Symphony Teleca

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Symphony Teleca
Private
Industry Telecom, Outsourcing
Founded 2001
Headquarters Mountain View, USA
Area served
 Worldwide Asia, Europe, North America
Key people
 Sanjay Dhawan CEO
Revenue $2.5 Billion (2014)
Number of employees
 Approx. 15,000 (as of April 2014)
Website www.symphonyteleca.com

Symphony Teleca is a privately held company, wholly owned by Symphony Technology Group (STG), which supplies software services to the mobile communications industry. As of 2013, the company has 6000+ employees in 35 countries with the largest number of employees in India spread across many locations - Bangalore, Pune, Gurgaon and Chennai. On January 22nd, 2015, HARMAN International Industries, Incorporated (NYSE:HAR), the premier audio, visual, infotainment and enterprise automation group, announced that it has signed an agreement with Symphony Technology Group to acquire Symphony Teleca. The deal is valued at about $780 Million US dollars and is pending subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals and is expected to be completed by the end of HARMAN’s 2015 fiscal year.

History[edit]

Teleca[edit]

Teleca was established in 1992 by a team of software specialists based in Manchester. Reference clients included Motorola, Racal, Digital, GEC, Hewlett-Packard, Psion and Siemens. Rapid expansion saw its customer base extend to cover mobile device vendors such as Nokia, Motorola and SonyEricsson.

Acquired in early 2000 and became the UK subsidiary of Sigma AB, a leading Swedish engineering services business with over 2500 professional staff across Europe.

In 2004 Teleca established a new office in Łodz, Poland and acquired Telma Soft, Russia in 2006. In 2008, Teleca opened up centers in India and China.

In 2008, Symphony Technology Group made a 100% buyout of Teleca and delisted it from the Stockholm stock exchange.

Symphony Services[edit]

Symphony Services Corporation was a software product engineering outsourcing services company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with major global operations centers in the U.S., India and China.[1][2] The company was assessed as CMMI level 4.

Symphony Services was founded in 2002 with initial financial support from Romesh T. Wadhwani, Chairman, CEO and founder of Symphony Technology Group.[3] In 2003, Symphony raised growth capital from TH Lee Putnam Ventures.[4]

In 2004, Symphony Services purchased Stonehouse Technologies for $6.7 million.[5]

In 2010, Symphony acquired Proteans Software Solutions,[6] an Indian company engaged in providing software engineering services to the small and medium ISV space; followed by CoreObjects Software Inc,[7][8] a Los Angeles-based company specializes in embedded product development for technology companies.

In 2011, Symphony Services acquired JPC Software, an Argentina entity that offers IT solutions, consulting and support services based in Buenos Aires.[9]

Symphony Teleca[edit]

In 2012, Symphony Services Corporation merged with Teleca, creating Symphony Teleca Corporation with a focus to helping clients manage the global convergence of software, the cloud and mobility.

Board Of directors[edit]

The Board of Directors of Symphony Teleca is chaired by Dr. Romesh Wadhwani. Other board members include Dr. Pallab Chatterjee, Sanjay Dhawan (CEO), Ramanan Raghavendran and Robert M. Howe.

Management[edit]

  • Sanjay Dhawan - President and Chief Executive Officer
  • Pradeep Chaudhry - Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  • Sandeep Karla - Executive Vice President and General Manager
  • Venkat Rajan - Senior Vice President and General Manager
  • Pradeep Rathinam - President
  • Naresh Ayyala - Senior Vice President
  • Subash A K Rao - Executive Vice President and CHRO
  • Anette Gregow - Senior Vice President - Corporate Communications
  • Ann Rosen - Corporate Legal Head
  • Thomas Murphy - Business Legal Head

Industry presence[edit]

Symphony Teleca provides information technology services for the following areas:

  • Mobile devices
  • Software vendors ISV
  • Hardware platform providers
  • Service providers
  • Network operators
  • Automotive
  • Embedded and Consumer electronics
  • Data Analytics

Global locations[edit]

Geographies Offices
Europe Malmö (Sweden); Tampere, Oulu (Finland); Richmond, Reading (UK); Bochum, Nuremberg (Germany); Nizhny Novgorod (Russia); Łódź (Poland)
Americas Buenos Aires (Argentina)
USA Mountain View, San Diego, Farmington Hills, Nashville, Plano, Westford, Providence, Bellevue, Burlington
Asia Seoul (Korea); Beijing, Chengdu (China); Pune, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Bangalore (India); Tokyo (Japan)

Partnerships[edit]

True Partners

Industry Associations

Certifications[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Symphony Service Corp.: Private Company Information - BusinessWeek
  2. ^ Symphony Service Corp. | Company profile from Hoover's
  3. ^ Symphony Tech Group To Invest $50 M In India Arm
  4. ^ TH Lee Putnam Ventures invests US$20 million in Symphony Services
  5. ^ Stonehouse Technologies to be sold to Symphony Services | Dallas Business Journal
  6. ^ The Hindu Business Line : Symphony Services buys Proteans
  7. ^ Symphony Services acquires CoreObjects - CXOtoday.com
  8. ^ Symphony Services acquires US firm - Business Standard
  9. ^ Symphony buys Argentina firm JPC Software | Business Line. Thehindubusinessline.com (2011-11-02). Retrieved on 2013-12-08.
  10. ^ Case Study from WGSigma

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External links[edit]

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