Medium-sized companies from the EMEA region will benefit from a shorter amortization period in the design, development and implementation of mission-critical AI systems through strategic cooperation.
Hitachi Digital Services, a global systems integrator of mission-critical platforms, and Eraneos, a leading strategy, transformation and technology consultancy, announced a strategic partnership to build integrated, end-to-end ITxOT transformation capabilities.
Through this collaboration, Eraneos’s in-depth strategic, regulatory, and industry-specific expertise is combined with Hitachi’s comprehensive ITxOT systems integration capabilities to offer holistic AI services, from designing executive solutions to transforming manufacturing – all supported by local precision. This enables mid-sized companies in the EMEA region, particularly those with capital-intensive operating models, to benefit from AI more quickly and confidently, thanks to the systems’ reliable business outcomes.
In 2024, 41.17% of large companies had deployed AI technologies, compared to only 20.97% of medium-sized enterprises (SMEs ) – in the EU alone. The adoption of AI technologies in SMEs is presumably hampered by high costs, a lack of technical expertise, and difficulties transitioning from the pilot phase. As AI-driven change accelerates, many companies face fragmented transformation efforts and struggle to translate their visions into reality and derive meaningful actions from their insights.
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The joint offering from Eraneos and Hitachi Digital Services bridges this gap, enabling customers to be agile, reduce operational risks, and achieve measurable results at every stage. This makes true AI transformation whether in the form of advanced automation, smart manufacturing, digital sustainability, or the use of agent-based AI possible for a wider range of businesses.
“The convergence of AI and ITxOT is no longer a vision of the future; it is essential for businesses,” said Santhosh Sreemushta, President of Hitachi Digital Services. “In collaboration with Eraneos, we enable our customers to move from the experimentation phase to implementation, modernize responsibly, generate measurable value, and build intelligent, resilient systems for the future. This partnership combines the best in strategy and technology to help companies confidently operationalize AI at scale.”
Through this partnership, customers benefit from:
- Unified delivery, centralized accountability:
A seamless, proven approach that unites strategy, execution, and change leadership. All of this is brought together on a single collaborative platform to enable simplified and faster value creation. - End-to-end data activation:
Comprehensive solutions from edge to cloud unlock ITxOT convergence with AI-driven visibility, automation, and optimization across all organizational levels. - Future-proof platforms
are geared towards today’s requirements and anticipate the changing regulatory and market dynamics as well as the scaling requirements for the transition from product-oriented to solution-oriented services.
“This partnership strengthens Eraneos’ position as an integrated consulting firm covering the entire spectrum of transformation from strategy to implementation,” said Boris Ricken, Partner, Eraneos. “By combining our strategic, regulatory, and industry-specific expertise with Hitachi Digital Services’ comprehensive ITxOT integration and engineering capabilities, we can offer our clients global reach with local precision – all through a single, trusted partner.”
Hitachi Digital Services benefits from a unique perspective encompassing all aspects of the sustainable development of AI systems for a wide range of industries, including energy, manufacturing, mobility, oil and gas, and others. This expertise allows Hitachi Digital Services to skip the AI experimentation phase and directly begin operationalizing AI benefits across an organization’s entire IT environment. Combining this IT/OT expertise with Eraneos‘ holistic consulting services enables Hitachi Digital Services to offer its differentiated services to a broader global audience while leveraging regional resources for faster, more personalized technical support.
Source: Businesswire