NTT DATA and Microsoft Partner to Accelerate Business Innovation with AI-Driven Solutions

NTT DATA and Microsoft Forge AI-Driven Partnership

NTT DATA, a global digital business and IT services leader, is set to showcase its AI innovations at Microsoft Ignite, an annual conference for developers, IT professionals, and partners. This collaboration emphasizes how businesses can leverage the power of AI and the Microsoft Cloud to drive innovation and digital transformation 1

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Empowering Businesses with AI Solutions

As a Microsoft Global Systems Integrator Partner, NTT DATA is supporting clients in navigating digital transformation, with a focus on Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Azure OpenAI, and service capabilities. The partnership aims to help businesses modernize and manage intelligent applications, safeguard data, and accelerate productivity in an increasingly AI-driven world 2

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Marv Mouchawar, Head of Global Innovation at NTT DATA, stated, "We have a responsibility to foster reliable outcomes with clear business value. NTT DATA helps clients identify new ways to leverage, expand and optimize data" 2

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Introducing tsuzumi: AI-Powered Language Model

A significant development in this partnership is the general availability of tsuzumi on Azure through Microsoft's Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform in Japan. tsuzumi is a lightweight, small language model designed for Japanese language processing, with bilingual capabilities in Japanese and English 2

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Stephen Boyle, Global Leader of GSI, ESI and Advisory Partners at Microsoft, commented, "By collaborating with NTT, we are making the tsuzumi LLM bilingual model available in the Azure Model Catalog. This model delivers efficient Japanese AI capabilities that excel in summarization, content generation, and information retrieval" 2

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GenAI TechHub: Accelerating AI Solution Adoption

NTT DATA is introducing its asset and accelerator platform, GenAI TechHub, at Microsoft Ignite. This platform hosts a suite of integrated, prequalified generative AI prototypes, components, toolkits, and solutions. TechHub aims to minimize complexity and risk while speeding up solution adoption 2

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The platform has demonstrated impressive results, with clients achieving 40% faster deployments, lowered costs, and improved time to market and ROI. TechHub includes tailored and scalable features, from interface to core functionalities, as well as end-to-end security and governance with bias and breach mitigation 2

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Modernizing Legacy Applications with Azure OpenAI

NTT DATA's Coding platform, designed for rapid and efficient transformations, accelerates legacy application modernization using Azure OpenAI. This solution offers significant benefits to enterprises, including:

1. Reducing costs and boosting efficiency by automating up to 80% of code generation and transformation tasks
2. Cutting development costs and improving project efficiency by 40%
3. Potentially reducing time-to-market by up to 50% 2

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NTT DATA's AI Expertise and Future Outlook

NTT DATA's expertise in generative AI is backed by NTT Group's extensive research and development investments, including over 40 years of continuous AI R&D. The company ranks 12th among companies with the most generative AI patents worldwide 2

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Moving forward, NTT DATA will continue to invest and innovate in generative AI to further transform its clients' operations and its own. The company adheres to NTT DATA Group's AI Guidelines, ensuring responsible and ethical AI development and implementation 2

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