Aricent was a global design and engineering services company.

It was acquired by French-based company Altran in 2018 and renamed Altran North America in April 2019[2] and Altran Americas in early 2020.

With Altran's acquisition by Capgemini, the successors of Aricent are incorporated into Capgemini Engineering and to a lesser extent, Capgemini Invent.

Aricent was best known for developing telecom software which is used by telecom giants such as Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Nokia Networks, Oracle, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, and Nortel.

Aricent is the successor to Hughes Software Systems, which was established in 1991, as a subsidiary of Hughes Electronics,[3] with funding from Sequoia Capital.