Aricent is proud to showcase its association with NEC as a strategic
partner to make NEC's product lines the most competitive in
the market. NEC Corporation is one of the world's leading
providers of Internet, broadband network and enterprise business
solutions. Throughout its strategic relationship with NEC,
Aricent has always endeavored to deliver true customer value at
each step by enabling future-friendly communications through
world-class software solutions. At the core of the NEC-Aricent
relationship, value creation is embedded into every deliverable,
every decision and every investment!
Genesis of the alliance - What made Aricent the obvious choice?
Aricent emerged as the right choice with its unparalleled
technical proficiency, domain expertise, project management
abilities and quality consciousness. Our ability to proactively
understand NEC's requirements and offer winning edge solutions
has enabled us to constantly deliver value to NEC, creating
a limitless source of futuristic opportunities. Aricent has always
endeavored towards 'productising' the NEC vision, building
NEC's larger products using Aricent's components, deploying them
in the network and helping NEC get greater market acceptance.
The Aricent engineering team participated in the entire life cycle
from conceptualization through deployment and supporting the
initial rollouts.
Aricent has set up a state-of-the-art Dedicated Development Facility
(ODC) with a committed resource-pool of software engineers
for evaluating new business areas in line with emerging technology
trends. The specially created offshore facility conforms to
NEC's strict international standards and quality norms, augmenting
them with Aricent's quality practices in tune with ISO
9001 standards and SEI-CMM Level-4 quality processes. Catering
to NEC's requirement for newer business opportunities, we
have successfully implemented high-end product development,
as well as feature enhancements for existing NEC products.
Aricent's Technology Expertise: Aricent's a Dependable partner
The NEC-Aricent ODC team is involved in several projects primarily
in the Broadband-IP and 3G wireless telecom domains
- Broadband-IP/Router development
- Home subscriber server
- WAP stack development
- HLR
- Element Management Systems / Network Management Systems
Proven Project Management Practices: Aricent's Commitment
The project required specialized skills in the 3G arena/Broadband-IP
and hence finding befitting resources was an uphill task.
Owing to novel team-building endeavours, Aricent has been able
to find resources with excellent technical skills and relevant
experience. A core technical team has been placed onsite to
understand the overall project plan as part of the onsite
knowledge-acquisition phase of the project. This has culminated
in formulating training schedules for offshore knowledge sharing
and imparting key learning to the entire team. Aricent's project
management processes further ensure that security mechanisms
of work deliverables; adherence to the client specified QMS,
reporting mechanisms, project tracking and escalation mechanism
are formulized in conjunction with NEC.
Aricent has deployed its best practices and processes, built
over the last many years into the execution of the NEC projects.
To this end, Aricent strives to institutionalize its proven project
management experience and skills and is continuously reviewing
and upgrading the methodologies, practices and training programs,
reinforcing Aricent's endeavours towards customer value creation.
Aligning with customer needs: Security and IPR protection
initiatives
The Aricent ODC has consistently followed NEC's specific quality
norms augmenting it with its own stringent quality standards.
During the onsite phase, the core team incorporated NEC's
QMS and after a gap-analysis between client and Aricent quality
standards, the quality norms to be followed have been finalized
in conjunction with the client.
Moving towards building a Strategic alliance
Aricent has institutionalized an innovative relationship model
into the ODC structure, offering differentiating services
by ensuring senior management involvement in synchronizing
our strategies with NEC's business roadmap:
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The Aricent ODC strategy has proved instrumental in moving the
transactional-outsourcing partnership to a value-added strategic
outsourcing relationship. Aricent has provided the support and
commitment of senior management as is essential for developing
a strategic outsourcing alliance, driving home our efforts
to integrate our customers into our value chain. Throughout
we have been committed to meeting promised timelines for delivery,
while ensuring high-quality services, touched up with our
technical expertise.
Aricent continues with its focus on aligning organizational values
and work ethics of the two companies to avoid any frictional
tendency to emanate owing to such a mismatch. The NEC-Aricent
outsourcing alliance is successfully progressing with the
business and technology roadmaps of both organizations synchronized
and working in tandem to create synergy in several technology
domains.
Last updated :
March 20, 2006
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