Global business is one of the pillars of growth within NTT Group's Medium-Term Management Strategy. So far, in the corporate ICT services field, NTT Group has worked to enhance its lineup of services, including networks, data centers and solutions, and to continue to expand coverage areas.
NTT Communications operates network services in 159 countries worldwide under the Arcstar brand. It is also working to strengthen the IP backbone that supports Internet use and has achieved a 500 Gbps circuit capacity for the Japan-U.S. backbone, the highest level in the industry. NTT Communications has also established data centers to handle customer data in 31 cities, primarily in Europe, North America and Asia, steadily building its services infrastructure.

NTT DATA is in a position to provide services including business applications development and support as well as system architecture in 34 countries by acquiring global companies such as Keane International, Inc., Intelligroup, Inc., Cirquent GmbH and itelligence AG. In particular, with respect to SAP^*1, which has a global share in the ERP^*2 field, NTT DATA is building a structure that will enable its domestic subsidiaries and acquired overseas subsidiaries, to offer sales, solutions and support worldwide, as a single team.
Despite these initiatives in place, there was still room for improvement in business domains such as developing, maintaining and operating network devices and servers within customer premises, as well as in extension of the geographical reach of its services to regions such as Africa, the Middle East and South America. The acquisition of Dimension Data Holdings plc ("Dimension Data") as a wholly-owned subsidiary, which was completed in December 2010, has resolved this issue and allowed NTT to make great advances in its initiatives.

• *1 In this article, SAP is a general term for ERP packages provided by SAP AG of Germany.
• *2 Information system package that supports core corporate operations such as orders and sales management, inventory management, production management and accounting.
• *3 Annual global ranking of companies worldwide by sales compiled by FORTUNE, the largest business magazine in the world.
• *4 A sales approach recommending related products and additional products that can be used together for customers thinking about buying a certain product in order to generate increased sales.