Hitachi Consulting (HCC) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd, incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Dallas, TX. HCC is a recognized leader in delivering proven business and IT solutions to the Fortune 1000 and Global 2000 enterprises in public, government and private sectors. HCC focuses on business and IT consulting that helps its clients define key business issues and identify and implement transformational services focused on business and organizational strategy and IT process efficiencies. With a balanced view of strategy, people, process and technology, HCC works with organizations to understand their unique business needs and to develop and implement practical business strategies and technology solutions. They are regionally organized (North America, Europe, etc.) and have approximately 4400 employees. (1205 in the US) They go to market through 5 key industry verticals:
Product industries.
Communication, media and entertainment.
Consumer products.
Financial services.
Public sector.
HCC and Hitachi Data Systems Alliance
The joint initiative between HDS and HCC is strategically focused on enhancing various alliance vendor relationships to form an integrated ecosystem of partners, providing an end-to-end and “best of breed” set of technologies, products, and delivery capabilities across the technology stack.
The HCC and HDS initiative focuses on developing and driving differentiated technology, solutions and services capabilities into the marketplace. The collaboration includes bringing the best-of-breed HDS technology and HCC services and consulting capabilities, into a common ecosystem. Although the franchise will be focused initially on North America, the strategic direction is to scale the model and operations globally.
HCC and Hitachi Data Systems Solutions
Hitachi Consulting and Hitachi Data Systems are partnering to drive market-differentiated, business value oriented solutions to help customers reach and exceed their next level goals.
SAP – SAP is at the core of business processes and analytics. Hitachi Consulting has a wealth of SAP experience that spans various industries within the manufacturing and distribution sectors. Whether you are considering a net-new ERP implementation or just looking to augment one, we likely have the right solution for you. Hitachi Consulting specializes in the definition and deployment of SAP Best Practice solutions. By leveraging SAP Best Practices, we can accelerate time-to-value by as much as 30-50%. When applying these best practices along with underlying Hitachi Data Systems technology infrastructure, you can maximize your investment in SAP Business Suite and SAP HANA when ERP, CRM, SCM, and analytics operate at peak performance across the enterprise. Hitachi Data Systems enterprise storage and converged solutions drive SAP Business Suite and SAP HANA with scalable capabilities to handle SAP workloads and analytics, even at peak workloads.
As enterprises look to accelerate adoption of in-memory platforms such as SAP HANA for business analytics, SAP Business Suite and data warehousing, migrations onto these platforms must have demonstrable business value and support 24/7 mission-critical operations. In cooperation with SAP, Hitachi has helped redefine legacy supply chain management, customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning solutions based on traditional database deployments using Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) Select for SAP HANA and Hitachi “Live in Five” services. These comprehensive offerings – enterprise-class converged infrastructure and consulting services to rapidly deploy and run SAP HANA – allow customers to take advantage of in-memory transactional and analytic systems, and support future applications built for the SAP HANA platform.
Oracle – Hitachi Consulting and Hitachi Data Systems partner to provide solutions that help organizations identify how Oracle can improve business performance, streamline processes, transform business operations and implement technology infrastructure built around the customer’s environment. Understanding which part of the wide-ranging Oracle solutions portfolio is suited to the management of your business information and operations can be extremely challenging. Hitachi Consulting can help navigate the complexity, and optimize business processes, improve customer relationships, and gain valuable business insights with Oracle. Hitachi Data Systems offers the supporting enterprise infrastructure technology solutions that deliver maximum availability, performance and scalability for your mission critical Oracle databases and applications.
Microsoft® – Hitachi Consulting helps companies automate the flow of transactions and information within and between organizations. Solution offerings focus on the following key areas: Information Worker Enablement, Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management at the Edge of the EnterpriseSM, and ERP/Microsoft Interoperability. Hitachi Data Systems bring mission critical to Microsoft server applications by integrating with the Microsoft environment and delivering exceptional performance. Hitachi Data Systems solutions for Microsoft ensure your technology infrastructure environment can scale quickly and easily to accommodate rapid business growth.
Data Center Optimization – Deliver the high quality IT solutions your business clients value and need, quickly and cost effectively. The proven and effective Hitachi Consulting methodologies and tools can help you align IT with business strategy and develop effective enterprise architectures to keep IT infrastructure costs to a minimum, and provide IT with the solid foundation upon which to grow. Hitachi Consulting helps companies prioritize and plan initiatives to meet their objectives and goals, and successfully deliver practical solutions that drive measurable value. Leveraging Hitachi Data Systems technology, you can reduce storage spend through increased utilization and extend the useful life of existing storage investments, while maintaining the data protection, scalability and flexibility your business requires.
Contacts
Hitachi Data Systems
Joe Kozak – GSI, Global Account Manager, joe.kozak@hds.com, 480-650-6207
