Our history is traced back over 150 years to the first telegraph service in Japan. The Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation then took over the government-run business to support Japan’s telephone and communication services over the decades. In 1967, its Data Communications Division was established as an internal organization, marking the beginning of NTT DATA. In 1985, the company was privatized to become NTT, and in 1988, NTT DATA was spun off from NTT. We have since become a major player in the numerous developments of large-scale systems called “social infrastructures” that help progress social transformations. In July 2023, we have shifted to a holding company structure, which is a three-company structure with NTT DATA Group Corporation as the holding company, NTT DATA Japan as the domestic (Japanese) operating company, and NTT DATA, Inc. as the overseas (outside Japan) operating company. With this global management system, we have geared toward further business growth. We are a global organization that supports clients beyond the IT domain, providing end-to-end services and solutions ranging from business transformations to the operations that realize the transformations.

Our Way

An aggregation of the fundamental principles regarding the direction NTT DATA aims for, with the Mission at its core.

Many areas of the environment that touch our business are undergoing rapid change.​ For NTT DATA to continue growing, every manager and employee at our company is encouraged to decide what they should accomplish; implement changes that will enable their goals to be achieved, and propose how our business should be transformed to ensure our continued success.​ To explain this approach, we have created “Our Way” aims to set out our way for navigating the future.​

Innovation wins

As a leading business and technology services company, NTT DATA has a long and rich legacy of innovation. Our experience covers closed, R&D-related efforts as well as open innovation in collaboration with startups, academic institutions, and strategic technology and accelerator partners. Using the full complement of our global resources, offerings, capabilities and assets, we enable innovation and growth in our own business and for our clients.

Key elements of our innovation approach