Hitachi Consulting Acquires Sierra Atlantic
Hitachi Consulting announces that it has acquired Sierra Atlantic, an offshore enterprise applications and outsourced product development company. The acquisition will significantly expand Hitachi Consulting's footprint with the addition of offshore Global Development Centers in Hyderabad, India, and Guangzhou, China along with a global delivery model. It will also bring expanded capabilities to Hitachi Consulting's Oracle business.
Founded in 1993, Sierra Atlantic is an offshore IT outsourcing company with approximately 2,400 employees worldwide. The company's headquarters is located in Newark, Calif. and it maintains operations in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. With approximately 200 customers across the Fortune 1000 and Small Medium Enterprise (SME) segments, Sierra Atlantic aims to provide a full portfolio of enterprise application implementation and management services to customers - using Oracle, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Microsoft and Agile - in the discrete and process manufacturing, life sciences, financial services and retail industries. It also provides software development, testing and support services to software companies.