History

1967
  • DATA Communications Bureau established within NTT Public Corporation.
1969
  • Optical communication research started.
  • Video communication service experiment started.
1981
  • Mainframe computer DIPS-11 model 45 developed.
1985
  • Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) incorporated as a private company.
  • DATA Communications Bureau reorganized as DATA Communications Division.
  • NTT System Technologies Inc.
1986
  • NTT DATA System Service Corporation established.
1988
  • NTT DATA Corporation started operation.
  • Registered as a special type 2 communications carrier.
  • Sales of S-type IC cards launched.
1990
  • Authorized as a system integrator
  • Established Hokkaido, Tohoku, Tokai, Kansai and Kyushu Tech Sys Inc.
  • Established the Tokai, Kansai, Chugoku and Kyushu DATA Communications Systems Corporation
  • NTT DATA Technology Corporation established
  • NTT DATA Creation Corporation established
1991
  • Established the Fukushima and Tokyo NTT DATA Communications Systems Corporation
  • Established the Fukushima and Tokyo NTT DATA Communications Systems Corporation
  • Established the NTT DATA Institute of Management Consulting, Inc.
1992
  • 6 million IC cards procured
  • Relocated the headquarters operation to Toyosu, Koto-ku, Tokyo
  • Established First DATA Systems Inc.
1993
  • Received the Deming Application Prize in 1993
  • Received the Nikkei New Office Promotion Award
  • The painting software ""SUISAI (Water Painting)"" received the Software Product of the Year 1993 in the education category
  • Formulated the long-term corporate strategy plan ""VISION-2001""
  • Established the HALEX Corporation
  • Established the Nagano NTT DATA Communications Systems Corporation
1995
  • Listed on the Second Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange
  • Established the ""Virtual Mall Creation Consortium""
  • Received a second order for the Postal Savings System (secondary) in China
  • Introduced the first IC card system in Beijing
  • Established the NTT DATA Tokyo SMS Corporation
1996
  • Designated to the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange
  • Introduced the venture-capital system
  • Made a capital investment in Shanghai Venus Software Co. Ltd., a Japan-China joint-venture software company based in Shanghai
  • Received an order for China's National Automated Payment System
1997
  • Received an order for an intelligent building system for the Shanghai Metal Exchange
  • Established the NTT DATA Kansai SMS Corporation
  • Established the Nippon Outsourcing Corporation jointly with Pasona Inc. and Nissho Iwai Corporation
1998
  • Changed the company name to NTT DATA Corporation, effective August 1
  • NTT DATA Customer Service Corporation commenced operations
  • Established NTT DATA Office Mart Corporation jointly with Orix Corporation and Softbank Corporation
  • Established Beijing NTT DATA System Integration Co., Ltd.
  • Established NTT DATA (China) Co., Ltd.
1999
  • Received an order for the joint design and development of an electronic procurement system for the Malaysian government, together with a loca company
  • Established the NTT DATA Kansai Customer Service Corporation
  • Formed an alliance with NTT DoCoMo, Inc., for Internet business, and reached an agreement with Softbank Corporation to acquire its stake in Mediabank Corporation
  • Obtained certification under ISO 14001
  • Established the NTT DATA Intellink Corporation
  • Acquired management rights of the EPR specialist Pioneer System Science Corporation
  • Established the NTT DATA Security Corporation
2000
  • Established the NTT DATA Intra-Mart Corporation
  • Established NTT DATA INTERNATIONAL LLC, a U.S. holding company, and incorporated the U.S. branch locally
  • Established Famima.com Co., Ltd.
  • Formed a comprehensive business alliance for B-to-B Marketplace Project with Oracle Japan
  • Established CEC Co., Ltd. (construction-ec.com), a joint company
  • Established NTT-iF Corporation, an online insurance distribution platform business company
  • Established Logistics Planner Inc., a 3PL business joint venture, with Nichirei Corporation and C. Itoh & Co., Ltd.Established NTT DATA Force Corporation
  • Ad Platform Inc., a joint venture with Hakuhodo Inc., established.
  • Established the AND Private Fund Investment Limited Partnership, a venture fund, together with the Asahi Bank Group
2001
  • Established Nihon Card Processing Co., Ltd., a credit business outsourcing joint venture with FDC, DCS, and DC card
  • Established Bestcom Solutions Inc. jointly with NEC
  • Formed a business alliance with The Seibu Department Stores, Ltd.
  • Established the NTT DATA Community Produce Corporation
  • Started a business to share Web systems throughout the leasing industry, and established the Net Leasing Corporation
  • Established NTT DATA AgileNet LLC
  • Established NTT DATA University Corporation
  • Received certification under BS7799, an international information security standard, for the first time in Japan
2002
  • Made an investment in Recruit Co., Ltd.
  • Operation of A.S.I.A. transferred, and made an investment in Asian Partners Co., Ltd.
  • Formed an alliance with Sun Microsystems, Inc., to establish a two-way authentication platform
  • Established the NTT DATA Wave Corporation
  • Obtained accreditation for the Information Security Management System (ISMS) conformance assessment scheme
  • Created a capital tie-up with Sanyo Electric Software Co., Ltd.
  • Established the DATA Science Model Systems Corporation
  • Implemented a large-scale ""cell computing"" experiment
  • Transferred stocks of DreamNet to NTT Communications Corporation
2003
  • Established the NTT DATA Sanyo System Corporation
  • Established ""3D Consortium"" jointly with C. Itoh & Co., Ltd., Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation and Sony Corporation
  • Discontinued the business group system and bolstered the business unit system
  • Established the NTT DATA Contents Planning Corporation
  • Established PCN Co., Ltd. jointly with CMIC Co., Ltd.
  • Integrated the operation/maintenance business promotion system into NTT DATA Customer Service Corporation
  • Established the NTT DATA Hokkaido, Tohoku, Shinetsu, Tokai, Hokuriku, Kansai, Chugoku, Shikoku and Kyushu Corporation
  • Established the NTT DATA Business Brains Corporation
  • Participated in a demonstration experiment for the e-AIRPORT project
  • Built an IP telephone network for Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co., Ltd.
  • Established the NTT DATA Itec Corporation
2004
  • Started outsourcing related to system development, and started business operations with Resona Holdings, Inc.
  • Established the NTT DATA PMO Corporation
  • Established the NTT DATA Sophia Corporation
  • Established the NTT DATA EX Techno Corporation
  • Established the NTT DATA System Design Corporation
  • Established the NTT DATA Quick Corporation
  • Reached an agreement on the operation of the Inagi library PFI
2005
  • Acquired a majority stake in The Revere Group Limited
  • Established the NTT DATA Sekisui Systems Corporation
  • Established the Webproduce Corporation
  • Acquired part of the business of Info Technologies, Inc., a U.S. IT vendor, through M.I.S.I Co., Ltd., a group company in the U.S.
  • Established the NTT DATA JINKYU Corporation
  • Reached an agreement with UFIDA Group, China's largest software vendor, on the establishment of a joint venture to offer IT services to Japanese companies in China
  • Acquired the management rights of SMIS Co., Ltd., an information service subsidiary of The Seiyu, Ltd.
  • Established the NTT DATA Bell SCM Solutions Corporation
  • Established the NTT DATA GC Corporation
  • Formed an alliance with Cap Gemini S.A. in the global arena, and acquired shares in Capgemini Japan K.K., renaming it to Zacatii Consulting, Inc.
  • Expanded the alliance with Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd., through the acquisition of shares in ISAC, Inc.
2006
  • Acquired the management rights of Hitachi Zosen Corp.'s information service subsidiary, Hitachi Zosen Information Systems Co., Ltd., which was renamed as the NTT DATA Engineering Systems Corporation
  • NTT DATA Sekisui Systems Corporation launched the new organization
  • Together with Fujitsu Limited, NEC Corp., Hitachi, Ltd., Kozo Keikaku Engineering, Inc., and Toshiba Solutions Corp., started a joint study aimed at promoting client-friendly methods for writing specifications and reaching agreements
  • Acquired the management rights of NTT Business Solution Co., Ltd., an information service subsidiary of NTT Leasing Co., Ltd., and renamed it as the NTT DATA Finance Solution Corporation
  • Renamed the NTT DATA System Design Corporation as the NTT DATA Business Consulting Corporation
  • Acquired the management rights of an information systems subsidiary of Kinki Nippon Tourist Co., Ltd.
  • Brought together, within the Toyosu Center Building Annex, approximately 20 offices that had been dispersed throughout Metropolitan Tokyo
  • Established the NTT DATA TERANOS Corporation
  • Launched the NTT DATA NCB Corporation
2007
  • Established the New Fellowship System
  • Created a capital tie-up with Cyber Communications Inc. and NTT Advertising, Inc., through the acquisition of shares in Criteria Communications, Inc.
  • NTT DATA Intra-Mart Corporation was listed in the Mothers Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange
  • Launched the NTT DATA Getronics Corporation
  • Established the NTT DATA Asia Company Limited in Bangkok, Thailand
  • Established Shenzhen NTT DATA East Net Co., Ltd.
  • Started releasing Customer View Guidelines (screen edition)
  • Created a capital tie-up with Mitsubishi Rayon and Mitsubishi Research Institute by acquiring shares of MRC Information Systems
  • Launched OpenCube Data Limited Liability Partnership together with NEWSON Co., Ltd. and Microsoft Co., Ltd.
  • Hinemos was awarded the ""Software Product of the Year 2007""
  • Established NTT DATA Malaysia and NTT DATA Vietnam
  • Acquired stock in the Indian company Vertex Software
  • Assumed managerial control of the information system subsidiary of Nippon Mining Holdings
2008
  • Acquired a majority stake in Intelligence AG
  • Acquired a majority stake in Cirquent GmbH
  • Achieved the full-scale implementation of teleworking
  • Commenced online publication of Outsourcer's View Guidelines (System Behavior edition and Data Model edition)
  • Entered into a basic agreement with Kanagawa Bank, Ltd., Tajima Bank, Ltd., Tokyo Tomin Bank, Ltd., Tohoku Bank, Ltd., Toyama Bank, Ltd., and Nagano Bank, Ltd., regarding a study for a new shared data center
  • Established the NTT DATA CCS Corporation
  • Established the Non-functional Requirement Grade Study Panel
  • Established the NTT DATA Daichi Corporation
  • Reached a basic agreement on business alliance with Panasonic Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.
2009
  • Formed a capital and business alliance with XNET Corporation and acquired a controlling interest by takeover bid.
  • In 2009, NTT DATA was chosen as one of the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations.
  • NTT DATA's internal SNS won an IT Management Innovation Award.
  • Established NTT DATA Consulting Corporation as an intermediate holding company to coordinate the efforts of our consulting subsidiaries.
  • Merged NTT DATA Itec Corporation and NTT DATA Science Corporation to form NTT DATA Solfis Corporation.
  • Merged NTT DATA Business Consulting Corporation and Zacatii Consulting, Inc. to form QUNIE CORPORATION.
  • Established NTT DATA Biz Integral Corporation.
  • Formed a capital alliance with Information Technology System Co., Ltd.
  • Formed a capital alliance with Australian firm Extend Technologies Group Holdings Pty Ltd.
  • Merged NTT DATA Net's, Inc. and NTT DATA FIT Corporation to form NTT DATA Financial Core Corporation.
  • Established Hangzhou NTT Data Software Company Limited.
  • Made a takeover bid for NJK Corporation.
  • Launched the Dependable Software Forum aimed at making software more reliable and secure.
2010
  • Made Intelligroup, Inc. a subsidiary through a takeover bid in the U.S. market.
  • Acquired the U.S. IT services company Keane International, Inc. as a subsidiary.
  • Established a venture company with Yucheng Technologies Limited.
  • Acquired a controlling share of ABIC Co., Ltd. relaunching it as NTT DATA ABIC Co., Ltd.
  • Acquired a controlling share of NJK Corporation.
  • Formed a capital alliance with MCS Co., Ltd., relaunching it as NTT DATA MCS CORPORATION.
  • Formed a capital alliance with Malaysian company Business Formula (M) Sdn Bhd.
  • Acquired management rights in Shanghai Synergy Software Co., Ltd., which was renamed as Shanghai NTT DATA Synergy Software Co., Ltd.
  • Formed a capital alliance with U.S. firm RPF Consulting, LLC through our German subsidiary itelligence AG.
  • Acquired shares of Chelford SAP Solutions in the U.K. by German subsidiary itelligence.
  • Merged Solid Exchange Corporation and Webproduce Corporation forming NTT DATA R CORPORATION.
  • Launched the BizXaas brand of NTT DATA cloud services.
  • Began provision of integrated services supporting compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
  • Began commercial sales of vertical integration appliance server Lindacloud?.
  • Received order from Indonesian government to develop a networking system for its National Geo-Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) project.
  • Started collaboration with U.S. firm Cloudera, Inc. aimed at wider adoption of Hadoop large-scale data processing platform.
2011
  • Established Smart Business Promotion Office
  • Fomulated SAP Global One Team Initiative to create a worldwide powerful new system integration team in the SAP ecosystem
  • Acquired the management rights of Keane International, Inc, an US based IT services firm
  • Merged NTT DATA Quick Corporation and NTT DATA SYSTEMS CORPORATION to form NTT DATA BUSINESS SYSTEMS CORPORATION
  • Formed a capital and business alliance with Cornerstone Asia Tech Pte. Ltd. of Singapore
  • Acquired Value Team S.p.A. of Italy
  • Merged NTT DATA(CHINA)Co., Ltd. and Beijing NTT DATA Systems Integration Co., Ltd. and acquired Wuxi NTT DATA Co., Ltd.
  • Merged BEIJING NTT DATA JAPAN Co., Ltd. and Bni Systems Corporation and changed the company name to NTT DATA CHINA OUTSOURCING Co.,Ltd.
  • Marged NTT DATA INTELLILINK CORPORATION and NTT DATA SECURITY CORPORATION

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