Logicas transition to Acision is now complete. Acision was formed from the recent 265m purchase of LogicaCMG Telecoms Products by a consortium including private equity buyer Atlantic Bridge Ventures and industrial holding group Access Industries. The buyers announced their intention to rebrand the company at the time of the purchase, and the new name came into play last week.
The investors intend for Acision to build on the firms heritage of pioneering innovation to expand its global market leadership position in intuitive messaging, intelligent charging, content enablement and customer intelligence Mmanagement for network operators, service providers, broadband operators, content owners and broadcasters. Acision employs approximately 1,700 people in 22 countries across six continents.
Acision has launched with more than 300 clients, serving over one billion customers across the two industries. The company says it has 43 years of intellectual property and an unparalleled reputation in mobile data services.
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 says CEO Chris McDermott. 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.
The companys back catalogue of achievements include the pioneering of SMS; processing over half of the worlds text and multimedia messages every day; serving three out of four videomail users globally; monetising over $100 billion (50 billion) for network operators and service providers through its content and messaging payment systems; processing over 18 billion text messages globally on New Years Day 2007; and delivering the worlds first 3G mobile messaging platform.
With the new investment, Acision says it will continue to add to this list of market achievements. 
