Hitachi Bolster its Social Innovation & Analytics Portfolio

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation unveiled the next phase of its Social Innovation business strategy in conjunction with new solutions and services, which include Hitachi Live Insight for IT

Operations, Hitachi Clinical Repository for connected health, and Hitachi Live Insight Center of Excellence. The company has announced several strategic acquisitions over the past year to bolster its Social Innovation and analytics portfolio – including Avrio, oXya, Pantascene and

Pentaho – and is now well positioned to help data-driven public and private sector organizations extract deeper, more sophisticated insights and greater value from their data.

The Hitachi Data Systems Social Innovation initiative and solutions portfolio address critical business and societal challenges – including population growth and urbanization, aging public infrastructures and populations, rising healthcare costs and public safety concerns. Leveraging its market leading data infrastructure technologies and smart analytics software foundation,

Hitachi Data Systems is developing purpose-built solutions for a variety of markets that combine the power of connected devices and technologies – or the Internet of Things (IoT) – with operational technology (OT), machine-to-machine (M2M) and advanced data analytics,and best- of-breedIT infrastructure, all in a unified, fully integrated stack. The newsolutions and services being introduced to the Hitachi Data Systems Social Innovation portfolio include:

 Hitachi Live Insight for IT Operations: A cloud-based M2M analytics solution designed to help customers achieve optimal performance and availability from their IT infrastructure, and gain operational intelligence at the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO). Hitachi Live Insight for IT Operations enables users to analyze all the machine data in their data center—from enterprise applications and data storage, to power distribution units and temperature sensors—to detect and identify the root cause of data center outages. Customers can also benefit from a new analytics accelerator service, which employs a five-step approach that leverages data acquisition, mapping and interpretation, predictive modeling, and data processing and retrieval tools, such as

Hadoop and NoSQL, to gain actionable insights and drive business-level results.

 Hitachi Clinical Repository (HCR) for Connected Health: A newly enhanced release of HCR, expanded to support connected health with secure mobile access. HCR for connected health empowers healthcare professionals with sophisticated data analytics, tools and proven delivery methods that let them adapt better to societal changes and increase strategic decision-making to optimize patient care. Built on Hitachi Content

Platform technology, HCRprovides a multipurpose data repository where all clinical and nonclinical data can be stored, backed up, preserved and retrieved on a single, integrated platform.

 Hitachi Live Insight Center of Excellence: Hitachi Live Insight Center of Excellence is designed to help organizations confidently and swiftly test, customize and deploy advanced data analytics solutions, applications, platforms, and integrated solutions to support new business initiatives.

The new solutions and services augment and extend the company’s existing Social Innovation offerings for public safety, telecom analytics and other products and services from the Hitachi family of companies, which include:

 Hitachi Visualization for Public Safety: Hitachi Visualization offers situational awareness solutions for law enforcement professionals by integrating multiple types of data from cameras, sensors, emergency dispatch and social media. HDS is now introducing powerful new predictive analytics capabilities for its Hitachi Visualization solution that will enable police to better prepare for potential events.

 Hitachi Live Insight for Telecom offers enhanced network analytics that are specifically designed to support communication service providers and their customers’ ability to enhance network services using real-time insight.