ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY
System integrators want to get into the intellectually challenging activity, which is the application layer and application integration
Hitachi has sold its railway rolling stock as an on-time service utility, with a 30-year service level agreement to railway in UK, versus the traditional sale of a capital asset with a 30-year depreciation cycle.
HITACHI’ S IoT SNAPSHOT
Provider: Hitachi Insight Group, Santa Clara, California IoT platform offering: Lumada IoT edge technology or partner: Arduino, IEC 61850, Nexcom, Intel, WebSockets, REST
Pre-integrated IoT Devices or partner: Hitachi Medical Systems America devices, Hitachi Rail, Johnson Controls’ Metasys
Integration functionality offerings or partner: Pentaho Data Integration, Hitachi Content Intelligence
APIs libraries for App data integration: Pentaho Java API, Pentaho API, JDBC
Certified third-party middleware: PTC’ s Predictive Maintenance, Apache Cassandra, Melissa Data, Microsoft Azure IoT Hub, MongoDB
API management offerings or partner: Hitachi Integrated Middleware Managed Service, Hitachi ID Systems
System integrators’ offerings or partner: Hitachi Consulting
IoT-enabled applications or partner: Connected vehicle, predictive maintenance, public safety, transportation as a service, crime prediction
Source: Gartner
global, and sometimes customers are trying to do it themselves. We have a route to market for each of those go to markets,” continues Furniss.
A key aspect that enables Hitachi Data Systems’ go to market with its IoT, digital transformation, and cloud solutions, is its converged infrastructure portfolio. The converged solutions are built with data governance as the core requirement and include big data and predictive analytics using the Pentaho application engine, classic storage, object storage, and other software components.
“ The piece that sits on top is big data and analytics. All of that comes together as a platform and enables organisations that move into digital transformation. Data is the key and we understand data. We are changing data into revenue streams through analytics,” explains Pegrume.
Another strength leveraged into its converged solutions is enabling the cross-over between IT systems and industrial systems.
For system integrators who work with Hitachi Data Systems, the value that the vendor provides for them, is in the software layers right up to the application layer.“ What we try to do is produce robust standard software up to the application layer, that is really what we offer. Most of the system integrators, do not really want to do that themselves. They want to get into the intellectually challenging activity, which is the application layer and application integration. That is why we are seeing such a huge growth in our converged platform, explains Furniss.
Another area of activity with global system integrators is their uptake of VMware type virtual machines running Hitachi Data Systems converged infrastructure. Under 90 % of its converged solution sales are for private cloud where enterprises are trying to build the solutions on their own.
Hitachi Data Systems has well leveraged its competency in traditional compute and storage solutions into the present-day requirement of digital transformation solutions. It is also leveraging its base of industrial customers to move them into the business and customer engagement models of tomorrow. With the creation of Hitachi Insights, it is only matter of time before it emerges as a vendor with end to end solutions for digital businesses of the future.
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