Amid all our concentrate and efforts in staying secure, what we possibly missed celebrating is an essential landmark — 1 July 2020. It was the fifth anniversary of the Government of India’s commencement of the ‘Digital India’ campaign. What we did, even so, is far more substantial, colossal and emphatic. The government produced Digital India the essential apparatus in maintaining its citizens, empowered, safe, healthier and taking the country’s economy forward. The country’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India, estimates that by 2025, payments via digital platforms will jump to 1.5 billion transactions, or Rs 15 trillion a day. The every day transaction averaged about 125 million prior to March 2020, considerably of it powered by the government’s famed United Payment Interface, or UPI. To track citizens’ overall health and monitor the spread of the pandemic, the government launched the Aarogya Setu, getting a download hit of more than 127 million instances, a testimony of how Digital is transforming India quickly.
Putting IT behind e-Governance push
From the governance’s standpoint, Information Technology in modern India has played a revolutionary function in positioning the nation as one of the major nations producing the most advancements digitally in current instances. Most importantly, digital transformation has widened India’s possibility of innovation in every single aspect of its financial engine and even optimization of sources, presently becoming pursued across sectors ranging from e-Education, manufacturing, agriculture, healthcare, retail, monetary services, banking, national defence, and safety to public utilities.
Overall, information, technologies and governance are coming with each other as a force to accelerate social alter and address the criticality of harnessing the information generated via several e-governance initiatives to optimize choice producing.
World-class goods and localised options
Take, for instance, the collaboration among Hitachi Systems Micro Clinic Pvt. Ltd., a Hitachi Group Company, and State Bank of India (SBI), the country’s biggest public-sector lender. *The underlying philosophy among Hitachi and SBI has constantly been bringing ‘people-centric innovations’ by placing the buyer at the core of their business enterprise approach. Hitachi Systems Micro Clinic accelerated technologies-driven digital banking initiatives for SBI by leveraging private cloud technologies “Meghdoot” and creating a information lake idea. With the adoption of a cloud-initial approach, Hitachi enabled centralized* server safety option for SBI’s virtual servers and secured the internet gateway.
The digital technologies and analytics have helped SBI recognize safety and granular manage for sources and services, more rapidly response for application, and make obtainable info at fingertips.
Guided by the mission of advertising Social Innovation Business in India, aimed towards “Powering Good” for the bigger society, Hitachi continues to bolster its commitment with SBI to revolutionize digital banking, specifically throughout unprecedented instances.
Saksham is another innovative and revolutionary effort, by Hitachi Systems Micro Clinic created for the current adverse situation, which responds to Covid-19 disruptions by enabling one’s return to the workplace with compliance on safety and health. It is a comprehensive AI-enabled Self Service Helpdesk and a cognitive learning platform with IT Service Management capable to process Incident Management, Service Request, Change Management and Problem Management for all business requirements. Saksham ensures that an organization’s IT assets are healthy, compliant, up and running through zero or minimal contact.
Similarly, the integrated IT environment infrastructure in Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) core cloud solution, security solution for another leading public sector scheduled financial institute, is one more work of excellence by Hitachi Systems Micro Clinic. They worked with the bank and proposed them the solutions Network Behaviour Anomaly detection, Decoy/Deception, Next Gen Firewall, Network Advanced Threat Protection, Endpoint Anti-virus, Data Loss Prevention, Intrusion Prevention System, Load Balancers and Security Orchestration and Automation Response. Being a government undertaking, the bank strictly follows cyber-security guidelines laid down by Reserve Bank of India. Within the parameters, the bank embarked on digital transformation journey, which would help them strengthen and secure their banking operations.
Leveraging its expertise in OT and IT, Hitachi MGRM Net has rolled out its state-of-the-art M-StarTM Health e- Governance Platform. The platform is an end-to-end comprehensive Healthcare Management System that covers all aspects of a healthcare institution, ranging from hospital management information system, citizen/patient health record, unique health ID, health scheme, policy, claims, tele-health, administration, and clinical operations to clinical decision support system. It offers a single source of authentic architecture and near-real-time information for decision making and monitoring.
“Throughout this journey wherein the Government envisions India transforming into a digitally empowered society, Hitachi has played the most fundamental role of a partner bolstering the government’s initiatives. Hitachi has been offering solutions, products that are relevant not only for present-day but for its future development. Our credible expertise in OTxIT technologies is a reassurance of Hitachi laying strong foundations for a digitally self-reliant India.” Mr. Bharat Kaushal, Managing Director, Hitachi India.
Leading India to the future
It’s quite evident how Hitachi is playing a vital role in aiding better decision-making for not only the government but also private enterprises. With its ‘Connected Citizen’ solutions, Hitachi is also strengthening e-Governance in India, partnering the government on several initiatives and empowering the citizens of India through its diversified range of OTxIT solutions across various industries like Healthcare, e-Education, Agriculture, and more. M-Star-enabled digital Healthcare solutions, e-learning, agriculture solutions are some of the key solutions that are supporting the very backbone of nation-building.
Hitachi’s partnership with the Government of India’s progressive projects, such as the Make in India and Digital India initiatives, to take a predominantly agrarian India into the loT era, a leap that critical to the nation’s emergence as a global production and economic powerhouse is bearing fruit. Hitachi is leading India to the future!
Source Link: www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/08/covid-19-has-accelerated-india-s-digital-reset/
*Source: The Hindu Business Line, Wednesday, August 26th, 2020
The article is sponsored by Hitachi