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Note: I am a paid consultant working on behalf of Aricent, and the purpose of the edits below is to update the information about the company. I welcome your feedback on the edits below.
I would like to make the following edits in 2 weeks, May 20, 2015. If I receive no feedback by that date, I will edit the article itself, unless I hear an objection to that. After each edit is a link substantiating the edit.
Aricent is apure-play product engineering service and software firm. It develops software, provides technology services, and co-creates products with leading networking, telecom, software, semiconductor, Internet, and industrial companies.[1] Aricent is headquartered in Redwood City, California, with operations in 19 countries worldwide[2]. Key investors areKKR & Co. L.P. andSequoia Capital.[3]
The company is believed to be one of the largest privately held companies inSilicon Valley. It employs more than 10,000 consultants, designers, and engineers at over 30 locations worldwide[4], focused exclusively on software-powered innovation for the connected world. Aricent was named one of the top 10 leaders[5] in the fast-growing Global R&D Services marketing by Zinnov, a globalization and market expansion advisory firm.[6]
The company invests in its own R&D by assigning more than 1,200 R&D engineers to creating software that enables clients to innovate intelecommunications design, manufacturing, and services.[7]
History
Aricent is the successor to Hughes Software Systems, which was established in 1991 as a spin-off from Hughes Network Systems, itself a subsidiary to Hughes Electronics. Hughes Electronics was created in 1985 when General Motors acquired Hughes Aircraft and merged it with Delco Electronics. By 1988, Hughes was producing over half of the communications satellites build in the United States.[8]
Although demand for satellites continued, Hughes Network Systems needed to address the latency issue for talking to satellites. To solve the problem, it established a specialized research and software development arm: Hughes Software Systems.
In 2004, Flextronics acquired a majority ownership stake in Hughes Software Systems. Two years later, in order to focus on its core electronics manufacturing services business, Flextronics sold its Flextronics Software Systems business (renamed Aricent) to KKR. Flextronics retained a 15% equity interest in the software development business until it sold the remaining stake in 2009.[9]
In August 2004, Flextronics (now Aricent) had also taken an equity stake in what was then known as Frog Design. Frog became part of Aricent after the sale of Flextronic Software Systems to KKR in 2006.[10]
Segments and Industries (New section)
Aricent delivers software-powered innovation across four segments: communications equipment providers, communications service providers, semiconductors and embedded systems, and software and internet services.The company services a range of industries including:
Products
(no change)
Clients
(remove ABB)(remove Force10)(remove Intel Mobile Communications)(remove Sumitomo Electric Industries)(remove Syniverse)
Standards organizations
(no change)
Board of directors
(no change)[18]
SMDynamo (talk)22:30, 6 May 2015 (UTC) SMDynamo[reply]
References
Partly done The company's own website is aprimary source, and SlideShare is not areliable source. I added information to the history section if and only if it was supported by areliable source. I also removed the unsourced "Products" and "Clients" section, perWP:VERIFY and because Wikipedia is not a business directory to list everything they do.
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Attempting to update and add info that only the company may have access to... Please review below and implement if possible. Thank you!
Aricent is apure-play product engineering service and software firm. It develops software, provides technology services, and co-creates products with leading networking, telecom, software, semiconductor, Internet, and industrial companies.[1] Aricent is headquartered in Redwood City, California, with operations in 19 countries worldwide[2]. Key investors areKKR & Co. L.P. andSequoia Capital.[3]
The company is believed to be one of the largest privately held companies inSilicon Valley. It employs more than 10,000 consultants, designers, and engineers at over 30 locations worldwide[4], focused exclusively on software-powered innovation for the connected world. Aricent was named one of the top 10 leaders[5] in the fast-growing Global R&D Services marketing by Zinnov, a globalization and market expansion advisory firm.[6]
The company invests in its own R&D by assigning more than 1,200 R&D engineers to creating software that enables clients to innovate intelecommunications design, manufacturing, and services.[7]
History
Aricent is the successor to Hughes Software Systems, which was established in 1991 as a spin-off from Hughes Network Systems, itself a subsidiary to Hughes Electronics. Hughes Electronics was created in 1985 when General Motors acquired Hughes Aircraft and merged it with Delco Electronics. By 1988, Hughes was producing over half of the communications satellites build in the United States.[8]
Although demand for satellites continued, Hughes Network Systems needed to address the latency issue for talking to satellites. To solve the problem, it established a specialized research and software development arm: Hughes Software Systems.
In 2004, Flextronics acquired a majority ownership stake in Hughes Software Systems. Two years later, in order to focus on its core electronics manufacturing services business, Flextronics sold its Flextronics Software Systems business (renamed Aricent) to KKR. Flextronics retained a 15% equity interest in the software development business until it sold the remaining stake in 2009.[9]
In August 2004, Flextronics (now Aricent) had also taken an equity stake in what was then known as Frog Design. Frog became part of Aricent after the sale of Flextronic Software Systems to KKR in 2006.[10]
Segments and Industries (New section)
Aricent delivers software-powered innovation across four segments: communications equipment providers, communications service providers, semiconductors and embedded systems, and software and internet services.The company services a range of industries including:
Products
(no change)
Clients
(remove ABB)(remove Force10)(remove Intel Mobile Communications)(remove Sumitomo Electric Industries)(remove Syniverse)
Standards organizations
(no change)
Board of directors
(no change)[18]
SMDynamo (talk)19:36, 7 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
References
Not done If it doesn't have areliable source, it won't be added ever by anyone. You cannot add information only known by the company, it must have areliable source.Joseph2302 (talk)19:42, 7 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Got it, Joseph2302. Thank you.
A few refinements for your consideration, please:
1. Change opening sentence from:Aricent is a pure-play product engineering service and software firm.to:Aricent is a pure-play product engineering services firm.
2. On the right-hand info bar, this is a more up-to-date listing of their products:
R&D Services Product Engineering Network Engineering Cloud Engineering Mobility Engineering Internet of Things Engineering
3. Also on the right-hand info bar, their slogan listed is old. Current slogan is:“Engineering excellence. Sourced."
Cheers,SMDynamo (talk)18:44, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello, the company Aricent has merged entirely with Altran. Should the pages be merged or left as they are? What is the best practice in the case? :)
Thank you in advance for your help.
Thevictorator95 (talk) 19:00, 23 april 2019 (UTC)
