NTT DATA taps Google to drive agentic AI and cloud technology
NTT DATA has announced a global partnership with Google Cloud to accelerate AI-powered cloud innovations and unlock new possibilities with AI for enterprise organisations across industries.
This collaboration brings together deep industry expertise in AI, cloud-native modernisation and data engineering from NTT DATA with advanced analytics, AI and cloud technologies from Google Cloud to deliver tailored, scalable enterprise solutions.
With a focus on co-innovation, the partnership will drive industry-specific cloud and AI solutions, leveraging NTT DATA’s proven frameworks and best practices along with Google Cloud’s capabilities to deliver customised solutions backed by deep implementation expertise. Significant joint go-to-market investments will support seamless adoption across key markets.
According to Gartner®, worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to reach $723 billion in 2025, up from $595.7 billion in 2024.1 The use of AI deployments in IT and business operations is accelerating the reliance on modern cloud infrastructure, highlighting the critical importance of this strategic global partnership.
“This collaboration with Google Cloud represents a significant milestone in our mission to drive innovation and digital transformation across industries,” said Marv Mouchawar, Head of Global Innovation, NTT DATA. “By combining NTT DATA’s deep expertise in AI, cloud-native modernisation and enterprise solutions with Google Cloud’s advanced technologies, we are helping businesses accelerate their AI-powered cloud adoption globally and unlock new growth opportunities.”
“Our partnership with NTT DATA will help enterprises use agentic AI to enhance business processes and solve complex industry challenges,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, President, Global Partner Ecosystem at Google Cloud. “By combining Google Cloud’s AI with NTT DATA’s implementation expertise, we will enable customers to deploy intelligent agents that modernise operations and deliver significant value for their organisations.”
Key focus areas include:
- Industry-specific agentic AI : NTT DATA will build new industry offerings that transform analytics, decision-making and client experiences using Google Agentspace and Gemini models, secure data clean rooms and modernised data platforms.
- AI-driven cloud modernisation: Accelerating enterprise modernisation with Google Distributed Cloud for secure, scalable modernisation built and managed on NTT DATA’s global infrastructure, from data centers to edge to cloud.
- Next-generation application and security modernisation: Strengthening enterprise agility and resilience through mainframe modernisation, DevOps, observability, API management, cybersecurity frameworks and SAP on Google Cloud.
- Sovereign cloud innovation: Delivering secure, compliant offerings through Google Distributed Cloud in both air-gapped and connected deployments. Air-gapped environments operate offline for maximum data isolation. Connected deployments enable secure integration with cloud services. These scenarios meet data sovereignty and regulatory demands in sectors such as finance, government and healthcare without compromising innovation.
- Google Distributed Cloud sandbox environment: Google Distributed Cloud sandbox environment is a digital playground where developers can build, test and deploy industry-specific and sovereign cloud deployments. This sandbox will help teams upskill through hands-on training and accelerate time to market with Google Distributed Cloud technologies through preconfigured, ready-to-deploy templates.
NTT DATA will support these innovations through a full-stack suite of services including advisory, building, implementation and ongoing hosting and managed services.
By combining NTT DATA’s proven blueprints and delivery expertise with Google Cloud technology, the partnership will accelerate the development of repeatable, scalable offerings for enterprise transformation. At the heart of this innovation strategy is Takumi, a GenAI framework developed by NTT DATA that guides clients from idea creation to enterprise-wide deployment. Takumi integrates seamlessly with Google Cloud’s AI stack, enabling rapid prototyping and operationalisation of GenAI use cases.
This initiative expands NTT DATA’s Smart AI Agent Ecosystem, which unites strategic technology partnerships, specialised assets and an AI-ready talent engine to help clients deploy and manage responsible, business-driven AI at scale.
NTT DATA has established a dedicated global Google Cloud Business Group comprising thousands of engineers, architects and advisory consultants. This global team at NTT DATA will work in close collaboration with Google Cloud teams to help clients adopt and scale AI-powered cloud technologies.
NTT DATA is also investing in advanced training and certification programs ensuring teams across sales, pre-sales and delivery are equipped to sell, secure, migrate and implement AI-powered cloud offerings. The company aims to certify 5,000 engineers in Google Cloud technology, further reinforcing its role as a leader in cloud transformation on a global scale.
Additionally, both companies are co-investing in global sales and go-to-market campaigns to accelerate client adoption across priority industries.
“The strengthened partnership between NTT DATA and Google Cloud, which continues to deliver measurable impact. Their combined expertise has been instrumental in migrating more than 380 workloads to Google Cloud to align with our cloud-first strategy,” said José Luis González Santana, Head of IT Infrastructure, Carrefour. “By running SAP HANA on Google Cloud, we have consolidated 100 legacy applications to create a powerful, modernised e-commerce platform across 200 hypermarkets. This transformation has given us the agility we need during peak times like Black Friday and enabled us to launch new services faster than ever. Together, NTT DATA and Google Cloud are helping us deliver more connected, seamless experiences for our customers,”
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