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Launch of Hitachi Asia Ltd.’s Job Management Partner 1 (JP1) Version 12 (V12.5)

An Integrated Systems Management Solution that helps to overcome the complexities of business operations

Singapore, January 21, 2021 - Hitachi Asia Ltd. today announced the launch of its latest integrated systems management suite, JP1 Version 12.5, provides features to monitor the system without depending on the personal skills, and to support the integrated execution of business processes, both in the multi-cloud environment.

JP1 V12.5 improves system monitoring work, which does not depend on the skills of operators in a complex system environment, and promotes the automation of series of work processes across multi cloud environments. These new features will reduce the workloads of the IT department and accelerate the automation of businesses that utilizes cloud services, thus contributing to the progress of digital transformation (hereinafter, DX) at enterprises.

Currently, there has been a flow of DX initiatives to enhance enterprise competitiveness. This has only accelerated during the coronavirus pandemic. Major problem in this situation is that appropriate and stable operations of the system which becomes complicated by utilizing not only the existing on premise environment but also multiple cloud services is highly depending on the skill of operation personnel. In addition, in order to transform information systems and create more business values, it is also required to centrally manage operations in a multi cloud environments, by linking and automating the operations developed on cloud services with existing businesses.

For many years, Hitachi has been introducing the integrated operations management solution JP1 at enterprises in many countries, and has responded to the needs such as improvement of operational efficiency of the IT department, and automation of business processes. For example, JP1/Integrated Management 2 (hereinafter, JP1/IM2) enables visualization of the operation status of entire IT environments in real time, and JP1/Automatic Job Management System 3 (hereinafter, JP1/AJS3), controls and monitors automated operations. Based on the operational knowledge in IT department, which Hitachi has accumulated with these efforts, JP1 V12.5 has strengthened mainly its core products, JP1/IM2 and JP1/AJS3. Specifically, JP1/IM2 provides a new function which enables quick and accurate operations without depending the skill of operation personnel, by showing the precious proposal of countermeasures according to the system situation on the screen. Also, JP1/AJS3 makes it easy to execute the newly developed jobs which utilize cloud services and existing jobs which run on the on premise system as the linked series of business processes.

In the future, Hitachi will continue to provide more means which support utilization of clouds. Also Hitachi will further promote unified management and automated operation of multi-cloud environments by using JP1, thus supports customers’ realization of DX.

For more information on JP1, please visit www.hitachi.com.sg/jp1 or email ict.info.pr@hitachi.com.