Hitachi Consulting is the global business and IT consulting company of Hitachi, Ltd., and delivers proven business strategies and technology solutions. Their focus market sectors in the UK are Financial Services, the Public Sector and the Technology market. Globally, they work in over 12 different sectors.
Hitachi Consulting UK offers the agility of a smaller firm, the stability of a larger firm and the innovation that comes from being part of Hitachi. As a consultancy it is small enough for each client to be crucial, while being part of the global Hitachi group provides financial stability and flexibility.
With a balanced view of strategy, people, process and technology, Hitachi Consulting UK works with organisations to understand their unique business needs, and to develop and implement solutions that provide measurable value quickly.
Hitachi Consulting UK delivers corporate-branded Intranet to support Vaultex’s communication and collaboration programmeMicrosoft SharePoint 2010 solution provides web-based access to news, information, data and tools empowering Vaultex employees and improving overall company efficiency
In November 2007 Barclays and HSBC created a joint venture, Vaultex UK Ltd to take on the cash processing business of Loomis UK. With more than 2,000 employees, Vaultex offers...
Hitachi Consulting Helps Swiss Re Achieve Consolidated Expense Processing Using Oracle ERP Financials Founded in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1863, Swiss Re operates in more than 20 countries and provides its expertise and services to clients throughout the world. As a leading and highly diversified global reinsurer, Swiss Re offers financial services products that enable risk taking essential to enterprise and progress. The Swiss Re group’s position...
Microsoft Business Intelligence Platform streamlines reporting solutionsNapp Pharmaceuticals is part of a worldwide association of independent pharmaceutical companies that have been developing vital new drugs for more than half a century. Napp had a requirement for a Sales & Marketing business intelligence portal (BI) to provide access to sales, marketing and customer relationship management (CRM).
Hitachi Consulting UK Implements Continual Improvement Programme for Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, Delivering Greater Visibility, Enhanced Reporting and Real Time Oracle E-Business Suite upgrades and innovative system enhancements streamline internal processes and accelerate IT lead time.
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International plc. (MUSI) is the European capital markets hub of one of the largest financial institutions in the world, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG). Headquartered in the City of London,...
Successful Behaviour Change Programme set to improve national securityThe Ministry of Defence (MoD) is the United Kingdom central government department responsible for Government Defence policy and the British Armed Forces.
JLT chooses Hitachi Consulting as partner to deliver BenPal benefits management systemJLT Benefit Solutions Limited (JLT), part of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc, is one of the UK’s leading employee benefit consultancies. Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority, JLT employs over 1500 staff in 12 offices in the UK with revenues of some £130m.
Independent IT strategy review delivers significant cost savings and business efficienciesFounded in 1887, Ecclesiastical is a specialist niche insurer offering a wide range of insurance solutions for the care sector, charities, education, faith and heritage property, alongside bespoke commercial covers. The company is a British-owned business with group gross assets of over £1.5 billion and group net asset of over £362 million....
Hitachi Consulting’s successful dashboard solution leverages leading investment bank’s Oracle Business Intelligence platformCredit Suisse Group is a world-leading financial services company, advising global clients in all aspects of finance. It pursues a client-focused integrated bank strategy, focusing on complex client needs, leveraging the global expertise of its three divisions, Private Banking, Investment Banking and Asset Management.
Hitachi Consulting UK Delivers Integrated Risk Management and Claims Process Handling System for the Co-operative GroupMicrosoft SharePoint 2010 solution identifies higher risks faster, facilitates collaboration, removes duplication, and provides single version of the truth for more proactive approach to risk mitigation
Commissioning Support for LondonHitachi Consulting delivers a robust KPI dashboard in record time to help London’s Primary Care Trusts monitor and benchmark performance
Commissioning Support for London (CSL) was launched on 1st April 2009 and brings together seven existing NHS organisations. It marks the start of a new pan-London clinical and business support service within...
Hitachi Consulting’s Oracle Managed Services contract with BT for The City of Edinburgh Council delivers immediate performance improvement and cost savingsIn order to reduce its IT costs, in 2001 the City of Edinburgh Council entered into a ten year IT outsourcing partnership with BT, which was extended in 2008 for a further five years. Under the contract, BT took on full responsibility for the day-to-day operation and evolution of the Council’s networked infrastructure. Hitachi Consulting...
Successful Change Programme for RAF Brize Norton on target to deliver savings of £23m for RAF RAF Brize Norton is the largest and busiest station in the Royal Air Force (RAF), and constantly in the public eye as the main airport used for deploying UK troops worldwide.
‘Future Brize’ is a £250m programme to establish Brize Norton as the RAF’s centre for strategic and tactical air transport and air-to-air refuelling...
Devon and Cornwall ConstabularyOne of the mid-sized police forces in England & Wales has ambitions to become one of the top 10 forces in the country and have created a Transformation Programme as the vehicle for the business transformation.
Major Central Civil Dept Transformation Programme (DTP)A major component of this Department’s Transformation Programme (DTP) had approximately 50 full time employees (FTE) – excluding project delivery teams – working to improve the understanding of engagement with, and services to, the agents through which the individual and business customers interact with this Department. The objective...
Hitachi Consulting completes successful migration of Virgin Mobile's core operations to Virgin Media's existing Oracle E-Business Suite applicationVirgin Mobile launched its operations as a mobile virtual network operator in November 1999. Today the company has over four million customers and is the UK’s leading visual network operator.
Project Objectives:
To enable a move to a sharedservice centre, Virgin Mobile needed to integrate its financials, HR and payroll systems with Virgin Media’s....
Hitachi Consulting supports major telecomms merger with full Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system solutionImplement an integrated ERP system across finance, supply chain, HR and payroll that would:
Support business and IT synergies
Be implemented in conjunction with complex business integration activities
Meet existing and emerging business requirements
Maximise internal knowledge transfer
Support the integration to a shared...
Ensuring a â??hassle freeâ?? Payroll year end for EurostarEurostar is the high-speed rail service directly linking the UK to France and Belgium via the Channel Tunnel. It started operating in 1994, providing city centre to city centre services.
Atkins - case studyProject Objectives:
Extend Atkins use of OracleHRMS and Payroll to its Middle East and India operations
Facilitate a standard build across the business by maintaining the Oracle HRMS and Payroll system’s high level design
Deviate from core functionality only when local legislation required
Train key staff on using the new...
Hitachi Consulting completes successful migration of Peel Ports’ legacy mainframe applications to Microsoft.NET environmentPeel Ports is Britain’s second largest group of ports and includes Clydeport, Heysham, Port of Liverpool, Manchester Ship Canal and Medway Ports. It also includes container terminals in Belfast and Dublin and one of the largest short-sea shipping operations in Europe.
easyJet’s new application frameworkProject Objectives:
Deliver a robust, fully tested and extensible application framework that would support Web 2.0 technology
Create a common and consistent set of integrated enterprise service components
Reduce third-party maintenance and support costs
Work with a strategic partner to implement the project in a collaborative...
Local Authority Carbon Management ProgrammeThe Carbon Trust needed skilled consultancy support to deliver ambitious reductions in CO2 emissions among local authorities. Hitachi Consulting worked with 45 local authorities to identify annual emission savings of nearly 300,000tonnes of CO2 and cost savings of £27million per annum.
It is widely accepted that the consequences of increasing...
Integrating two businesses, with different processes, systems and cultures, whilst reducing from eight geographically diverse locations to three, is a tough challenge. Add in the fact that in three years only 300 out of 1500 employees will be doing the same job in the same location and the complexity begins to mount. Supplement these requirements...
Redcats - Risk and RewardHitachi was approached by redcats at a time when the home shopping market is under enormous pressure. In the ‘old days’, ‘Agents’ for the catalogue found customers, took orders and collected payments. Customers were family and friends and payment defaulting was an uncommon occurrence. Times have changed. The Internet has...
Commissioning Support for London Information Management In 2004, responding to targets set by the Government’s Efficiency Review and the DTI, the Competition Commission undertook a major change programme to make efficiency savings and refocus its culture on efficiency and continuous improvement.
The Commission has a self-imposed stretch target of 20% cost savings, to be achieved by 2007-08. With...
Hitachi Consulting worked collaboratively with the client to release a significant number of experienced underwriting people. This enabled the migration to a new insurance systems platform (AIS) and introduced efficiency improvements to the client’s underwriting operations.
Hitachi Consulting and Abbey planned and designed a programme for change to introduce new ways of working and behaviours to support the future operating model for branch telephony.
