Overcoming Business Challenges with the Hitachi Solutions Empower Data Platform
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It felt like the only thing people were talking about at CES 2025 earlier this month was AI.
It was beyond a buzzword. And though we heard a lot of hype about the tech, I want us to focus on the foundational aspects that businesses need to even start using it.
I had the pleasure of giving a short presentation, which you can watch below, and I’d like to share some highlights.
Navigating the Modern Data Landscape
During my presentation, I narrated a scenario familiar to many businesses today. Imagine a company with data scattered across various systems—customer management systems, ERP systems, and perhaps even some legacy on-premises databases. This fragmented data landscape is a significant hurdle for any business trying to harness the potential of AI.
Data is at the heart of every company, no matter the size or industry. You cannot make useful AI systems without quality data. And when your data is scattered across multiple systems and formats, it becomes a serious challenge to wrangle it all, make it usable, and drive results.
That’s why we built the Hitachi Solutions Empower Data Platform. Empower makes it easy to centralize all your varied data sources inside a week so you can get the analytics you need to take your business to the next level. Our platform simplifies data centralization and organization, enabling you to utilize your data to drive reports and AI solutions, saving you significant time and money.
The Challenge of Data Engineering
One of the key points I discussed was the overwhelming array of tools available for data engineering. Picture a lead software engineer who is tasked with building a ChatGPT-powered chatbot. The engineer, like many engineers, may not have extensive experience in data platforms. The sheer number of questions they face — how to centralize data, ensure security, choose the right data models—can be paralyzing. This complexity distracts them from their primary goal: creating a valuable AI application.
We designed Empower to address this complex landscape. It’s a managed service that simplifies data management and integration, allowing businesses to focus on the AI tooling or analytics that are powered by that data.
Here’s how Empower can help:
- Centralizing Data: It makes it easy to consolidate data from multiple sources into your own Azure Lakehouse.
- Ensuring Security: It maintains consistent security protocols across the enterprise.
- Simplifying Data Modeling: It provides robust tooling to support AI application and analytics development.
- Streamlining Deployment: It deploys within a week as a fully-usable “wheels-on” data estate, so you can focus on generating business value without worrying about infrastructure and networking.
A striking statistic I shared during my talk is that 80% of business leaders believe data is crucial for strategic decision-making, yet many struggle with data complexity and accessibility. Empower bridges this gap, helping businesses unlock the potential of their data and make informed decisions.
I encourage you to take a look at our Empower website, where we have loads of demos, insights, a webinar and more. Or feel free to reach out to us here.
