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Today the communications and media industries have a
new market leader. Acision is a dynamic new half-billion
dollar company with world leading status and credentials.
Launching with more than 300 clients serving over one billion
customers across the two industries, Acision combines a progressive,
exciting and agile philosophy of innovation with an experienced and
trusted team. The company has 43 years of intellectual
property and an unparalleled reputation in mobile data services.
Chris McDermott, CEO of Acision comments on the launch: "Acision
is in the enviable position of having investors with a deep market
knowledge and long term focus, supporting a team renowned for
creativity and assured service delivery. We already lead the
market with our products and innovation, placing us at the heart of
our customers' strategic business services. Our local
expertise and global experience, teamed with new investment, put us
in a great position to achieve our goal of providing solutions that
make our clients successful."
Acision has been formed from the recent £265m (US $525m)
purchase of LogicaCMG Telecoms Products by a consortium including
private equity buyer Atlantic Bridge Ventures and industrial holding
group Access Industries. The investors intend for
Acision to build on the firm's heritage of pioneering innovation to
expand its global market leadership position in Intuitive Messaging,
Intelligent Charging, Content Enablement and Customer Intelligence
Management for network operators, service providers, broadband
operators, content owners and broadcasters. Acision employs
approximately 1,700 people in 22 countries across six continents.
Boudewijn Pesch, Managing Director of Acision in Asia Pacific
said,"Asia Pacific continues to be one of the world's largest
and fastest growing markets for messaging services, and Acision is
well positioned to help telecommunications providers tap into
this potential. Being a private company enables us to be more agile
and innovative, building our reputation for high service levels and
extending the strong presence we already have in the region.
The company's back catalogue of achievements include:
· Pioneering SMS, a technology for which Acision continues to
lead the market (Informa)
· Processing over half of the world's text and multimedia
messages every day (Informa)
· Serving three out of four videomail users globally (Portio
Research)
· Monetising over US$100 billion for network operators
and service providers through its content and messaging payment
systems
· Masterminding the first real time subscriber
behavioural analysis for management decision making
· Enabling TV show American Idol to interact with a
record breaking 60 million voters, generating revenues and
additional content sales
· Processing over 18 billion text messages
globally on New Years Day 2007 – a record number
· Delivering the world's first 3G mobile messaging
platform
Acision has a strong presence in the Asia Pacific region, with offices
in 10 countries. The company serves leading clients including
Globe Telecom and Digitel in the Philippines.
With the new investment, Acision will continue to add to this list
of market achievements, making the name Acision synonymous with
innovation, assured.
 --Tech
Times Online
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