Hitachi has unveiled plans for a new global digital services company, Hitachi Digital, which is scheduled to launch on April 1, 2027. The new company will unite two of Hitachi’s United States subsidiaries, GlobalLogic and Hitachi Digital Services, under a single company using the Hitachi brand, in a move the company says is designed to turn cloud, data and artificial intelligence into measurable business outcomes for large organisations.
The announcement, published on November 1, follows an integration plan first announced in January 2026. Hitachi Digital will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, and a brand campaign for the new company is launching alongside the announcement. The company will be headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and will be led by Anand Birje as chief executive and chairman.
Key Takeaways
- Hitachi Digital is scheduled to launch on April 1, 2027, uniting GlobalLogic and Hitachi Digital Services under one brand.
- The new company will have approximately 35,000 professionals in 27 countries and more than 880 active clients.
- Its focus is enterprise digital transformation at the convergence of cloud, data and AI, including Physical AI, data and intelligence, cloud engineering and enterprise applications.
What the New Company Brings Together
The combination joins two complementary businesses. GlobalLogic brings product and software engineering, while Hitachi Digital Services brings enterprise systems, cloud infrastructure and operational technology expertise. Together, Hitachi says, the new company will combine product and software engineering with enterprise systems and operational expertise, backed by more than 100 years of Hitachi experience building and operating mission-critical infrastructure.
That scale is the central point of the announcement. With approximately 35,000 professionals in 27 countries and more than 880 active clients, Hitachi Digital starts life as a large global services business rather than a small venture. The company says it will deliver sustainable solutions across both the physical and digital technology stack, engineering new digital products and AI capabilities for clients, modernising the enterprise systems underneath them, and running those systems reliably at scale.
Hitachi Digital will steadily guide enterprise digital transformation at the convergence of cloud, data, and AI toward concrete business results.
Why Hitachi Is Making the Move Now
The launch sits inside Hitachi’s wider strategy for digital growth. The company says Hitachi Digital will drive adoption of Lumada 3.0, its framework for combining digital technology with industrial operations, and will support co-creation with clients on new innovation. The new company is also expected to scale through investment in AI, data and cloud talent, along with expanded alliances and acquisitions across the technology ecosystem.
Hitachi’s management plan, known as Inspire 2027, provides the backdrop. Jun Abe, executive vice president and head of the Digital Systems and Services sector, said the new structure will position Hitachi as a global digital services player that works alongside clients throughout their business transformation. The existing Hitachi Digital LLC will be renamed Hitachi Digital Holding LLC, overseeing business management for the Digital Engineering and AI Solutions business unit, while the newly formed Hitachi Digital Inc. becomes the operating company serving customers worldwide.
- Launch date: April 1, 2027, under the integration plan announced in January 2026.
- Structure: GlobalLogic plus Hitachi Digital Services, under one company using the Hitachi brand.
- Scale: approximately 35,000 professionals in 27 countries, serving more than 880 active clients.
- Headquarters: Santa Clara, California; chief executive and chairman: Anand Birje.
- Service lines: Physical AI, Data and Intelligence, Cloud and Site Reliability Engineering, and Enterprise Applications.
- Group context: Hitachi reported revenues of 10,586.7 billion yen for the financial year ended March 31, 2026.
What Hitachi Digital Will Actually Do
In practical terms, the company describes itself as a strategic partner across the full transformation lifecycle. Its service lines cover Physical AI, which applies artificial intelligence to machines, factories and physical operations; Data and Intelligence; Cloud and Site Reliability Engineering; and Enterprise Applications. That mix reflects where enterprise spending is heading: companies want AI that works inside real operations, not only in chatbots and demos, and they want the cloud and data foundations that make those systems reliable.
The announcement also points to recognition from industry analysts. The two companies coming together as Hitachi Digital have been ranked by ISG Research as a Leader in Intelligent Robotics and Physical AI Services, Digital Engineering Services, and Generative AI Services, according to the company. Those rankings are a claim about market position rather than a guarantee of future results, but they show the areas where Hitachi believes the combined company is strongest.
The move comes at a moment of heavy investment across the AI industry. Anthropic’s record-breaking IPO filing underlined how much capital is flowing into AI companies, while a Quad pledge of more than $85 million for trusted AI showed governments also pushing AI development in the Indo-Pacific. Hitachi’s bet is different: it is selling the engineering and operations work that turns AI investment into working systems inside factories, railways, energy grids and other complex industries. Its interest in Physical AI also echoes work elsewhere in robotics, such as Agibot’s new way of measuring how much real work robots actually do.
What to Watch Next
What to watch next is what the article has already set out: whether Hitachi Digital meets its April 1, 2027 launch date, how the integration of GlobalLogic and Hitachi Digital Services progresses in the months before launch, and whether the new company’s focus on Physical AI, data and cloud engineering wins new clients beyond its existing base of more than 880. The other test is whether the brand campaign launching with the announcement translates into visible momentum in the enterprise market. Until those questions are answered, the announcement stands as a statement of intent: one company, at global scale, built to carry enterprise digital transformation from strategy through to day-to-day operations.