Acette

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Acette Technologies

Type of Company	Limited Liability Company - A partner firm in Dubai Internet City
Founded	2002 by Sunil Sivanand and Sujit Sivanand
Headquarters	Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Offices in: India Oman Canada
Key people	Sunil Sivanand, Managing Director and Chief Technology Architect Sujit Sivanand, Deputy Managing Director and Head of Consulting Roji Jacob, Head of Product Development Ramnathan Subramanian, Resident Director – North American Operations Rajaram Ramachandran, Head of Development Centre
Industry	Information Technology and Consulting
Products	SMS Banking, SMS solutions, Customer loyalty solutions, Cryptography , IT Governance Framework
Slogan	We will either find a way or Create IT!
Website	www.acette.com

Acette is an Information Technology System Integrator, Software Engineering and Consulting firm headquartered in Dubai Internet City. Acette provides technology strategy consulting services, enterprise application integration services, Information technology enabled services and Value-added reseller services to banks and other financial services companies, industrial companies, trading houses and government organizations in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America.

1 Corporate Identity
2 Solutions and Service Lines
3 Achievements
4 External links

[edit] Corporate Identity

The name Acette (pr. aye~set) is derived from the terms ‘ace’, meaning expertise, and the encapsulating suffix ‘ette’; which when read together as Acette signifies ‘expertise encapsulated’. The corporate philosophy at Acette is that it’s customers should derive value to their business from both domain knowledge and technical expertise encapsulated in Acette’s services, solutions and products.

[edit] Solutions and Service Lines

[edit] SMS Solutions

In early 2002 Acette developed a range of SMS solutions to cater to the messaging requirements of various industry verticals, such as financial services, logistics and manufacturing industries. Large enterprises such international courier service companies have implemented proof of delivery systems that employ Acette’s SMS messaging engine.

[edit] SMS Banking Solution

One of Acette’s flagship products is BankSmart, an SMS Banking solution built over an SMS gateway to provide secure Push_and_Pull functionalities for banks to offer its customers the facility to perform both financial and non-financial banking transactions over a GSM mobile phone.

[edit] Techno-market Studies

Acette’s Consulting division undertakes technology-based strategic studies. More specifically the services in this regard focus on market entry strategies for businesses planning to deploying new technology-enabled solutions such as electronic payment systems, smart-card based Customer_loyalty systems, cryptography solutions etc.

[edit] IT Governance

Acette’s IT Governance practice assists larger corporate entities to develop their IT Governance Framework specifically suited for their relevant lines of business. In developing IT governance frameworks Acette employs widely accepted methodologies and frameworks, such as COBIT and ITIL. Acette also assists banks and other large corporate entities to develop their IT strategy and roadmap.

[edit] Project Management Services

This Service Division at Acette encompasses a range of activities delivering project management, cost management and program management. Acette’s project management consulting group provides a range of management and IT consultancy services including: program and project management, change management, performance improvement, strategy and planning and IT solutions advisory services.

[edit] IT Facilities Management

Acette provides independent IT facilities management services to the banking sector and selected private sector clients. Acette takes on outsourcing engagements to run the IT facilities of its key clients.

[edit] Achievements

Acette’s predecessor and erstwhile consulting firm, 3 Aces, developed the world’s first Aramaic word processor in the year 1986.

Acette’s BankSmart SMS Banking solution and gateway is the Middle East’s first English and Arabic enabled multilingual packaged SMS Banking software solution.