Digital Engineering and Enterprise Modernisation company Persistent Systems , planning to acquire Arrka, a Pune-based company data privacy solutions provider. This acquisition will enhance Persistent’s artificial intelligence (AI)-led, platform-driven services and strengthen its ability to provide comprehensive offerings in digital governance, including data privacy, AI governance, and cybersecurity, among others. With Arrka, Persistent will help clients accelerate their transformation journeys while ensuring ethical, responsible, and compliant AI.
The integration of Arrka is a critical component in scaling Persistent’s AI practice and addressing the rising demand for digital governance. It is a key to the company’s strategy to deliver responsible, ethical, and comprehensive platform-driven digital solutions.
Arrka’s Data Privacy Management platform enables organisations to manage their data privacy risks and comply with multi-jurisdictional legal and regulatory requirements in an integrated manner. Persistent will integrate and significantly broaden Arrka’s offerings to establish deep capabilities across the digital governance and trust domain, including equipping organisations to implement and manage AI risks, ensuring trust and governance across their AI initiatives; scaling Arrka’s Data Privacy expertise to help businesses enhance and mature their ability to comply with multiple privacy laws and regulations in a holistic manner; offering privacy-by-design capabilities that help embed ethical and trustworthy practices into AI development, thus ensuring transparent and explainable systems; developing tailored solutions for managing user consent, handling data subject rights requests, and ensuring transparency in data processing across multiple platforms and jurisdictions and offering continuous compliance and auditing solutions to ensure comprehensive monitoring of AI systems.
Sandeep Kalra, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, Persistent, said, “Arrka’s acquisition perfectly aligns with our vision to deliver AI-driven services that fuel innovation and ensure data privacy, ethics, and compliance at every stage. By integrating Arrka’s expertise with our AI-led, platform-driven services strategy, we are empowering businesses to innovate responsibly while managing risk and compliance more effectively.”
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Their mature frameworks and Data Privacy Management platform provide a scalable foundation to ensure this new capability is platform-driven and embeds governance from the outset, which is now critical for successful AI implementations. We’re delighted to welcome Shivangi and her talented team as we strengthen our digital governance and data privacy offerings and shape the future of responsible AI together, he added.
“The acquisition catapults Arrka onto the global stage. With the strength and resources of Persistent, we now have the opportunity to go from what has been a specialist, boutique business working with select long-term clients in India, to expanding our footprint into global markets and deepening our expertise rapidly in multiple areas of digital governance. Moreover, this has come at an opportune time, just when this domain is experiencing significant growth globally with the rise of AI. The Arrka team is excited by the opportunities ahead,” said Shivangi Nadkarni, Co-Founder of Arrka.