Hitachi and Google Cloud Announce Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Innovation and Productivity with Generative AI

By Investor Empires On May 28, 2024

Hitachi will use Gemini and Vertex AI models to help organizations improve business performance

Santa Clara, California, Sunnyvale, California, and Tokyo – Hitachi, Ltd. announced… (TSE:6501) and Google Cloud today announced a multi-year partnership to accelerate enterprise innovation and productivity through generative AI. Hitachi will form a new business unit focused on helping companies solve industry challenges using Gemini, Vertex AI models and other cloud technologies, and will also adopt Google Cloud's AI to enhance its own products and services. Through this partnership, Hitachi will accelerate the growth of Lumada, its core digital business, and will enhance the Hitachi Group's operational efficiencies.

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Led by GlobalLogic, the leading digital engineering company of the Hitachi Group, the two companies will establish Hitachi Google Cloud Business Unit And the Google Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE) To quickly extend Google Cloud technology to new and existing enterprise customers. In addition, Hitachi will collaborate with Google Cloud to integrate Google Cloud's GenAI training as part of Hitachi's professional GenAI training program. The program will deepen the expertise and managed services available through these business units, ensuring that large-scale organizations have the resources to fundamentally improve how they work with AI.

Additional focus areas of the partnership will include:

New GenAI solutions for software modernization and customer service: Hitachi will use Gemini models to build solutions that help companies modernize legacy software systems efficiently, and will adopt Google Cloud Call center AI To promote more effective and accurate customer service experiences. For example, using Google Cloud Agent assistanceCustomer service representatives can be supported with real-time cognitive assistance and solution suggestions to help them be more productive and provide better service. The new solutions will be compatible with GlobalLogic Platform platforms Architecture, which is designed to meet the needs of intelligent enterprises.
Enabling safe and secure GenAI solutions for on-premises and cloud environments: Hitachi's new solutions will support customers operating on-premises and in the cloud, enabling organizations to modernize operations while maintaining current IT environments. The solutions will also be compatible with The first virtual storage platform, Users can create GenAI applications using data stored on Hitachi Vantara's hybrid cloud platform.
Joint market initiatives: Hitachi and Google Cloud will better align sales, marketing, and engineering teams to ensure customers across industries have access to the resources needed to optimally deploy and manage GenAI projects through the Hitachi Google Cloud Business Unit and Google Cloud CoE. This will include GenAI professionals trained by Hitachi on Google Cloud technology.
Enhancing GenAI Talent Development: Hitachi's GenAI professionals play a critical role in supporting customers' transformation with AI. Hitachi will train more than 50,000 GenAI professionals through its global training program. As part of the program, Hitachi will include training on Google Cloud's GenAI solutions and AI technology.

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GlobalLogic and Google Cloud have collaborated for more than 15 years and help empower organizations with solutions that achieve their business goals efficiently and at scale.

“Through this partnership, Hitachi will leverage Google Cloud’s AI capabilities to improve and enhance employee productivity and accelerate innovation. By enhancing the capabilities of our developer and customer success units with Google Cloud GenAI solutions, such as Vertex AI and Gemini models, Hitachi will be able to meet Better meet the needs of its customers in diverse industries and across complex domains such as energy, mobility, manufacturing and digital services Toshiaki TokunagaExecutive Vice President and CEO of Hitachi.

Nitish BangaHitachi Digital Engineering Business Unit CEO and President and CEO of GlobalLogic added: “Through this global alliance, Hitachi is strategically aligning its go-to-market approach with Google Cloud to deliver tangible results. We create clear paths for collaboration, ensuring enhanced efficiency and acceleration in delivering solutions to our collective clients. This investment in building the Google Cloud business unit will provide the necessary energy, focus, and cohesive teamwork necessary to achieve the accelerated time to market required, and translate innovation into rapid revenue growth.

“To solve complex business challenges using generative AI, organizations need advanced technology and technical expertise to successfully deploy it throughout their organizations,” he said. Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud. “Our partnership with Hitachi will provide customers with the resources to optimally build, implement and manage every phase of their generative AI projects.”

About Google Cloud

Google Cloud is the new way to the cloud, providing AI, infrastructure, developer, data, security, and collaboration tools built for today and tomorrow. Google Cloud provides a powerful, integrated, and optimized AI stack with its own planet-scale infrastructure, custom-designed chips, generative AI models and development platform, as well as AI-enabled applications, to help enterprises transform. Customers in more than 200 countries and regions turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner.

About Hitachi Co., Ltd

Hitachi leads the business of social innovation, creating a sustainable society through the use of data and technology. We solve customer and community challenges with Lumada solutions that leverage IT, OT and products. Hitachi operates under three business segments of “Digital Systems and Services” – to support the digital transformation of our customers; “Green Energy and Mobility” – contributing to a zero-carbon society through energy and railway systems, and “Connected Industries” – connecting products through digital technology to provide solutions in various industries. Driven by digital, green technology and innovation, we aim to grow through co-creation with our customers. The company's total revenues as three segments for fiscal year 2023 (ending March 31, 2024) were 8,564.3 billion yen, with 573 consolidated subsidiaries and approximately 270,000 employees worldwide. For more information about Hitachi, please visit the company's website at https://www.hitachi.com.

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About GlobalLogic

global logic ( www.globallogic.com) is a pioneer in intelligent digital engineering. We help brands around the world design and build innovative digital products, platforms and experiences for the modern world. By integrating experience design, complex engineering, and data expertise, we help our customers imagine what's possible and accelerate their transition to the digital business of the future. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, GlobalLogic operates design studios and engineering centers around the world, extending our deep expertise to clients in the automotive, communications, financial services, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, media & entertainment, semiconductor and technology sectors. To learn more, visit www.globallogic.com.

About Hitachi Vantara

Hitachi Vantara is changing the way data fuels innovation. Hitachi Vantara provides the data foundation that the world's leading innovators rely on. Through data storage, infrastructure systems, cloud management and digital expertise, the company helps customers build the foundation for sustainable business growth. To learn more, visit www.hitachivantara.com.