NTT DATA: Gearing for a 25x AI Economy Through Responsible, Full-Stack Transformation

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This IDC Market Note summarizes key insights from the NTT DATA Horizons Innovation Summit and Analyst Forum 2025 in Bangalore, highlighting how NTT DATA is repositioning itself as a full-stack transformation partner for the AI era. The event showcased the company's CEO-led AI strategy, responsible innovation ethos, and ambition to capture a significantly expanded addressable market through AI-native services, agentic business operations, and services-as-software (SaS) models. IDC observed a coherent strategy spanning AI-ready infrastructure, sovereign and private AI, agentic automation, integrated cybersecurity, and deep vertical alignment across industries, including manufacturing, automotive, banking, and insurance. Demonstrations and analyst briefings reinforced NTT DATA's focus on embedding "AI inside," strengthening digital resilience, and operationalizing AI at scale through platform-led architectures, global delivery with local proximity, and outcome-oriented engagement models. Collectively, the discussions position NTT DATA as a credible, next-generation services provider capable of helping enterprises transition from experimentation to secure, scalable, and measurable AI-driven transformation.

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NTT DATA's AI strategy
NTT DATA underscores its renewed focus on networking, reflecting the importance of infrastructure in the AI era
NTT DATA's integrated cybersecurity: Catalyst for enterprise resilience
NTT DATA positioning itself as a "full-stack transformation company for the AI era"
NTT DATA's vision for the future of applications and BPS
NTT DATA as a compelling next-generation digital transformation service provider in the AI era