At the end of last week, the Hitachi announced plans to integrate its GlobalLogic and Hitachi Digital Services businesses, from April this year, as it looks to consolidate the conglomerate's digital services portfolio and accelerate growth in its Lumada 3.0 platform. Lumada 3.0 is the latest evolution of Hitachi's core digital solutions platform, designed to drive industrial digital transformation by transitioning from simple IoT/OT monitoring to an AI-native, agentic, and physical AI-focused operating model.

Global LogicThe move will combine GlobalLogic's 32,000-strong workforce with Hitachi Digital Services' 6,000 employees focused on mission-critical systems, creating a substantial digital services organisation under GlobalLogic CEO Srini Shankar's leadership. The consolidation resonates with similar recent portfolio rationalisations across IT services providers looking for scale and integrated capabilities to compete in an AI-driven transformation market.

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