NTT DATA Named a Visionary in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for IT Services for Communications Service Providers Worldwide

January 17, 2023

NTT DATA Corporation

TOKYO – January 17, 2023 – NTT DATA, a global digital business and IT services leader, today announced it has been named a Visionary in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Services for Communications Service Providers (CSPs) global report.^*1 The report placed NTT DATA in the Visionaries Quadrant based on its ability to execute and its completeness of vision.

The Magic Quadrant report evaluated 13 service providers' over a broad range of IT services. These include multivendor IT services CSPs buy to enable solutions to their customers, particularly enterprises, and transform their customer, partner, workforce, service or infrastructure management.

"Communications service providers are looking for partners to help them deliver impactful business outcomes in an increasingly competitive market for wireless, wireline, cable and satellite services," said Kaz Nishihata, Senior Executive Vice President & Representative Director at NTT DATA Corporation. "We believe being named a Visionary this Gartner Magic Quadrant report shows that NTT DATA is succeeding in our mission to help our clients leverage cutting-edge technologies and realize a more affluent and harmonious society."

In the report Gartner states that "Visionaries have several areas of strong digital business transformation service capability. Exceptional differentiation is also visible in their approach."

As a leading system integrator, NTT DATA focuses on helping CSPs extend their role beyond connectivity. The company offers solutions and services that help clients adopt open and disaggregated networks, transform their operating models toward a cloud-native infrastructure, achieve maximum efficiency through an autonomous network framework, and accelerate monetization through the creation of new business models leveraging a metaverse ecosystem.

"We take pride in being innovative and forward-thinking in our approach to IT services for CSPs," NTT DATA's Nishihata said. "We believe our vision, combined with our deep CSP industry experience, our investments in R&D, and our longlasting relationships with CSPs,

For more information on this report, please visit gartner.com^*2

For more information about NTT DATA's 5G efforts and thought leadership, please visit 5G page.

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