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Every day, companies around the world are using Hitachi Digital cloud services to get more from their cloud migration and optimization initiatives.

3.5x

Faster migrations

108%

Roi Using Hitachi Digital Cloud Services

270

Days To Payback On Initial Investment

Technology

Cloud-based software provider

When it came time for Community Brands, a cloud-based software provider, to migrate its key Careers application to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, the company turned to Hitachi Digital Services.

Cloud Migration Services from Hitachi Digital Services successfully migrated more than 100 servers and 2TB of data in a tight time frame while meeting stringent security, automation and compliance needs.

The expertise and flexibility of the Hitachi Digital Services team were invaluable in ensuring we are ready for potential security threats.

Ashvin Bodhale
Senior Director of Cloud Platforms,
Community Brands

Key Outcomes

  • Careers application now automatically scales up to 25%, based on demand
  • Security has been enhanced to protect against intrusion attempts
  • Cloud operating costs have been reduced through internal efficiency gains

Technology

Clinical Genomics Informatics

With its industry-leading genomic SaaS solutions, PierianDx is enabling the acceleration of personalized and secure medicine programs. When the company decided to move its big data storage and analytics workload demands to the cloud, it selected Hitachi Digital Services.

Using its deep expertise in cloud services, Hitachi Digital Services developed a hybrid architecture, migrated the solution to the public cloud and managed the entire environment while continuously meeting Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements.

$1.4M

Average savings of Hitachi Digital Services ongoing management over three years

Key Outcomes

  • Custom hybrid architecture eliminates undifferentiated heavy lifting of IT infrastructure and management
  • Managed services ensure HIPAA compliance
  • Comprehensive managed solution allows PierianDx to focus on customers

Technology

Animal Health And Wellness

i4C’s innovative Voyce product simplifies the sharing of pet data with family, trainers and veterinarians. To improve its service, i4C turned to Cloud Consulting Services from Hitachi Digital Services.

The team’s experts built a versatile platform that scales to meet demand fluctuations, efficiently stores and processes big data, and meets fault tolerance and redundancy requirements. The team also implemented a defense-in-depth virtual infrastructure to optimize security and agility while processing big data.

The Hitachi Digital Services cloud team works as a seamless extension to i4C. … They have quickly become an integral and long-term partner.

Director of Program and Vendor Management, 
i4C

Key Outcomes

  • Improved i4C’s continuous integration, continuous delivery pipeline
  • Automated the deployment of load testing environments, resulting in cost savings
  • Enhanced the security posture of i4C’s infrastructure

Technology

Workforce Talent Management

To better support the delivery of its workforce talent development solutions, Knolskape decided to migrate its applications to AWS, choosing a team from Hitachi Digital Services to design the new infrastructure and manage the migration.

Drawing on their deep expertise in DevOps and AWS migration, the team delivered Cloud Migration Services from Hitachi Digital Services. They successfully migrated Knolskape’s development, staging and production infrastructure and applications to AWS.

4 fewer staffers needed: Average number of full-time equivalent resources avoided during migration with Hitachi Digital Services cloud services

Key Outcomes

  • Highly scalable support for 5,000 concurrent users
  • Zero downtime during upgrade and 99.8% application availability 
  • Automatic infrastructure scaling based on current user load

Healthcare

Not-for-profit Smart Healthcare System

Smart Hospital Project

When a leading healthcare nonprofit system asked Hitachi Digital Services to create an in-room concierge system for its network, Hitachi Digital Services experts delivered. They leveraged the power of Cloud Application Modernization Services from Hitachi Digital Services to reprogram Amazon Alexa.

Not only did they successfully provide in room concierge and information services, but they were also able to accurately capture critical patient information at the same time, all while conforming to HIPAA and state regulations.

$2.1M

Average value of Hitachi Digital Services application modernization over three years

Key Outcomes

  • Helps staff be more efficient with hands-free data input
  • Provides immediate customer feedback
  • Maintains HIPAA and other regulation compliance

Manufacturing

Beverage Dispensing Systems

Always looking to innovate, Sestra Systems turned to Hitachi Digital Services to help build a cloud-based IoT solution for its beverage dispensing systems.

The new solution, designed by Cloud Application Modernization Services from Hitachi Digital Services, enables Sestra to monitor devices, maintain diagnostic logs for troubleshooting and offer functionality in offline situations, such as cruise ships. It also enables predictive insight and automatic intelligent actions, and it can be used to turn disconnected devices into smart devices.

With our enhanced platform from Hitachi Digital Services, we’re more focused on what we can provide to customers to give them more value in the service we’re already providing.

Ben Maphis 
Vice President of Engineering,
Sestra

Key Outcomes

  • Allows company to enter into new markets with minimal connectivity
  • Accelerates time to value through reusable cloud artifacts
  • Provides effective control of a wide range of devices

Financial Services

Mobile Payment And Banking

Citrus Pay provides fast and safe payment and checkout processes for 800 million users. But when an unknown platform issue began preventing some customers from processing payments, Citrus reached out to Hitachi Digital Services for help.

Using the test accelerator function of the Hitachi Cloud Accelerator Platform, engineers quickly identified and corrected the problem that was causing the incomplete transactions. At the same time, they also discovered and fixed an additional issue contributing to processing failure.

The solution has improved operational efficiencies and service delivery, and its use has resulted in greater revenues and higher customer retention rates for Citrus.

Key Outcomes

  • Improved operational efficiencies and service delivery 
  • Greater revenues and higher customer retention rates 
  • Immediate ability to detect issues and loopholes

Insurance

Life Insurance

In an effort to build a more elastic infrastructure, Aegon Life Insurance Company decided to migrate its IT capabilities to the AWS cloud platform. To oversee the migration, the company chose Cloud Migration Services from Hitachi Digital Services.

To leverage cloud benefits, services team architects restructured Aegon Life’s IT environment, designing plans for migration and API integration while prioritizing security and compliance to meet industry regulations. To ensure a rapid move, they used a multiphase approach of discovery, build and migration, configuration and testing, and cutover steps.

Average migration time reduced from 14 months to 4 months

Key Outcomes

  • Entire program completed in less than four weeks under hard constraints
  • Improved disaster recovery capabilities
  • High availability across many applications

Education

Higher Education

Ellucian, a leading provider of software and services for higher education, needed to migrate its extensive portfolio of applications to the cloud to better serve customer needs.

Using a continuous integration and continuous software delivery framework built on AWS, Hitachi Digital Services cloud services team was able to automate key aspects of the software integration and testing life cycle. The solution not only supports over 80 different product lines worldwide but also anticipates the future needs of Ellucian’s cloud adoption model.

We really needed the best [engineers] in the world, and Hitachi Digital Services provided those initial engineers. I would definitely recommend Hitachi Digital Services.

Brian Knotts
SVP and Chief Research Scientist,
Ellucian

Key Outcomes

  • Saves millions of dollars in operational costs
  • Drives cloud application innovation and adoption
  • Enables deployment of new features faster and with better quality

WICS RAVEN 
Worldwide Incident
Command Services

Non Profit

Nonprofit Incident Command

California-based nonprofit Worldwide Incident Command Services (WICS) chose Hitachi Digital Services to oversee the migration of Raven, its on-premises emergency response management platform, to a more secure and agile environment.

After assessing Raven’s unique needs, Cloud Migration Services from Hitachi Digital Services delivered a robust architecture in the AWS cloud that supports emergency operations and ensures mission-critical performance. The services team also supplied application migration, cloud hosting, IT support, design infrastructure and enterprise level managed services.

Since Raven is an emergency management application, it is critical to have solid 24/7/365 uptime.

Jack Thorpe 
President,
WICS

Key Outcomes

  • Secure emergency platform helps preserve homeland defense and national security
  • Robust cloud architecture mirrors the response to a large-scale emergency
  • Self-hosting support adds capabilities for localized needs

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