Aricent

Aricent/Altran Americas
Company typeDefunct Company (acquired by Altran)
IndustryR&D Services
Founded1985 (founding of Future Software Communications); 1991 (founding of Hughes Software Systems); merged after acquisition in 2004.
Defunct2019
HeadquartersSanta Clara, California and later New York, New York (USA)
Gurgaon, Haryana (India)
ProductsProduct 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.

  1. ^ "About Us". Aricent. Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2016-05-28.
  2. ^ "About Us". Aricent. 27 February 2016. Archived from the original on 28 January 2019. Retrieved May 28, 2016.