Sierra Atlantic, Inc. is an IT services company operating in the offshoring enterprise applications and outsourced product development space.

With operations spread across 20 countries, Sierra Atlantic is headquartered in Fremont, California, and has offshore development centers in Hyderabad, India, and Guangzhou, China.

Across its global offices and development centers, Sierra Atlantic employs over 2000 employees as on October 24, 2008.

In December 2007, the company was named one of the top 20 Best Places to work in India. In 2008, it was named among the top 25 Best Places to work in India. In February 2008, it started its new 3000+ capacity Global Development Center in Hyderabad.

On Jan. 4, 2011 - Hitachi Consulting announced it has acquired Sierra Atlantic, a leader in offshore enterprise applications and outsourced product development with approximately 2500 employees in India, China and the US.

Timeline

• 1993: Founded by Raju Reddy, Sarath Sura and Yeshwanth Reddy
• 1994: Initiated business alliances with Oracle
  Oracle Corporation
  Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...
  
   and Microsoft
  Microsoft
  Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
  
  
• 1995: Became Oracle
  Oracle Corporation
  Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...
  
  ’s go-to partner for integration
• 1996: Acquired over 100 migration customers
• 1997: Re-engineered Oracle
  Oracle Corporation
  Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...
  
   Global Enterprise Manufacturing Management System
  (GEMMS) to Oracle Process Manufacturing (OPM)r11 10.7
• 1998: Launched proprietary suite of products called Application Networks^TM
• 1999: Max Hopper
  Max Hopper
  Max D. Hopper was an American IT manager, who served as the CIO of Bank of America, the SVP of American Airlines and the chairman of the Sabre group...
  
  , Kanwal Rekhi
  Kanwal Rekhi
  Kanwal Rekhi is an Indian-American engineer, businessman and millionaire philanthropist.Kanwal was born in Rawalpindi . After the partition of India, his family settled in Kanpur, India...
  
  , Raman Khanna, Hatim Tyabji and John Drew joined the Sierra Atlantic advisory board; Set up operations in the Asia Pacific region.
• 2000: Moved corporate headquarters from Milpitas to Fremont, California; Deployed flagship product, SCMNet (part of Application Networks^TM) at 30 leading high technology companies.
• 2001:
• 2002 Received the
  • 2003: Expanded operations into Europe (with headquarters in London) and the (Dubai); Partnered with Siebel
    Siebel Systems
    Siebel CRM Systems, Inc. was a software company principally engaged in the design, development, marketing, and support of customer relationship management applications. The company was founded by Thomas Siebel in 1993. At first known mainly for its sales force automation products, the company...
    
     for the and PeopleSoft
    PeopleSoft
    PeopleSoft, Inc. was a company that provided Human Resource Management Systems , Financial Management Solutions , Supply Chain and customer relationship management software, as well as software solutions for manufacturing, enterprise performance management, and student administration to large...
    
     for the (PIPs) development project.
    • 2004: Assessed as by SEI
      Software Engineering Institute
      The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute is a federally funded research and development center headquartered on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. SEI also has offices in Arlington, Virginia, and Frankfurt, Germany. The SEI operates...
      
      ; Named by Oracle
      Oracle Corporation
      Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...
      
       for Asia Pacific operations
      • 2005: , a high-end IBM Mainframe and Remote DBA Services company based in Boston
        Boston
        Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
        
        . It is specialized in selling mainframe outsourcing and consulting services; Established office facilities in Toronto
        Toronto
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         and Paris
        Paris
        Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
        
        
        • 2006: , a company focusing on PeopleSoft
          PeopleSoft
          PeopleSoft, Inc. was a company that provided Human Resource Management Systems , Financial Management Solutions , Supply Chain and customer relationship management software, as well as software solutions for manufacturing, enterprise performance management, and student administration to large...
          
           ; Certified as BS 7799
          BS 7799
          BS 7799 was a standard originally published by BSI Group in 1995. It was written by the United Kingdom Government's Department of Trade and Industry , and consisted of several parts....
          
           compliant by BSI
          BSI Group
          BSI Group, also known in its home market as the British Standards Institution , is a multinational business services provider whose principal activity is the production of standards and the supply of standards-related services.- History :...
          
          ; Ranked in the DQ-IDC Best Employers Survey 2006.
          • 2007: , a Boston
            Boston
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             based Product Development company with an offshore development center in China; Listed in the survey 2007, published in BusinessWorld
            BusinessWorld
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            ;
            • 2010: , North Carolina-based full-service consulting firm and Oracle solutions provider.
              • 2011: Hitachi consulting buys out Sierra Atlantic in a All-Cash deal.
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