Hita­chi agrees to acquire Ger­man data and AI ser­vices firm synvert to acce­le­rate Agen­tic AI and Phy­si­cal AI deve­lo­p­ment, dri­ving glo­bal expan­sion of HMAX business

Streng­thening GlobalLogic’s data and con­sul­ting capa­bi­li­ties and expan­ding foot­print in Europe and the Middle East

Santa Clara, Müns­ter, Sep­tem­ber 23rd, Tokyo 24th 2025, Hita­chi, Ltd. (TSE:6501, “Hita­chi”) is advan­cing the rea­liza­tion of a “Har­mo­ni­zed Society” where envi­ron­ment, well­be­ing, and eco­no­mic growth coexist in balance.  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 U.S. sub­si­diary Glo­bal­Lo­gic Inc. (“Glo­bal­Lo­gic”) from Max­burg, a lea­ding 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 lea­ding 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 the Middle East 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 Cen­ter 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.

 

PR synvert and Global logic

Com­ment from Jun Abe, Exe­cu­tive Vice Pre­si­dent of Hita­chi, Ltd., Gene­ral Mana­ger of the Digi­tal Sys­tems & Ser­vices Division

“Hita­chi is acce­le­ra­ting social inno­va­tion by addres­sing urgent socie­tal challenges—such as labor 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.”

Com­ment from Srini Shan­kar, Pre­si­dent and CEO, GlobalLogic

“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.”

Com­ment from André Hol­ho­zinskyj, CEO, synvert

“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.”

Com­pany Overview

Com­pany
Name		 synvert
Head­quar­ter and Office Head­quar­ter: Müns­ter, Ger­man­yOff­ices: Europe, U.S., and Middle East
Busi­ness Pro­vi­des sus­tainable data value chains from stra­tegy to ana­ly­tics plat­form ope­ra­ti­ons; over 3,000 pro­jects across finance, manu­fac­tu­ring, insu­rance, public sec­tor, and energy
Employees Over 550 (as of June 2025)
Foun­ded 1991
Web­site https://synvert.com
CEO André Hol­ho­zinskyj (CEO)

 

As a private equity fund focu­sing on foun­der-led tech­no­logy com­pa­nies, Maxburg’s suc­cessful part­ner­ship with synvert con­cludes with a stra­te­gic tran­sac­tion with the Hita­chi Group. Over the past five years, synvert has grown into one of the lea­ding data and AI ser­vice pro­vi­ders in EMEA, incre­asing sales and pro­fi­ta­bi­lity by a fac­tor of eight through disci­pli­ned exe­cu­tion and strong lea­der­ship. The terms of the acqui­si­tion are not disclosed.

About Hita­chi, Ltd.

Through its Social Inno­va­tion Busi­ness (SIB) that brings tog­e­ther IT, OT(Operational Tech­no­logy) and pro­ducts, Hita­chi con­tri­bu­tes to a har­mo­ni­zed society where the envi­ron­ment, well­be­ing, and eco­no­mic growth are in balance. Hita­chi ope­ra­tes glo­bally in four sec­tors – Digi­tal Sys­tems & Ser­vices, Energy, Mobi­lity, and Con­nec­tive Indus­tries – and the Stra­te­gic SIB Busi­ness Unit for new growth busi­nesses. With Lumada at its core, Hita­chi gene­ra­tes value from inte­gra­ting data, tech­no­logy and domain know­ledge to solve cus­to­mer and social chal­lenges. Reve­nues for FY2024 (ended March 31, 2025) tota­led 9,783.3 bil­lion yen, with 618 con­so­li­da­ted sub­si­dia­ries and appro­xi­m­ately 280,000 employees world­wide. Visit us at http://www.hitachi.com

About Glo­bal­Lo­gic

Glo­bal­Lo­gic (www.globallogic.com) is a lea­ding digi­tal engi­nee­ring part­ner that helps the world’s most for­ward-thin­king com­pa­nies design and build inno­va­tive, AI-powered pro­ducts, plat­forms, and digi­tal expe­ri­en­ces. Since 2000, we’ve been at the fore­front of the digi­tal revo­lu­tion, now acce­le­ra­ting cli­ents’ tran­si­ti­ons into tomorrow’s AI-dri­ven busi­nesses by inte­gra­ting expe­ri­ence design, com­plex engi­nee­ring, AI, and data exper­tise. Head­quar­te­red in Sili­con Val­ley, Glo­bal­Lo­gic is a Hita­chi Group Com­pany ope­ra­ting under Hita­chi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), which con­tri­bu­tes to a sus­tainable society with a hig­her qua­lity of life by dri­ving inno­va­tion through AI and tech­no­logy as the Social Inno­va­tion Busi­ness. Visit us at http://www.globallogic.com

About Max­burg

Max­burg is a Munich-based private equity fund with capi­tal com­mit­ments of more than €1bn. Max­burg is a growth inves­tor, sup­port­ing excep­tio­nal busi­nesses built and led by strong foun­ders. Max­burg focus­ses on tech­no­logy and soft­ware, busi­ness ser­vices and con­su­ma­ble pro­ducts (B2B and B2C) sec­tors in the GSA region. synvert is Max­burg’ s fifth exit in the tech­no­logy sec­tor after having suc­cessfully inves­ted in Mal­tego, KGS, Star­face and Ten­ado. For more infor­ma­tion about Max­burg visit http://maxburg.com/en/

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Alli­son Lucas

Glo­bal Head of Communications

Allison.Lucas@globallogic.com

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