TOKYO – June 28, 2021 —NTT DATA, a global digital business and IT services leader, today announced that it has won the 2020 Qlik Global and Regional Partner Award in the category "Asia Pacific System Integrator Partner of the Year". This award was announced by Qlik Technologies Inc. at its annual customer and partner event QlikWorld, recognizing the Qlik partner community for excellence in several different categories.

NTT DATA received the award for its outstanding performance as a system integrator service provider delivering high business value to its customers by utilizing Qlik products in the Asia Pacific Region in the past year.

In 2020, NTT DATA Group successfully delivered Qlik data analytics and data integration solutions to customers in finance, manufacturing and a variety of other industries in Japan and other areas of the Asia Pacific region. In particular, in November 2020, NTT DATA's SaaS/PaaS solution "Qlik Managed Service on A-gate" was adopted by Mizuho Bank as the platform for its new statistical data sales and analytics service "Mizuho Bank Insight Portal (Mi-Pot)," the first data provision business launched by a banking institution in Japan.

"We are honored to receive the APAC System Integrator Partner of the Year Award from Qlik. The utilization of data has become a critical challenge for our customers. It is very important for us to choose a powerful tool like Qlik that can fully leverage our capabilities in system integration to support our customers' business success." said Kotaro Moritani, Head of First Banking Division, Second Financial Sector of NTT DATA Corporation, overseeing the partnership with Qlik.

Global partnership between NTT DATA and Qlik Technologies

In January 2019, NTT DATA Corporation signed an MSP (Managed Service Provider) partnership agreement with QlikTech Japan K.K., Qlik's Japanese subsidiary. This agreement authorized NTT DATA and its group companies to provide Qlik products as a SaaS model around the globe. In the same year, NTT DATA started the new service "Qlik Managed Service on A-gate" in Japan, a cloud platform providing a full stack of Qlik analytics and data integration products. In 2020, similar platforms and services were launched in China, Thailand (for APAC region) and the UK, delivered by NTT DATA group companies.

About Qlik Managed Services on A-gate

"Qlik Managed Service on A-gate" is a managed service (SaaS/PaaS type) by implementing Qlik products on "A-gate", an enterprise level high-security public cloud service provided by NTT DATA. This is the only authorized Qlik managed service in Japan that can be provided to both domestic and overseas customers via NTT DATA Corporation and its group companies. In addition to enterprises' internal use in supporting decision making or process optimization, "Qlik Managed Service on A-gate" can also be utilized as a data collaboration platform for data collection, data sharing, and data provision for external parties (customers, business partners, suppliers, etc.).

※Collaboration between NTT Data, Snowflake, and Qlik DX in Digital Data Utilization
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About NTT DATA

NTT DATA – a part of NTT Group – is a trusted global innovator of IT and business services headquartered in Tokyo. We help clients transform through consulting, industry solutions, business process services, digital & IT modernization and managed services. NTT DATA enables them, as well as society, to move confidently into the digital future. We are committed to our clients' long-term success and combine global reach with local client attention to serve them in over 50 countries around the globe. Visit us at nttdata.com.

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