Hitachi Consulting and Oracle Team Up to Present “IoT, AI, and Blockchain Power Business Growth, Efficiency, and Productivity” at Oracle OpenWorld 2018

Teaming up to deliver successful projects delivering real business outcomes that are sustainable over the long term

Hitachi Consulting Corporation, a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501) and an Oracle Platinum Cloud Elite Partner level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), announced it will be participating in Oracle OpenWorld, the annual Oracle conference for business decision-makers, IT management and end users.

Oracle OpenWorld will take place October 22-25 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Hitachi Consulting will join Oracle to present a product keynote on October 23, “IoT, AI, and Blockchain Power Business Growth, Efficiency, and Productivity,” to highlight how Oracle and Hitachi solutions help businesses utilize technology, improve core processes and realize higher levels of return on their investments.

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The product keynote features Beverly Rider, senior vice president and chief commercial officer, Hitachi; John Hallin, vice president, Hitachi Consulting; Viktor Sahakian, vice president, Oracle Technology, Hitachi Consulting; Rick Jewell, senior vice president, Applications Development, Oracle; Bhagat Nainani, group vice president, Oracle; Jasper Potts, UI architect, Blockchain and Internet of Things, Oracle.

In addition, an executive solution session, “Hitachi Social Innovation: Outcomes Through Co-Creation with Customers and Oracle,” features Phil Townsend, senior vice president, Hitachi Consulting, and Ellen Dowd, senior vice president, Hitachi Global Solution Innovation Business.

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“At Hitachi Consulting, we are committed to expanding our engagement with Oracle by collaborating on initiatives that support our joint customers in their cloud transformation and digital innovation journeys. Hitachi’s track record in both operational technology and IT positions us to provide industry-leading tools for innovation and intelligent solutions that drive measurable and sustainable business outcomes for our customers,” said Hicham Abdessamad, President and CEO, Hitachi Consulting.

Hitachi has been working with operational technologies for more than a century, has more than 50 years of experience in IT solutions, and is an early pioneer of IoT innovation. Its history and expertise uniquely qualify Hitachi Consulting to partner with Oracle in delivering technology solutions to customers. “Hitachi’s expertise in business requirements across industries combined with Oracle’s cutting-edge technology solutions create a powerful force for solving customers’ problems,” said Camillo Speroni, vice president, WorldWide Strategic Alliances, Oracle.

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Emerging technologies, such as IoT, AI and blockchain, are critical assets for companies that want to achieve greater efficiency, improved productivity, stronger resilience and long-term sustainable growth. Keynote session attendees will learn how to apply these technologies to eliminate siloed business operations and create modern, interconnected digital workflows that have real-time visibility and responsiveness. The keynote session will showcase the collaboration by these two industry leaders and demonstrate how Hitachi’s insightful business know-how complements Oracle’s technology capabilities to bring Oracle solutions to life to solve real-world problems.

“To many customers, the ‘why’ of integrating IoT, AI and blockchain into their business is a compelling strategic imperative, yet the ‘how’ is hard to envision,” said Beverly Rider, Senior Vice President and CCO at Hitachi. “Attendees will have the opportunity to see in very tangible ways how Hitachi Consulting and Oracle put these solutions to work to make businesses more efficient, productive and profitable.”

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