Aditi Technologies is an American IT company, headquartered in

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with the largest center in

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. Aditi was acquired by Symphony Teleca in April 2014. On 9 April 2015,

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Incorporated acquired Symphony Teleca Corporation. On 12 November 2016,

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entered into a definitive agreement to acquire

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. Since 2017, Harman International (and in correlation the former Aditi Technologies) has been an independent subsidiary of Samsung Electronics. 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.

Corporate history

Early years

Pradeep Singh founded Aditi Technologies in 1994 after nine years in management positions at

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, including

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of the

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mobile services group. Aditi began as a Microsoft Service Shop, providing support services to Microsoft customers around the globe. In 1999, Talisma (A

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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 brand and Talisma Corporation Pvt. Ltd. in Bangalore and its higher education business unit based in

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, Washington.

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

. In 2004, Aditi partnered with PI Corporation for developing software targeted at the Linux environment. Since 2006, it was involved in

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and

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based on

's software platforms. In October 2007, Pradeep Rathinam was appointed as President, and then

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of Aditi Technologies. In August 2010, Aditi Technologies partnered with

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to migrate and upgrade customers to

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and SharePoint Online. In 2011, Aditi forayed into Cloud Services space with the acquisition of

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based

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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. 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. 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.

Acquisitions

* In 2007, Aditi Technologies acquired Parlano based MindAlign, which was engaged in developing Enterprise Collaboration Applications and product IP-based solutions for global financial services institutions company * In 2010, Aditi Technologies acquired Infospace India development centre, which was engaged in online product development, software engineering and product testing * In Nov 2011, Aditi acquired Seattle-based cloud-computing start-up, Cumulux, for an undisclosed amount. * In May 2013, Aditi Technologies acquired

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based Cloud Consulting company Get Cloud Ready, which was started by Janakiram MSV. Get Cloud Ready provides Get Cloud Ready framework, which helps customers with cloud adoption and operations across cloud platforms.

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External links

Aditi Technologies Official Website
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