Hitachi Vantara, established in 2017 is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi.Ltd. Hitachi Vantara is a leading IoT Analytics and Data Modernization Service provider, ensuring to render increased insight that brings value to its customers' data in a secure environment with its rich pool of products, solutions, and programs. The firm works closely with each customer, using its unrivaled industrial and digital skills to their data and applications to benefit both business and society as a whole. In an exclusive interaction with CIO Insider Magazine, Hemant Tiwari, Managing Director at Hitachi Vantara walks us through the unique traits of the company.

In conversation with Hemant Tiwari, Managing Director at Hitachi Vantara

Give us a brief overview of Hitachi Vantara.
Hitachi Vantara was established in 2017 by the merger of three companies: Hitachi Data Systems a provider of modular mid range and highend computer data storage system software and services Hitachi Insights Group whose solutions were powered by connected intelligence from the Internet of Things and Pentaho a Business Intelligence software that provides data integration OLAP services reporting, information dashboards and other services.

In addition, we incorporated Hitachi Consulting globally into Hitachi Vantara in 2020. As a result, Hitachi Vantara assimilated the advisory consulting and delivery capabilities as well as the domain experience from Hitachi Consulting into multiple industrial verticals, resulting in a significantly larger digital infrastructure powerhouse.

Share with us the inception ideology of Hitachi Vantara. What was the motivation behind it?
Prior to 2017, we had witnessed the

world changing drastically for several
years, with digital transformation at the forefront of corporate agendas. As a result, businesses face huge hurdles as data becomes increasingly diversified, scattered and dense. The proliferation of machine generated data augmenting existing systems, ERP, CRM, social media, has resulted in the creation of a massive amount of data across the board, all of which has led to the enterprise's dark data issue. Having said that, Hitachi Data Systems was transformed to Hitachi Vantara to assist clients in gaining a lot more business insights from various types of data collected within their organizations.

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Where does Hitachi Vantara envisage itself in the next few years?
It is a multiyear journey and nothing happens overnight. Hitachi Vantara has been in operation for four years. And we have gone up the value chain from pure play storage solutions all the way through to offering digital transformation solutions in different areas. Primarily, we see all of this coming together through the integration of our existing capabilities with the new capabilities and collaboration with a set of partner ecosystems that we have in the market place.

Recently, we acquired a company named Global Logic, a Digital Engineering Services company which helps customers build digital products, digital services, and various digital models. So as we move forward, there would be expertise in terms of advisory and consulting capability from Hitachi Consulting and digital product design, product services, and delivery capability of Global Logic to be combined to offer to our customers. Global Logic will be a key enabler for Hitachis Lumada, the brand for its advanced digital technologies solutions and services.