Hitachi Hi-System21(HS21) provides high value services which accelerate customers' business through 5 solutions. "Automotive solutions", which are the core business for HS21, provide automotive enterprise information system development, maintenance, operation services and smart mobility services. “Chemical solutions” provide ERP and other SI services, information systems outsourcing services, and IT infrastructure services aimed at chemical-related industries. "Financial solutions" provide services for the banking, securities, and life insurance industries. "Industry and ERP solutions" support ERP packages and the development of cloud and Web systems. "Platform solutions" focus on the development of storage products by leveraging cutting-edge technology.
ICT*1 for Car develops widely and rapidly from navigation systems and ETC*2 ,to connected cars and autonomous cars, which not only add functions of internet communication but also have functions as information terminals. In addition, new information systems are leveraged for production and sales operations on-site. HS21 has provided broad automotive business solutions for various customers, such as automotive companies, parts manufacturers, logistics companies, and car/parts dealers. HS21 provides solutions from development, maintenance, and operation to embedded software development for on-board electronics/parts to support automotive businesses. HS21 continues to provide new solutions to meet new customer needs, such as utilizing ICT, by leveraging new technologies proactively.
In the chemical industries, there are a variety of product lines including organic and inorganic chemicals, industrial gases, and materials for electronics that widely support manufacturing industries by providing materials to various manufacturers of automobiles, information-processing equipment, chemicals, and other products, leading them to be known as a “process industries”. HS21 provides a wide range of services to customers in the chemical/process industries. It not only offers IT infrastructure construction and maintenance, but also the SI services and BI tools best suited to each customer, from proposals through to implementation, along with operations including outsourcing, to support all system life cycles.
The financial systems for the banking, securities, and life insurance industries are extremely important social infrastructures that connect with various internal/international systems. The systems are not allowed to be stopped because they are deeply related to business activities and everyday life. In this field, HS21 provides one-stop solutions of system development and infrastructure setup from mainframe to client/server, network, storage, and could platforms. HS21 continues to contribute to not only customers' business efficiency by leveraging sophisticated technology with stability and reliability, but also to business competitiveness and evolution by leveraging new services with the use of smart devices and big data technologies.
The evolution of cloud computing has led a large change on the development and operating methods of enterprise operating systems. In addition, compared with SoR*1, or the original "recording system", SoE*2 system, which manages the connection of information", such as SNS, has allowed dramatic expansion of business opportunities. HS21 has accumulated operating knowledge by supporting customers from the development and installation of ERP*3 packages to their maintenance and operation. Also, HS21 has various experiences in the development of front-end AP by utilizing development technology of cloud, Web, and Native AP. HS21 continues to contribute to customers' IT services by integrating know-how and development technology.
The volume of data is increasing explosively with the spread of cloud computing and SNS, and the advancement of IoT technology. Customers expect high functions and reliable IT platform to efficiently leverage big data and create new business changes by data analysis. Based on the technology of embedded software development for platform products (storage, server, and router) for long periods of time, HS21 provides customers with coherent services from the development of platform products, which support social infrastructure, to system implementation, infrastructure setup, and operation support for the optimal system foundation for the customers.
