New Delhi – Japanese technology major Hitachi Ltd said on Thursday it had agreed to acquire German data and artificial intelligence services firm synvert through its U.S. subsidiary GlobalLogic Inc, aiming to accelerate development of Agentic and Physical AI solutions.
The acquisition is expected to close in the fiscal year ending March 2026, subject to regulatory approval, the Japanese electronics group said in a statement. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Synvert is a consulting company focused on AI-driven business design, data access, governance, integration and operations. The firm serves more than 200 clients across Europe and the Middle East and maintains partnerships with cloud and data platform providers including Databricks, Snowflake, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
The tech company said the acquisition would complement GlobalLogic’s digital engineering and AI capabilities, strengthen end-to-end enterprise data services, and support the expansion of its HMAX solution suite across Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal and the Middle East. HMAX is a platform designed to apply advanced AI to industrial and business operations.
Jun Abe, executive vice president of the Japanese group and general manager of its Digital Systems & Services Division, said the acquisition would help address workforce shortages and knowledge transfer challenges in sectors including transportation, energy and railways.
“By integrating synvert’s data analytics and consulting capabilities with GlobalLogic’s digital engineering expertise, we will enhance competitiveness through Agentic AI and accelerate HMAX deployment,” Abe said. “We aim to deliver digital value and realise a safe, secure, and sustainable Harmonized Society.”
GlobalLogic CEO Srini Shankar said the transaction would expand the firm’s presence in Europe and the Middle East across industries such as energy, retail, financial services and insurance.
“Once the acquisition is completed, we expect to deliver innovation through end-to-end development of data-driven AI services, and accelerate efforts in Agentic and Physical AI,” Shankar said.
André Holhozinskyj, synvert’s CEO, said the acquisition aligned with the company’s growth strategy and purpose-driven culture. “Joining the Hitachi Group, which has strengths in OT and products, is an ideal step in synvert’s growth story,” he added.
Hitachi’s Digital Systems & Services sector said it had developed more than 1,000 generative AI use cases and that Agentic AI was in operational use across over 200 global implementations, including predictive maintenance and risk analysis. Synvert employs more than 550 specialists in data governance, platform engineering and analytics, the company said.
The Japanese electronics firm said combining synvert’s consulting expertise with GlobalLogic’s VelocityAI platform would enable delivery of end-to-end AI services across the enterprise data lifecycle, including managed services and industrialised machine learning operations.
Maxburg, the private equity fund that previously owned synvert, said its partnership with the firm concluded with the transaction. The fund added that synvert had grown into one of the leading data and AI service providers in the EMEA region over the past five years.
