NTT DATA Business Solutions has snapped up London-HQ channel partner Sapphire to improve its ServiceNow business.
Sapphire has a headcount of around 420 people and delivers software and services to primarily mid-market customers in the US and UK through its partnerships with SAP, ServiceNow and more.
The buy out will help NTT DATA improve its efforts in the SAP mid-market sector while Sapphire, will help its global expansion.
IP Infusion has teamed up with global IT services provider NTT DATA to accelerate the adoption of open networking technologies and solutions.
The pair will bring go-to-market open networking solutions to bring enhanced disaggregation, scalability, and choices to network operators.
For those who came in late, open networking enables network operators to use disaggregated hardware and software components from different vendors rather than relying on proprietary and closed systems from traditional vendors. This allows operators to reduce costs, increase flexibility, and foster network innovation.
This collaboration for expanding broad connectivity was initiated by the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), including TIP solutions for Disaggregated Cell Site Gateways (DCSG) or Cell Site Routers and Cassini for Routed Optical Networking projects. Both NTT DATA and IP Infusion are members of TIP, which is driving development and deployment of open, disaggregated, and standards-based technology solutions to advance global connectivity.
IP Infusion is seen as a pioneer in open networking and flogs a comprehensive portfolio of products and services that support various open networking standards and platforms, such as Open Compute Project (OCP), Telecom Infra Project (TIP), Open Network Install Environment (ONIE), Open Network Linux (ONL), Open Network Operating System (ONOS), OpenDaylight (ODL), OpenSwitch (OPX), and SONiC.
IT services provider and consultancy NTT DATA UK&I has appointed Massimo Fatato as the new Head of Networks.
The appointment is part of NTT DATA’s investment into strengthening its telco business, with Fatato heading up work in OSS Transformation, Telco Cloud and public and private 5G network areas.
Fatato joins NTT DATA with a wealth of experience and knowledge thanks to a career spanning more than 30 years in the telecoms industry.
His career began as a Systems Engineer at Telecom Italia, where he led the design of its OSS, one of the first European carrier deployments, before moving on to Nortel, where he started as a System Engineer and rose through the ranks to become an Account Director.
IT services outfit NTT DATA has appointed Oliver Bridges as its new Head of Energy Data as part of its investment into its Energy & Utilities practice.
Bridges has worked as Head of Data Science and Analytics at Smart DCC, a smart meter network provider connecting over half of Britain’s homes. As part of this role, Bridges used his end-to-end knowledge of Smart DCC’s solution to develop and maintain a nationwide ecosystem of smart meters.
Before Smart DCC, Bridges held the position of Technical Analyst for Centrica, working on the front line of their smart meter rollout, before moving on to help design the data component for Britain’s national smart metering solution.
Rafay Systems has entered into a reseller partnership with global digital business and IT services leader NTT DATA,.
The partnership will expand the adoption of Rafay’s Kubernetes Operations Platform (KOP) in EMEA and APAC regions. Together, Rafay and NTT DATA will help enterprises significantly reduce the complexity, resource requirements, and spiralling costs associated with do-it-yourself (DIY) Kubernetes to ensure the success of application modernisation initiatives.
Rafay Systems CEO Haseeb Budhani said: “By partnering with a revered IT services company like NTT DATA, our joint expertise and best-in-class services can serve more regions around the world and help companies in those markets modernise their infrastructure faster and with less overhead.”
Rafay’s cloud-built KOP is an SaaS solution that streamlines Kubernetes operations for companies deploying modern applications in public clouds, data centres or at remote/edge locations by adding automation, security, visibility and governance capabilities to any Kubernetes distribution and infrastructure.
NTT Data is writing a cheque for Apisero as part of a cunning plan to boost its cloud and data integration offerings.
For those who came in late, Apisero is a Mulesoft and Salesforce partner which looks after enterprise customers to help them break down data silos and automate business processes.
Its UK base is Harrow and NTT Data claims the acquisition will give it more than 2,100 global resources.
NTT DATA UK announced its second Civil Service Data Challenge 2022 which invites Civil Servants to share their ideas on how government can improve its use of data.
The challenge, which sees civil servants pitch their ideas to a panel of senior leaders in a ‘Dragon’s Den’ style competition, is a collaboration between NTT DATA UK, Cabinet Office, Global Government Forum, and the Office for National Statistics.
As part of the Data Challenge, teams of Civil Service volunteers will develop the most promising of these ideas, pitching them to the judges at semi-final and final events – after which the best will receive both technical advice and development support from partner NTT DATA UK, and the backing of top Civil Servants.
Corporate bodies are three times more likely to primarily communicate with their bank through APIs (Application Programming Interfaces – a form of machine-to-machine communication) versus primarily communicating person-to-person.
Number crunchers at NTT DATA found a shift in post-pandemic corporate banking towards more integrated, digitised, sustainable banking aligned to the new generation of millennials taking up senior positions in corporate businesses.
The research found that accelerated adoption of technology combined with generational shifts in clients, and the ongoing recovery from a global pandemic has fundamentally changed banking.
The traditional corporate banking image of personal client relationships is confined to history as corporates prioritise end-to-end digitisation and frictionless banking. 85 percent of banks report they are working on rationalising their portals, a change driven by client-centricity and improving the customer experience.
NTT Data is teaming up with AWS to support clients’ use of cloud services to accelerate “digital transformation”.
The global agreement will combine NTT Data’s solutions that match clients’ business needs with AWS to develop new services.
The cloud solutions will be in areas such as data collection, analysis and security, and NTT Data say they will all be available on AWS Marketplace.
NTT says it also intends to increase the number of its AWS certified engineers in the NTT Data Group from 2,300 to 5,000 by the end of March 2025.
NTT data announced the graduation of its sponsored candidates participating in the route2work digital skills Academy programme.
The scheme forms part of the outfit’s activities designed to support women into tech careers and invest in their development as they progress. The graduates of the route2work programme, who come from a wide range of backgrounds, received training in Microsoft skills.
The partnership with route2work saw NTT data fund scholarships for 30 women to enrol in one of four digital skills and it aimed to give those who otherwise lacked opportunities to enter the industry.
NTT Data has brought its Everis business and its EMEA division under the same umbrella to create EMEAL.
The new outfit will have 38,000 employees across 25 countries and a revenue of €3 billion.
NTT Data claims the move is a “fundamental step towards operating as one NTT Data globally”.
Everis CEO Fritz Hoderlein, will take over as the CEO of the newly created division.
EMC is looking to sell its Documentum software unit in a move that parallels Dell’s efforts to sell off assets ahead of the companies’ pending merger.
According to Bloomberg, EMC had agreed to a Dell plan to shop the Documentum software business to prospective private equity buyers as part of an effort to offset the cost of acquiring EMC. However it is equally possible that EMC wants the cash to buy something nice.
Few EMC partners sell Documentum. EMC partners work at the infrastructure level, rather than the application level with document management. Documentum software tracks corporate documents. EMC acquired the company in 2003 for about $1.7 billion.
Dell expects its acquisition of EMC to close between May and October. Dell has been flogging off assets to offset the cost of the transaction. The acquisition deal is worth around $60 billion. Dell intends to take on as much as $49.5 billion in debt in order to complete it.
It has flogged off Perot Systems business to NTT Data of Japan for about $3.1 billion and is trying to find a buyer for SonicWall security business and Quest software. This should get it $4 billion.
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