Raghuram Krishnan, Director, Partners/Alliances - Hitachi Data Systems India
"Businesses today are under pressure to transform - whether from anxious boards or new competition from digital disruptors. Across all industries, digital disruptors are using analytics, mobility, social and smart, connected devices to transform operations, customer experience, and business models. Travel aggregating companies have built incredibly interactive apps to enable cab bookings. E-Commerce retail companies have changed the landscape of online shopping in India. With this being described as the era of ‘disrupt to survive’ the IT market is changing faster than ever before leaving IT organizations face a choice: Lead transformation or become irrelevant.
Several companies across industries have already begun their journey of digital transformation to achieve cost efficiency and accelerate time to market. Many IT teams are seizing the opportunity to lead the digital enterprise. Yet others are slow to embrace. Digital transformation is business transformation, and it’s an imperative. Digital Transformation doesn’t come easy – especially for mature businesses that haven’t “grown up” digital. Like any major business initiative, digital transformation requires changes in process, people, skills, and technology. IT organizations must shift their thinking from focusing on the traditional IT stack to enabling digital transformation through data.
Hitachi Data Systems has evolved into an IT solutions and services provider, supporting customers in their journey of digital transformation. It is providing customers the bridge between legacy and digital. Our combination of experience and expertise qualify us to help partners and in turn their customers truly realize Digital Transformation, bringing it together in a single strategy – managing, governing, mobilizing and analysing data to create powerful insights and outcomes. FY15 was the fastest year for Hitachi Data Systems. We grew 39% year on year as we enabled our customers to accelerate their journey of digital transformation.
Our proficiencies today lie in Data Analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), connected intelligence and Superior Storage Architecture. Our cloud products solutions and services help enterprises accelerate and deploy cloud faster to meet digital business demands and compete to win. Hitachi holds more big-data and analytics patents than any other company.
Hitachi Data Systems believes in bringing value to our customers through our partner network. We offer end-to-end Digital Transformation solutions to our partners to help them have a strong presence in all markets in the region, tailor solutions based on applications or vertical, and remain cost-effective. Full Digital Transformation is not possible without a strong partner ecosystem in place that can cover all the moving parts involved.
Hitachi Data Systems is helping enterprises locally and globally to align their IT with business requirements, helping them open new revenue streams, increase efficiencies, improve customer experience and ensure rapid time to market in the digital age. We are positioned to deliver business transformational solutions which are rooted to its core competencies, with a balance of world-class infrastructure and flexible and secure content solutions."
