Hitachi Solutions Named Databricks Disruption Partner of the Year

Hitachi Solutions has never made its success following the status quo.

This is why we’re so proud to announce that Databricks has given us the 2023 Disruptor Partner of the Year Award. The Disruptor Award celebrates partners who are blazing new trails and leading the market by implementing cutting-edge streaming AI use cases that others will follow, including early successes with applied Large Language Models. 

The award was announced at the Databricks Data & AI Summit, where several leaders from Hitachi Solutions are featured speakers in this premier event for the global data community.  

We are elated to be honored with the Disruptor Award today and couldn’t be happier to partner with Databricks, an incredible leader in the AI and data space. Our products and services use Azure Databricks because it allows us to solve problems for our customers in new and innovative ways, utilizing advanced technology with less sharp edges. I’m so proud of our team, who are not only incredibly brilliant researchers and engineers, but are also such a pleasure to work with as we break new ground in real-time BI and AI solutions.

Databricks has more than 2,000 partners globally that are critical to building and delivering some of the best data and AI solutions in the world. Nearly 300 nominations were submitted by companies from diverse industries and regions across six categories in the annual Databricks Data Team Awards.

Hitachi Solutions’ recognition as a disruptor is rooted in our ability to help customers move faster from data to outcomes.

Today, that innovation continues with the Hitachi Unified Data Accelerator, a service designed to remove the heavy lift of building a data foundation. By applying proven architecture out of the box, we help organizations get analytics- and AI-ready data in days, not months, accelerating adoption of platforms like Databricks and driving real business impact.

The foundation of this success is our deep partnership with Databricks and our focus on delivering outcomes, not just deploying technology. By combining Databricks’ lakehouse architecture with proven data engineering patterns, we help organizations unify data, improve governance, and scale analytics and AI workloads more efficiently.

Rather than building complex data platforms from scratch, our approach simplifies and accelerates how data is prepared and used, reducing cost, risk, and time to value.

How We Won

One of our customers, a global manufacturer with billions in annual sales, was struggling with the volume of their data: both on-prem and with other cloud data products. This firm was spending over a million dollars a year to sync and process their Dynamics 365 data, plus another $40k a month in direct warehousing costs. They wanted to move away from an on-prem solution, but simply did not have an option before Lakehouse.

We applied a proven, accelerator-led approach to unify their data and modernize their analytics environment to achieve over $1 Million in direct savings and substantially increased business visibility with near real-time analytics.

With “just SQL” and Hitachi Solutions’ tools, this customer is leveraging analytical insights and has a pathway to fully retire their dated on-prem warehousing solution, resulting in substantial performance improvements and co st savings.

This is why we come to work every day. Helping business become smarter, more profitable, and with improved customer experiences is why we created the Hitachi Unified Data Accelerator. And having an invaluable partner like Databricks makes it all the better for our customers.

To learn more about how Hitachi Solutions is helping organizations accelerate data and AI outcomes with Databricks, connect with our team.