Hitachi Solutions to Spur Companies toward Digital Transformation

Mr. JP Smith, Director, Emerging EMEA Global Field and Industry Solutions, Hitachi Vantara has urged companies to drive their institutions with data in order to achieve innovations and revenue growth in businesses.

He made this call recently at ’Hitachi Insights Day Event’ organized by Hitachi Vantara at Radisson Blu Anchorage Hotel, V.I. Lagos

The purpose of Insight day event was to help organizations scale into the untapped potential of data by riding on Hitachi Vantara’s experience on how they store, enrich, activate and monetize data from the business landscape.

Speaking on the topic: ’Data-Driven Insight: Drive Smarter Decisions,’ said solutions such as Hitachi Vantara provides businesses which are always under pressure meet up with set goals and objectives.

Smith said with digital transformation, business can accelerate cost efficiency and time to market by automating operations and processes.

He also noted that data transformation would help increase loyalty and grow revenue by improving customer experience and unlock further innovations.

Also, Mr. Alexander Jenewein, Managing Director, Sub Saharan Africa, Hitachi Vantara, said the vision of Hitachi is to bring solutions to their customers to derive values from their in house data.

This, he said they want to achieve by using their existing data and infrastructure that they already have and set them up to derive digital transformation.

“We can only do that by looking at the data they have in various silos and bring those silos together and ultimately correlate the data to get them derive business outcome.

“So, we in the Hitachi Vantara have the solutions from data center modernization which is the first step to ultimately bring the data center to the modern age and ultimately honour the existing environment and the infrastructure they have invested in but then build on that to derive a more flexible environment and solution,” Jenewein said.

Earlier, Wale Awosokanre, Regional Managing Director, West Africa, Hitachi Vantara, said that they are pioneers in the business of ensuring that companies get value in whatever they do; from operation to information technology point of view.

Awosokanre also stated they have experience in the business and IT end of things to be able to fix things together and add value to their customers.

In his remarks, the Lagos State Commissioner for Science and Technology, Mr. Hakeem Fahm, applauded Hitachi for their contributions towards helping the state achieve its smart city initiative.

Fahm, however, enjoined other companies to emulate Hitachi Vantara and invest more in technology in the state.

He said: “When you take a look at the Lagos state, the population is about 22million and it continues to grow.

“We are still managing the state with minimal technology but we cannot continue that way.

“We have to invest more on technology and that is why we are moving heavily into the use of technology to manage the state.

“Lagos state economy is larger than all the other countries in west Africa combined.

“So, we need to build technology to manage not only the e-Government initiatives but other activities.

“Lagos is always open for business and we are building applications on e government, e-health, e-survey and so on.

“Lagos state is encouraging companies like Hitachi to continue to invest in the state,” Fahm said.

On the credibility of Hitachi solutions, the Senior Specialist Solutions Consultant, Hitachi Vantara, Mr. Samson Okpara, said Hitachi is known to be ethical company.

He said: “When we are talking about data integrity, we sign MoU for non disclosure of agreement and that is signed between both parties to understand that their data will not be shared between a third party,” Okpara said.