Vendor Analysis
published on Mar 02, 2021
Report Overview:
This NelsonHall assessment analyzes NTT DATA's offerings and capabilities in Blockchain Services 2020 Evaluation.
Who is this Report for:
NelsonHall’s Blockchain Services 2020 Evaluation, provides an assessment of NTT DATA’s blockchain services capabilities designed for:
- Sourcing managers investigating sourcing deployments within blockchain and identifying vendor suitability for RFPs
- Operation transformation center of excellence personnel and process decision makers evaluating vendor capabilities for adopting blockchain into operational processes
- Vendor marketing, sales, and business managers developing strategies to identify developments and target opportunities within managed service programs
- Financial analysts and investors covering the blockchain industry and suppliers.
Scope of this Report:
The report provides a comprehensive and objective analysis of NTT DATA’s blockchain offering and capabilities, and market and financial strength, including:
- Identification of the company’s strategy, emphasis, and new developments in both its service and technology
- Analysis of the company’s strengths, challenges, and outlook
- Analysis of the profile of the company’s customer base including its targeting strategy and examples of current contracts
- Analysis of the company’s key offerings (service model and service components)
- Analysis of the company’s delivery capabilities (including location, size and scale of delivery operations, and delivery via technology).
Key Findings & Highlights:
NTT DATA divides its blockchain offerings into services around its proprietary blockchain assets and services surrounding technologies in industry partnerships and consortia.
Services are delivered through the eXponential Universe, the company's strategic framework that brings:
- The Garage: a space of creation and prototyping to understand how business challenges can be solved through blockchain technologies
- Proprietary assets: development utilities and prebuilt platforms for major blockchain architectures
- Consortia: ecosystems built from geographic and industry use case collaborations between private and public organizations, e.g., LACChain in Latin America, TradeWaltz in ASEAN, and Spunta in Italy.
NTT DATA's blockchain CoE is part of its digital services unit that houses centers of excellence for seven areas including AI, DevOps, digital design, IoT, intelligent automation, and software engineering automation.
The company also has collaborative research and development efforts with academic partners, including Comillas Pontifical University, Georgetown University, London School of Economics, Polytechnic University of Milan, University of Calabria, University College London, Tokyo University, and Tsinghua University.
NTT DATA targets enterprises with $1bn+ revenue and large public entities for its blockchain offerings.