is a Japanese
multinational information technology
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(IT)
service and
consulting
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company headquartered in
Tokyo, Japan
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. It is a partially-owned subsidiary of
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
, commonly known as NTT, is a Japanese telecommunications company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Ranked 55th in Fortune Global 500, ''Fortune'' Global 500, NTT is the fourth largest telecommunications company in the world in terms of revenue, as w ...
(NTT).
Japan Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, a predecessor of NTT, started Data Communications business in 1967. NTT, following its privatization in 1985, spun off the Data Communications division as NTT DATA in 1988, which has now become the largest of the
IT Services
Information technology service management (ITSM) is the activities that are performed by an organization to design, build, deliver, operate and control information technology (IT) services offered to customers.
Differing from more technology-or ...
companies headquartered in Japan.
History
2000s
In 2002, it was the first Japanese company to obtain
BS 7799
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The first part, containing the best practices for In ...
certification, an international information security standard. In 2007, the company had consolidated net sales of ¥1 trillion, and in 2008 the company acquired
German
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** Germania (historical use)
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-based
Cirquent
Cirquent (formerly Softlab Group) was a subsidiary of NTT Data that provides IT, consulting and professional services. The company's headquarters is in Munich, Germany, with offices in Austria, Switzerland and the UK.
The company provides co ...
, Inc. A new organizational structure of the "Company System" was introduced in 2009. Also that year, the company acquired Extend Technologies Pty Ltd in Australia, as part of a strategy to expand the global footprint of specialised SAP consulting businesses
NTT DATA and US-based IT Service company
Keane agreed to a merger on 29 October 2010. The acquisition is worth over US$1.23 billion. After the acquisition of Keane Inc., NTT DATA became the 8th largest software company in the world, with the annual revenue of $14 billion. Acquiring
Keane Inc. in 2010 increased the Group's total work force to 50,000. That year the company also acquired FirstApex, increasing the business footprint in insurance domain. In 2010, NTT DATA acquired Intelligroup Inc., a US-based IT consulting and service providing company. After taking over Intelligroup, NTT DATA became the ninth largest software company in the world, worth over $11 billion. India-based Intelligroup, Inc is headquartered at
iLabs
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,
Madhapur
Madhapur is a suburb of Hyderabad, India. It is noted as a centre of information technology activity. The heart of this area is called HITEC City which has the highest concentration of IT/ITES establishments in the city. Located in Ranga Reddy ...
,
Hyderabad
Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part ...
.
2011–present
In 2011, the company acquired
Italy
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-based Value Team S.p.A. and launched Global One Teams. In 2012 the company acquired
London
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-based Design and Technology Consultancy, RMA Consulting, who specialize in software design and delivery across multiple channels.
In 2013, the company acquired
Madrid
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-based Everis, a company that provided IT services including consulting, system integration and outsourcing. Also in 2013, NTT DATA, the IT services provider with its U.S. headquarters in
Plano, acquired Optimal Solutions Integration, a provider of SAP services headquartered in
Irving, Texas
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. In 2015, the company acquired Carlisle & Gallagher, Inc., a
Charlotte
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-based consulting firm. Also that year, the company acquired iPay88 - Online Payment Gateway for Asia Countries, Malaysia which specialize in online payment services and payment solutions for merchants with multiple financial institutions as business partners in
Malaysia
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. In 2016, the company acquired the Dell IT Services unit (mainly the former
Perot Systems
Perot Systems was an information technology services provider founded in 1988 by a group of investors led by Ross Perot and based in Plano, Texas, United States. Perot Systems provided information technology services in the industries of health ...
) of
Dell
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Dell sells personal computers (PCs), servers, data ...
Inc for $3 billion. Also in 2016, the company acquired Nefos, a Salesforce consulting partner in
Germany
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,
Austria
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and
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
.
During the decade, NTT Data began sponsoring
IndyCar Series
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team
Chip Ganassi Racing
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. In 2019, the company became title sponsor of the series, dubbing it the NTT IndyCar Series.
in March 2022, NTT Data announced it had acquired the
Detroit
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-based digital transformation and innovation company, Vectorform.
Operations
Within the NTT group, while
NTT Comware
NTT Comware Corporation (エヌ・ティ・ティ・コムウェア株式会社 in Japanese) is a system integration company which serves mainly the NTT Group. It started as the old NTT's IT Services department and was incorporated as a wholly ...
focuses on the IT services to the Group companies, NTT Data mainly services non-NTT Group companies. Within Japan, NTT DATA has established many
joint venture
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s, such as NTT Data-Sanyo Electric to take care of the IT services of
Sanyo
, stylized as SANYO, is a Japanese electronics company and formerly a member of the Fortune Global 500, ''Fortune'' Global 500 whose headquarters was located in Moriguchi, Osaka, Moriguchi, Osaka prefecture, Japan. Sanyo had over 230 subsidiari ...
electric group. Outside Japan, NTT DATA has its wholly owned subsidiaries or offices in the
UK,
China
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,
Malaysia
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,
Thailand
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,
India
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, the
US,
Italy
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,
Australia
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, Singapore, Vietnam and other countries or regions. NTT DATA Business Solutions headquartered in Germany is a global acting subsidiary of NTT DATA with a 100 percent focus on SAP business.
Yo Honma serves as President & CEO.
Products and services
Sponsored software:
*
TOMOYO Linux (until March 2012)
Ticketing System
* Melbourne Australia
myki
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Awards
NTT DATA was ranked #8 in ''Consulting Magazines 2016 Best Firms to Work For.
See also
*
List of IT consulting firms
The following is a list of the largest notable information technology consulting firms in the world, along with their corporate headquarters location and the total number of consultants they have. Many of these serve primarily as third-party consu ...
*
Software industry in Telangana
The Indian state of Telangana has a significant amount of software export in India. While the majority of the industry is concentrated in Hyderabad, other cities are also becoming significant IT destinations in the state. Hyderabad houses the ...
*
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT)
**
NTT Communications
, or NTT Com, is a Japanese telecommunications company which operates an international network in over 190 countries/regions, with locations in more than 70 countries/regions. The company has approximately 5,500 employees (NTT Communications ...
(
NTT Europe)
**
NTT Comware
NTT Comware Corporation (エヌ・ティ・ティ・コムウェア株式会社 in Japanese) is a system integration company which serves mainly the NTT Group. It started as the old NTT's IT Services department and was incorporated as a wholly ...
**
NTT Data Engineering Systems Corporation
Hitachi Zosen Information Systems was founded as a division of Hitachi Zosen Corporation in 1977, becoming an independent systems integration focussed on CAD/CAM, GPS/GIS,
and ERP/SCM in 1997, and finally changing its name in 2006 to NTT Data Engi ...
**
NTT Docomo
**
Data Analytics Library
oneAPI Data Analytics Library (oneDAL; formerly Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library or Intel DAAL), is a library of optimized algorithmic building blocks for data analysis stages most commonly associated with solving Big Data problems.
T ...
References
External links
NTT DATA Worldwide Website
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Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Service companies based in Tokyo
Telecommunications companies based in Tokyo
Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
International information technology consulting firms
Japanese brands
Software companies based in Tokyo
Japanese companies established in 1988
Consulting firms established in 1988
Corporate spin-offs
Software companies established in 1988