Company for its Innovation, Global Presence and Focus on Hyper automation
NTT DATA has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Smart Manufacturing Strategy Service Providers 2023-2024 Vendor Assessment report. The report assesses 11 vendors’ capabilities to provide strategic services that solve smart manufacturing operational and IT challenges.
As companies adopt new manufacturing technologies, service providers are playing a greater role helping them both identify the right business cases and achieve value across operations, from product development to service delivery. NTT DATA was one of five companies positioned in the Leaders Category.
Manufacturers are facing unprecedented challenges today trying to integrate new technologies, respond to business pressures and take advantage of emerging market opportunitieS
Kaz Nishihata, Director and Senior Executive Vice President at NTT DATA Group Corporation
The IDC MarketScape noted that “Companies looking to solve their most pressing business issues with advanced technologies can find an optimal partner in NTT DATA.”
“Manufacturers are facing unprecedented challenges today trying to integrate new technologies, respond to business pressures and take advantage of emerging market opportunities,” said, Kaz Nishihata, Director and Senior Executive Vice President at NTT DATA Group Corporation.”
The IDC MarketScape report said, “NTT DATA excels at promoting technology innovation and bringing shopfloor digital infrastructure to the next level.” The report noted NTT DATA’s proven focus on IIoT*, enterprise asset performance, advanced process control, and automated material handling systems. It also highlighted work the company is doing integrating its Manufacturing Execution System (MES) solutions with equipment, specifications management, process management, scheduling, and dispatching.
The IDC MarketScape said, “NTT DATA’s value proposition is based on its global presence, wide ecosystem, fulfillment research and development activities, and its co-innovations with strategic customers and hyperscalers. ” The report noted the company’s focus on hyper automation and its creation of edge machine learning accelerators that enable embedded devices to run local machine learning models.
“Today, companies are going through a massive cultural change, with manufacturing operations transforming from key enablers of the fulfillment process to key enablers of business transformation and business reinvention,” said Lorenzo Veronesi, Associate Research Director for IDC Manufacturing Insights.”
