What started as a domestic business in Tokyo has grown into an
international IT services platform. Now, NTT DATA is focused on
cornering the China market.
WORDS HOLLY JOHNSON • IMAGES DANIELE MATTIOLIF
or more than 50 years, NTT DATA has played a pivotal role in building
and advancing IT infrastructure around the world. Today, it is a leading
IT services provider and global innovation partner headquartered in
Tokyo, with business operations in 52 countries. The company has a
wealth of enterprise application experience across sectors including
manufacturing, finance, telecommunications, logistics, retail, and public
administration. With a focus on innovation and the principle of ‘quality first’, the
company works to improve the lives of people, communities and societies around the
world. In line with its vision to become a global IT innovator, NTT DATA has been
aggressively expanding its overseas business since 2005, now employing more than
111,700 people from diverse cultural backgrounds. To take its operations to the next
level, in 2011 the company merged its two Chinese subsidiaries – NTT DATA (China)
and Beijing NTT DATA Systems Integration – to form NTT DATA (China). This
unification of the development and sales functions allows for quicker responses to the
needs of local clients in China, making it even easier to actively market NTT DATA
products through the company’s 14 offices in the region.
Under the leadership of CEO Yoshio Matsuzaki, the company’s mission is to
strengthen local business in the China market and make use of development
resources, not only for offshore projects commissioned by Japan, but also for local
businesses. After joining NTT DATA in Tokyo in 1986, Yoshio left in 2001 to work
in leadership positions in several American computer security companies based in
Tokyo. He returned to NTT DATA eight years later, and was soon sent to
spearhead its burgeoning China business. »Data
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