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NEWS

itachi ABB Power Grids and
Hitachi Vantara has
Hannounced the integration of
Hitachi ABB Power Grids’ Digital
Enterprise (DE) flagship solutions
within the Lumada portfolio of
advanced digital solutions and
services for turning data into insights.
The two Hitachi business entities
have agreed to rebrand the DE
components as Lumada Asset
Performance Management (APM),
Lumada Enterprise Asset Management
(EAM) and Lumada Field Service
Management (FSM), adding to the
growing portfolio of DataOps and
Industrial IoT solutions.
The DE portfolio of solutions,
and its predecessors, enable
customers spanning multiple global
industries to operate, analyze and Power grids’ digital enterprise
optimize over US$4­trillion of assets
solutions integrated and rebranded
every day. With the incorporation of
the DE portfolio into Lumada, this
experience is further complemented
by a leading technology engine to expand our Ellipse EAM, enabling us to share information across all parts of our
deliver access to information, organization, tearing down silos and giving us the opportunity to formulate a longer­term,
systems, people and analytics across holistic strategy that reflects our specific business outcomes,” said Brian Green, general
asset­intensive organisations. manager, asset management, from the Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC). Brian
With Digital Enterprise’s continued, “In addition, implementing these solutions allows us to optimize the quality of
incorporation into Lumada, Hitachi the data we collect and ensure safe, compliant and efficient business operations.”
ABB Power Grids’ energy domain “Bringing these solutions, that each encapsulate deep domain expertise into the
experience will be augmented by greater Lumada ecosystem, gives customers an extremely powerful combination of tools to
Hitachi’s Lumada Industrial IoT modernize their business,” said Chris Scheefer, senior vice president, Industry Practice,
platform. Hitachi was recently named Hitachi Vantara. “The holistic view of assets and information provided by Lumada allows
a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic leadership to analyze and react in real­time, enabling efficient, effective operations and a
Quadrant for Industrial IoT foundation to create a more sustainable future.”
Platforms based on Gartner Inc.'s DE and Lumada also share core foundational features: a modern microservices design,
evaluation of the company and its vendor­agnostic interoperability, and a flexible deployment model, including cloud, on­
Lumada IoT software. premises and hybrid.
“Our software solutions and With the combination of Hitachi ABB Power Grids’ Digital Enterprise application
Lumada are highly complementary,” portfolio and Hitachi’s Lumada solutions offered by Hitachi Vantara, customers will be able
said Massimo Danieli, managing to benefit from additional data services including data integration, data cataloging, edge
director, grid automation business intelligence, data management, analytics and more.
unit, Hitachi ABB Power Grids.
Massimo added, “Combining best­in­ The new integrated Lumada portfolio will offer advantages to customers in the following
class Lumada IoT capabilities and the key areas:
domain expertise built into Digital • Digital transformation & data modernisation – improving access to and insights
Enterprise applications provides both from data.
new and existing customers • Connected asset performance – helping to predict and prevent asset failures.
unparalleled flexibility and faster time • Intelligent operations management – improving oversight and maintenance of assets.
to value, while preserving the value of • Health, safety & environment – enabling safer environments for workers and
their past software investments. The the public.
journey we began with our customers
as part of the Digital Enterprise Hitachi ABB Power Grids is an established leader in the enterprise software space with
evolution story has become broader solutions and a strong customer base that pre­date Digital Enterprise. The modernization
and more compelling, as we join the pathway to Digital Enterprise planned for the classic offerings, such as Ellipse EAM, Asset
Lumada ecosystem.” Suite, Service Suite, eSOMS, and others, continues with Lumada. Investment in and
“Lumada Enterprise Asset customer support for those products will remain intact throughout the process. n
Management and Field Service
Management allow us to seamlessly Contact John Perry, Hitachi ABB Power Grids, john.h.perry@hitachi-powergrids.com

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