Aldiscon
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Aldiscon was a telecommunications software company founded in Dublin, Ireland in 1988. The company was an innovator in supplying software products to the mobile sector and became a market leader in the supply of Short Message Service Centre's (SMSC's) to mobile operators globally.
Aldiscon is historically significant to the mobile sector in two major aspects.
- It represents the successful introduction of major independent software suppliers to the technology of global mobile networks. To this day, the firm (under the name Acision) is one of the largest such companies of this type to have ever been created and matured.
- It represents the successful establishment of several innovative mobile software startup companies based in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, UK. Aldiscon, Apion, Aepona, Anam, Ammeon, Accuris Networks and Altion are just a handful of such Irish companies (in fact, all of these specific companies were started by the original Aldiscon founders)[1].
Aldiscon originally consisted of three companies: Aldiscon Telecommunications Software Systems, Ltd. based in Dublin, Ireland; Aldiscon, Inc. based in Dublin, Ohio USA; and Aldiscon Northern Ireland Ltd. based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Following rapid expansion through the mid 90s, the two Dublin companies were merged and renamed Aldiscon, Ltd. Aldiscon, Ltd. was acquired by Logica Plc of London, UK in 1997 for GBP 51 million. Aldiscon Northern Ireland was spun out into a separate company, Apion Ltd, and retained by the original owners. Logica Plc was a large multinational systems integration firm and it renamed Aldiscon the Logica Mobile Telecom Products Division.
In 1999, Phone.com acquired APiON's WAP product division. APiON shareholders received 1.3 million shares of Phone.com valued at approximately US$239[2]. A new spin off company AePONA was created at same time retained by original owners.
In 2003, Logica merged with CMG, another large multinational systems integration firm of Amsterdam to form LogicaCMG Plc. CMG had its own mobile software division and it was historically Aldiscon's largest mobile software competitor. With the merger, LogicaCMG Mobile Telecom Products Division was formed.
In 2007, LogicaCMG Telecom Products was purchased for £265m (US $525m), by private investors Atlantic Bridge Ventures and Access Industries and is now known as Acision. The company, based in Reading, UK, employs approximately 1,700 people in 22 countries across six continents. Acision continues as the world leader in independent mobile messaging software systems, primarily SMSC systems. The lead investor at Atlantic Bridge (and now executive chairman at Acision), Larry Quinn, was one of the founders of Aldiscon.
Acision is the world’s leading messaging company, providing communication solutions for over 300 network operators and service providers globally. As the messaging partner of choice for the world's top mobile operators, the company's proven products and services, experienced people and leading service innovation allow organisations to meet the challenges in today’s converging telecommunications market.
www.acision.com
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