ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY
Restructuring of NTT DATA Group
From April this year , the NTT DATA Group will consist of NTT DATA Japan , contributing
$ 12 billion in annual revenue and NTT DATA Inc , consisting of operations outside of Japan , contributing $ 18 billion . The total revenue for NTT DATA Group will be $ 30 billion annually . With this annual revenue , NTT DATA Group is ranked amongst the top five IT service providers . Dimension Data will operate as NTT DATA Inc across Middle East and Africa .
With 80 data centres across 20 countries , NTT DATA Group is the third largest data centre provider and fourth largest application services provider .
NTT DATA will consist of multiple geographical operations delivering horizontal IT expertise . They can access additional vertical market and application platform services from the centrally managed entities , Global Technology Services and Business Solutions . NTT Global Headquarters will provide the support functions servicing the go-to-market units .
Across Middle East and Africa , Dimension Data operates 90 POPS ; it has access to over 600Gbps of international high-speed bandwidth ; it has access to 1,600 + terminals with teleports in African countries ; it has access to 13 data centres in Africa ; and partners with 100 + carrier service providers .
The global portfolio of IT services from NTT DATA includes data centres and connectivity , cloud and security services , network and collaboration services , technology solutions , local services .
NTT DATA provides vertical market services for financial services , public sector , healthcare , insurance , higher education , life sciences , retail , transportation , logistics , manufacturing , automotive , energy , utilities , telecom , media , technology .
Over a number of years , the customer base of Dimension Data across Africa , the Pan Africa business , has come to know the NTT brand .
Once grouped into NTT DATA , the Dimension Data team will have much more access to application platform services , driven by SAP , Salesforce , ServiceNow platforms . NTT DATA ’ s global teams provide managed services around those platforms .
Turnley Jones believes the Dimension Data team could draw these services down into the region and begin to exploit them across their existing client base . “ Currently , from a cloud perspective , even today as Dimension Data we provide cloudbased services on Azure AWS , and we have done quite a lot of development work on those ,” he adds .
Another advantage that NTT DATA will bring to the region is its vertical market focus . While Dimension Data has traditionally been known as a horizontal system integrator in the region , NTT DATA has got deep vertical expertise , that will resonate in select verticals in the region .
“ We have already started exploiting some of those , for example , retail and pharmaceuticals . That is not something that we have historically had within our capability and portfolio ,” says Turnley Jones .
Leveraging its strengths
After consolidation of assets inside Japan and outside Japan , NTT DATA Group is the third largest data centre provider globally , with 80 data centres . NTT DATA has already built its first data centre in Africa located at
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