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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