Aditi Technologies

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Aditi Technologies
Company type Private
Industry IT Services
IT Consulting
Founded1994
FounderPradeep Singh
Headquarters Bellevue, Washington
Key people
Pradeep Singh,
Founder & Chairman
Pradeep Rathinam,
CEO
Vineet Arora,
COO
Services Cloud, BI, Enterprise Social, Digital Marketing
Number of employees
c. 1600
Website https://www.aditiconsulting.com/

Aditi Technologies is an American IT company, headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, United States with the largest center in Bangalore, India. Aditi was acquired by Symphony Teleca in April 2014. On 9 April 2015, Harman International Industries Incorporated acquired Symphony Teleca Corporation. On 12 November 2016, Samsung entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Harman International. [1] [2] Since 2017, Harman International (and in correlation the former Aditi Technologies) has been an independent subsidiary of Samsung Electronics. [3]

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A new entity created called Aditi Consulting, an independent entity, which took over the domain name and trademarks and continues to service Microsoft amongst other customers, remains. [4]

Corporate history

Early years

Pradeep Singh founded Aditi Technologies in 1994 after nine years in management positions at Microsoft, including General Manager of the Windows 95 mobile services group. Aditi began as a Microsoft Service Shop, providing support services to Microsoft customers around the globe. [5]

In 1999, Talisma (A Customer Relationship Management division of Aditi) was spun off in 1999. The founding of Talisma was driven by the concept of supporting customers through various modes of communication using the Internet. Pradeep Singh spent the next 10 years in Talisma building the company.

In 2008, Campus Management acquired the Talisma [6] brand and Talisma Corporation Pvt. Ltd. in Bangalore and its higher education business unit based in Bellevue, Washington. [7]

Growth period

In 2003 Pradeep Singh came back to Aditi and he shifted the focus of the company to the Outsourced Product Development space, an area that Aditi spent its first 12 years exclusively servicing Microsoft. [8]

In 2004, Aditi partnered with PI Corporation for developing software targeted at the Linux environment. [9]

Since 2006, it was involved in Product development and software testing based on Microsoft's software platforms.

In August 2010, Aditi Technologies partnered with Quest Software to migrate and upgrade customers to SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Online. [10]

In 2011, Aditi forayed into Cloud Services space with the acquisition of Seattle based Cloud Computing start-up Cumulux. With the acquisition, Aditi invested $5 million in Azure Acceleration Lab, an Azure-based rapid application development offering to strengthen its Cloud Computing capabilities. [11]

In May 2013, Aditi expanded its cloud capabilities with the acquisition of Get Cloud Ready, thus entering the AWS market.

On 10 April 2014, Aditi announced that it was being acquired by Symphony Teleca for an undisclosed amount. [12] [13] Following the acquisition, Sanjay Dhawan took over as CEO and Pradeep Rathinam was appointed as President, with Aditi becoming an independent business unit of Symphony Teleca.

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