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shrikanth Gshrikanth G
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—VIVEkAnAnd VEnugOPAl
—VIVEkAnAnd VEnugOPAl
VP & GM – India, Hitachi Vantara
VP & GM – India, Hitachi Vantara

wE HAvE CUSTOMERS wHO TELL US THAT

THEY ARE DATA RICH, BUT InSIGHT pOOR

hat led to the inception of hitachi vantara? When we looked at it through the lens of the customer,
Can you shed some light on that? we realized that data proliferates across - business data,
If you look at the development in today’s human-generated data, as well as machine-generated
Wmarketplace, data has become the new cur- data. So, there was a need for the creation of a new digital
rency. Some even refer to it as ‘the new oil’. But data on entity. Hitachi Vantara, which unifies all the 3 companies,
its own does not add enough value. If you look at today’s provides us with a unique proposition of being a data
problem statement, it is very clearly focused on the usage company. Today, we are being viewed as a data manage-
and monetization of data. We have customers who tell us ment and analytics company and an industry expert in
that they are data rich, but insight poor. In fact, if you look technology and business outcomes that entirely sums up
at various statistics from analysts, there is a proliferation as a great software and solutions company.
of data, but only 5% of it is analyzed, and only 0.5%of
that data is operationalized. That is a huge amount of data What is the kind of a milestone you have set in terms of
that is locked in silos, which is why customers are not addressing all those digital transformation demands?
able to derive enough value from their data. We are positive about the accomplishments and success
If you look at our individual businesses - Hitachi Data that we can achieve for our customers and partners. If
Systems was focused on providing the best-in-class en- you look at the Indian market today, there is no clear lead-
terprise data management and infrastructure for custom- er in the IoT space. Given our differentiation, we aim to
ers, Pentaho was focused on providing data integration lead the IoT market. We are already servicing 85% of the
and business analytics, and thirdly, Hitachi Insight Group top 300 customers for data management and infrastruc-
was focused on providing IoT solutions for customers. ture. These include customers from the banking, telecom,

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