Hitachi, continues to advance its vision of a “Harmonized Society,” where environmental sustainability, human wellbeing, and economic growth coexist in balance. As part of the One Hitachi strategy, the company is expanding its portfolio to leverage domain expertise and accelerate AI-driven innovations that transform social infrastructure. In line with this vision, the Hitachi Group has agreed to acquire synvert, a Germany-based data and AI consulting firm, as a wholly owned subsidiary of its U.S. subsidiary, GlobalLogic Inc. (“GlobalLogic”). The acquisition is being made from Maxburg, a leading private equity fund specializing in founder-led technology companies in the German-speaking region.
This strategic move aims to accelerate the deployment of HMAX, Hitachi’s solution suite designed to advance operational autonomy and business model innovation through Agentic and Physical AI, addressing complex societal and customer challenges in the AI era.
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synvert is a leading consulting firm in the data and AI sector, delivering expertise in AI-driven business design, data access, governance, integration, and operations. Serving over 200 clients globally, synvert helps enterprises unlock value through intelligent, data-powered transformation. The firm maintains strategic partnerships with major cloud and data platform vendors, including Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
Upon completion of the acquisition, synvert will complement GlobalLogic’s deep capabilities in AI and digital engineering while strengthening end-to-end services across the enterprise data value chain. Its strong presence in Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, and the Middle East will support the expansion of HMAX in collaboration with Hitachi Rail and Hitachi Energy. The acquisition is expected to close in the fiscal year ending March 2026 (April 1, 2025 – March 31, 2026), subject to regulatory approval.
Advancing Hitachi’s AI Vision
Led by the Digital Systems & Services sector, Hitachi’s AI strategy under Lumada 3.0 is evolving from Generative AI to Agentic AI, which autonomously coordinates multiple tools to perform complex tasks, and now to Physical AI, where intelligent systems interact with and control the physical world through robotics and IoT-enabled devices.
The Hitachi AI Center of Excellence (AI CoE) has spearheaded the development and deployment of over 1,000 generative AI use cases, including mission-critical applications. Agentic AI is actively enhancing executive, engineering, and frontline operations in risk analysis, predictive maintenance, and system integration, with more than 200 global operational implementations.
Strategic Significance of the synvert Acquisition
The acquisition enables customers to benefit from a platform-first architecture and industrialized MLOps, resulting in faster AI time-to-value, responsible scaling with built-in AI guardrails, and enhanced managed services that improve resilience while reducing total cost of ownership.
As Agentic AI orchestrates intelligent decision-making across dynamic datasets, a modern, enterprise-grade data foundation becomes essential. synvert brings more than 550 specialists in data governance, data platform engineering, and advanced analytics, with deep expertise in data warehouse and lakehouse architectures. Their capabilities allow seamless data ingestion, management, and activation for autonomous agents and real-time decision systems.
By integrating synvert’s data and AI consulting expertise with GlobalLogic’s VelocityAI platform and digital engineering leadership, Hitachi extends its end-to-end enterprise data lifecycle capabilities, positioning itself to deliver scalable, secure, and production-ready Agentic and Physical AI solutions across industries.
Comments from Leadership
Jun Abe, Executive Vice President of Hitachi, Ltd., General Manager of the Digital Systems & Services Division, said: “Hitachi is accelerating social innovation by addressing urgent societal challenges such as labor shortages and knowledge transfer among frontline workers in transportation, energy, gas, and railway sectors through the advancement of its own AI-driven transformation and the delivery of its outcomes to customers. By integrating synvert’s outstanding data analytics and consulting capabilities with GlobalLogic’s digital engineering expertise, we will enhance competitiveness through Agentic AI and accelerate HMAX deployment. We aim to deliver digital value to all and realize a safe, secure, and sustainable Harmonized Society.”
Srini Shankar, President and CEO, GlobalLogic, commented: “Integrating synvert into GlobalLogic will play a key role in accelerating our global strategy. It will strengthen our data and consulting capabilities and expand our presence in Europe and the Middle East across industries like energy, retail, financial services, and insurance. Once the acquisition is completed, we expect to rapidly deliver innovation through end-to-end development of data-driven AI services, and accelerate efforts in Agentic and Physical AI.”
André Holhozinskyj, CEO, synvert, added: “Joining the Hitachi Group, which has strengths in OT and products, is an ideal step in synvert’s growth story. GlobalLogic’s capabilities and regional strategy align well with synvert, and we believe this partnership will drive further growth. synvert’s identity resonates with Hitachi’s purpose-driven culture, and we look forward to what we can achieve together.”
