, andSiemens. The presence in the market led to a number of majormobile device partnerships, which led them to expand their offering into the mobile phone market. These vendors includedNokia,Motorola andSonyEricsson.[2]
In early 2000, it was acquired bySigma AB, a leading Swedish engineering services business, and became its UK subsidiary.[citation needed] Following the takeover, Teleca expanded their workforce from 2,500 across Europe into a number of countries includingŁódź, Poland andSeoul, South Korea.[citation needed]
Teleca then acquired Telma Soft in 2006, a Russian-based software company. Over the next two years, Teleca opened a number of different locations up in both India and China.[3]
Symphony Technology Group announced in 2008 that they had acquired Teleca and delisted it from theStockholm stock exchange.[4] Later that year, Telma Soft was then rebranded to become the Russian Teleca operation.[3]
In 2013, the company had 9000+ employees in 35 countries with the largest number of employees in India spread across many locations, includingBangalore,Pune,Gurgaon andChennai.[citation needed]
Symphony services was founded in 2002 with initial financial support from Romesh T. Wadhwani, Chairman, CEO and founder of Symphony Technology Group. In 2003, Symphony raised growth capital from TH Lee Putnam Ventures. In 2004, Symphony Services purchased Stonehouse Technologies for $6.7 million.[5]
In 2010, Symphony Services acquiredProteans Software Solutions,[6] an Indian company engaged in providing software engineering services to the small and mediumISV space; followed byCoreObjects Software Inc,[7] aLos Angeles–based company specializes inembedded product development for technology companies.
In 2011, Symphony Services acquiredJPC Software, anArgentina entity that offers IT solutions, consulting and support services based inBuenos Aires.[8]
In 2012, Symphony Services Corporation merged withTeleca, creatingSymphony Teleca Corporation with a focus to help clients manage the global convergence of software, the cloud, and mobility. Following the purchase of Teleca, Symphony became Symphony Teleca and part of the Symphony Services division. The new services division focused on software product engineeringoutsourcing services and was headquartered inPalo Alto, California, with major global operations centers in the U.S., India and China.[9][10] The company was assessed asCMMI level 3.
On 10 April 2014, Symphony Teleca announced that they would be acquiring Aditi Technologies for an undisclosed amount. Following the acquisition, Sanjay Dhawan took over as CEO and Pradeep Rathinam was appointed as Aditi's president. Aditi subsequently became an independent business unit of Symphony Teleca.[citation needed]
In 2015, it was announced thatHarman International Industries were interested in acquiring Symphony Teleca.[11] Harman andSymphony Technology Group agreed on a deal worth US$780 million.[12] Teleca was rebranded Harman Connected Services, with a focus on producing software for all Harman-related products.[13]
As well as Symphony Teleca, Harman also acquiredRed Bend Software. The total price for the acquisition was $200 million, with $170 million in shares and $30 million in cash once certain milestones were reached. The Red Bend software remote revision by cellular operators of both software and physical components installed in cellular devices and its software is used on more than 2 billion mobile phones globally.[14] TowerSec was another company acquired by HARMAN in 2016. The Israel-basedcyber security company focused on security for the automotive industry.[15]
Collectively, the acquired companies were merged to form Harman Connected Services. Itsparent company was acquired in 2016 for US$8 billion bySamsung Electronics.[16]
| Geographies | Offices |
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| Europe | Malmö (Sweden);Tampere,Oulu (Finland);Richmond,Reading (UK);Bochum,Nuremberg (Germany);Nizhny Novgorod (Russia);Łódź (Poland) |
| Americas | Buenos Aires (Argentina) |
| United States | Mountain View,San Diego,Farmington Hills,Nashville,Plano,Westford,Providence,Bellevue,Burlington |
| Asia | Seoul (Korea);Beijing,Chengdu (China);Pune,Gurgaon,Mumbai,Chennai,Bangalore (India);Tokyo (Japan) |
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