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As One Hitachi, the company is strengthening its portfolio to harness domain expertise and accelerate AI-driven innovations that transform social infrastructure. The Hitachi Group has agreed to acquire synvert, a company, headquartered in Germany, as a wholly owned subsidiary of its US subsidiary GlobalLogic (“GlobalLogic”) from Maxburg, a private equity fund focusing on founder-led technology companies in the German-speaking region. This acquisition aims to accelerate the deployment of HMAX, Hitachi’s solution suite advancing operational autonomy and business model innovation through Agentic and Physical AI, solving customer and societal challenges in the AI era.
synvert is a consulting firm in the data and AI space, delivering advanced expertise in AI-driven business design, data access and governance, integration and operations. With a portfolio of over 200 clients, synvert helps enterprises unlock value and drive intelligent, data-powered transformation. synvert maintains advanced partnerships with leading Cloud and data platform vendors, including Databricks and Snowflake, alongside major public cloud vendors (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud).
Once the acquisition is completed, synvert will complement GlobalLogic’s deep capabilities in AI and digital engineering, while adding end-to-end strength across the enterprise data value chain and accelerating the development of Agentic and Physical AI. synvert’s strong presence in Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal and West Asia will help expand markets for HMAX through collaboration with Hitachi Rail and Hitachi Energy.
The acquisition is expected to close in the fiscal year ending March 2026 (April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026), subject to regulatory approval.
Advancing Hitachi’s AI Vision led by the Digital Systems & Services Sector
Hitachi’s Digital Systems & Services sector, leading the company’s AI strategy under Lumada 3.0, is driving the evolution 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 Centre of Excellence (AI CoE) has led the development and deployment of over 1,000 generative AI use cases, including mission-critical applications. Agentic AI is actively in use across executive, engineering, and frontline layers to enhance risk analysis, predictive maintenance and system integrator efficiency, with over 200 global operational implementations.
Relevance of the synvert Acquisition
Customers gain immediate advantages from a platform-first architecture and industrialized MLOps, resulting in faster AI time-to-value, responsible scaling with built-in AI guardrails and the ability to add managed services that improve resilience and reduce total cost of ownership.
As Agentic AI evolves to orchestrate intelligent decision-making and task execution across vast, dynamic datasets, a modern, enterprise-grade data foundation becomes mission-critical. synvert brings over 550 highly skilled specialists in data governance, data platform engineering and advanced analytics – with deep expertise in data warehouse and lakehouse architectures. Their capabilities enable the seamless ingestion, management and activation of data needed to power autonomous agents and real-time decision systems.
By integrating synvert’s proven data and AI consulting strengths with GlobalLogic’s VelocityAI platform and digital engineering leadership, we extend our end-to-end value across the enterprise data lifecycle – positioning Hitachi to deliver scalable, secure and production-ready Agentic and Physical AI solutions across industries.
“Hitachi is accelerating social innovation by addressing urgent societal challenges – such as labour 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,” said Jun Abe, Executive VP, Hitachi & GM, the Digital Systems & Services Division.
“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,” said Srini Shankar, President and CEO, GlobalLogic.
“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,” said André Holhozinskyj, CEO, synvert.
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