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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