Hitachi Introduces Hitachi Vantara: A New Digital Company Committed to Solving the World's Toughest Business and Societal Cha...
2017年9月20日 - 7:26PM
JCN Newswire (英)
Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501) today launched Hitachi Vantara, a new
business entity to leverage the broad portfolio of innovation,
development and experience from across Hitachi Group companies to
deliver data-driven solutions for commercial and industrial
enterprises. This new company will unify the operations of Hitachi
Data Systems, Hitachi Insight Group, and Pentaho into a single
integrated business as Hitachi Vantara to capitalize on Hitachi's
social innovation capability in both operational technologies (OT)
and information technologies (IT).
More Than a Century of OT Expertise Combined with IT Trusted by the
World's Largest Enterprises
Hitachi has been a leader in OT for industries such as finance,
government, manufacturing, power/energy and transportation for over
100 years, providing solutions that have positively impacted
cities, industrial operations and businesses at large. The company
has also been a leader in IT for over 50 years-bringing IT
applications, analytics, content, cloud, and infrastructure
solutions to market that have transformed the way enterprises do
business. Combining Hitachi's broad expertise in OT with its proven
IT product innovations and solutions, Hitachi Vantara gives
customers a powerful, collaborative partner in data - unavailable
in any one company until today.
"Hitachi Vantara marks a monumental change for Hitachi as we
continue to advance our unified corporate vision of Social
Innovation," said Hitachi, Ltd. President and CEO Toshiaki
Higashihara. "Hitachi has been helping customers harness the power
of their data to support meaningful business action for years. Now
as the world is being transformed by digital tools and processes,
we are unifying our strongest digital solutions companies together
as a new Hitachi company that delivers exponential business impact
for our customers and the betterment of society. The formation of
Hitachi Vantara underscores Hitachi's commitment to collaborative
creation with customers and partners, and being a true innovation
partner for the era of IoT."
The Opportunity in Data
Hitachi Vantara is uniquely able to help customers extract all the
value their data has to offer. By bringing new data-driven
solutions and services to market, Hitachi Vantara will help its
customers achieve tangible outcomes that positively drive business
and society forward.
The market opportunity for mission-critical data solutions has
never been greater. Data has become a businesses' greatest asset-if
they can extract actionable insights from it. Data holds the key to
new revenue streams, better customer experiences, improved market
insights and lower costs of doing business. However, a
comprehensive offering has yet to emerge that combines both OT and
IT expertise to uncover its true potential-until now.
Filling a Critical Gap in the Emerging IoT Market
Hitachi Vantara will continue to provide superior infrastructure
and analytics technologies that enterprises rely on for their
mission-critical data in their data centers, in the cloud and at
the edge of new innovations. The new company is targeting the
emerging IoT market opportunity, in which there is no clear winner
yet.
According to Gartner, Inc., "more than $440 billion will be spent
on IoT in 2020,"(1) and the firm estimates that by 2020, "there
will be more than 21 billion connected sensors and endpoints, and
digital twins will exist for potentially billions of things."(2) in
the same timeframe. To address this market, Hitachi Vantara will
harness business, human and machine data across OT and IT
environments to build comprehensive, data-driven solutions.
Customers will be able to manage, store, govern, blend, analyze,
and visualize data-and then take action based on uncovered
insights.
Hitachi Vantara's Breadth of Solutions: From the Data Center to the
Factory Floor
Hitachi Vantara will continue to develop the trusted data
management and analytics technologies Hitachi is known for,
including Hitachi's popular data infrastructure, storage and
compute solutions, and Pentaho software. It will also be driving
the development of strategic software and services solutions,
including Hitachi Smart Data Center software and services, Lumada,
Hitachi's IoT platform, now available as a standalone, commercial
software offering, and Hitachi co-creation services. Announced
concurrently today and now in its 2.0 release, Lumada has been
fully updated with enhanced artificial intelligence (AI), machine
learning and advanced analytics capabilities. It also has an
elegant, portable architecture that enables it to run both
on-premises or in the cloud, and supports industrial IoT
deployments both at the edge and in the core.
The company will focus on serving global Fortune 1000 companies
with best-in-class data management, infrastructure, content and
analytics products and industrial IoT solutions for a number of
industries including financial services and insurance, government,
industrials/manufacturing, telecom, and transportation.
"No other company brings together more than a century of
operational technology expertise with informational technology
trusted in the world's most demanding enterprise environments,"
said Hitachi Vantara CEO, Ryuichi Otsuki. "Hitachi Vantara
capitalizes on this unique combination by creating solutions that
meet the needs of an increasingly connected world. Like our
customers with whom we partner and co-create, Hitachi Vantara sees
data as an opportunity-a path to outcomes that matter."
Hitachi's new Lumada IoT platform and Smart Data Center solutions
will be on display at the Hitachi NEXT 2017 user conference in Las
Vegas, September 19 and 20, where event attendees can see live
demonstrations of the company's software and IoT solutions. For
more information, visit HitachiNEXT.com.
(1) Gartner, IoT's Challenges and Opportunities in 2017: A Gartner
Trend Insight Report, April 2017 - Mark Hung,
(2) Gartner, Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017, October
2016 - David W. Cearley, Mike J. Walker and Brian Burke.
About Hitachi Vantara
Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., helps
data-driven leaders find and use the value in their data to
innovate intelligently and reach outcomes that matter for business
and society. We combine technology, intellectual property and
industry knowledge to deliver data-managing solutions that help
enterprises improve their customers' experiences, develop new
revenue streams, and lower the costs of business. Only Hitachi
Vantara elevates your innovation advantage by combining deep
information technology (IT), operational technology (OT) and domain
expertise. We work with organizations everywhere to drive data to
meaningful outcomes. Visit us at www.HitachiVantara.com.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, delivers
innovations that answer society's challenges with our talented team
and proven experience in global markets. The company's consolidated
revenues for fiscal 2014 (ended March 31, 2015) totaled 9,761
billion yen ($81.3 billion). Hitachi is focusing more than ever on
the Social Innovation Business, which includes power &
infrastructure systems, information & telecommunication
systems, construction machinery, high functional materials &
components, automotive systems, healthcare and others. For more
information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at
www.hitachi.com.
Source: Hitachi, Ltd.
Contact:
Hitachi Ltd
Corporate Communications
Tel: +81-3-3258-1111
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