NTT Data Corp : Capital alliance with business critical Brazilian IT services provider, Total Systems Consulting Group.

Tokyo, February 1st , 2012- NTT DATA CORPORATION ("NTT DATA"; President and CEO: Toru Yamashita; Head office: Koto-ku, Tokyo), through its subsidiary Value Team Consulting & Solution (trade name), Value Team Brasil Consultoria em T.I & Soluções Ltda. (legal name) reached an agreement to acquire 100% shares of Total Systems Consulting Group (trade name), RJS Consultoria em Tecnologia da Informação Ltda. (legal name) ("Total Systems"; CEO: Rui José Schoenberger; Head office: São Paulo, Brazil), which specializes in IT solutions, payments application, consulting and outsourcing in Brazil.

Value Team, with a presence in Brazil, Italy and Turkey, has a complete and structured offering of business critical IT services, covering IT consulting, system integration, application management and outsourcing. Value Team is providing support to the major companies operating in the banking, insurance, telecommunications, media, manufacturing and retail sectors.

Through this strategic partnership, NTT DATA will further expand its geographic reach in Brazil into the growing Latin American markets.

NTT DATA group has set targets for overseas sales at 300 billion yen and the ratio of overseas sales at 20% for the March 2013 quarter as part of its current medium term management plan, and is actively working to expand its presence overseas. In Brazil, the goal is threefold; (1) provide IT solutions and services to Japanese companies in Brazil, (2) establish the presence in a strong growth market, (3) set up a base in the country to go for other markets in the region. In order to achieve the targets, NTT DATA intends to make further investments in Brazil and other emerging regions.

Kazuhiro Nishihata, Senior Vice President of NTT DATA commented: "Welcoming Total Systems Consulting Group to NTT DATA Group will enable us to strengthen our credible and comprehensive IT services in Latin America, a market where Value Team has an outstanding reputation and trust of its customers in providing IT services especially in the area of telecommunication, financial and manufacturing sector in Brazil, which have been also familiar to NTT DATA Group over the years. I believe that this would, aligning Total Systems Consulting Group with our global scale, offer more efficient and higher value solutions to our customers."

Patrizio Mapelli, CEO of Value Team commented: "This partnership will enable us to widen our portfolio and expand the presence in the financial market, especially in financial sector. Moreover, by leveraging on NTT DATA's brand we will increase also our presence in public sector. Our competences pool has been enriched with excellent Total Systems skills and we will provide our customers even more best-in-class solutions".

Rui José Schoenberger, founder and CEO of Total Systems commented: "This operation makes us part of one of the largest global IT service providers and will provide access to NTT DATA's European, American and Asian businesses which will make it possible for us to support our customers on an even more global basis. Our competences will have now a real international role and our quality of services will be enhanced for sure".

Corporate Profile of Total Systems Consulting Group.

(1) Name	Total Systems Consulting Group (trade name) RJS Consultoria em Tecnologia da Informação Ltda. (legal name)
(2) Fields of business	Solutions in the areas of: Technology, Consulting, Development, Project Management
(3) Established	2003
(4) Head office	Rua Bela Cintra, 643 - 2° e 4° andares São Paulo - SP/ CEP: 01415-000
(5) Representative	Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba - Brazil
(6) Revenue	Real 24.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2010

About NTT DATA CORPORATION

NTT DATA is a quoted subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation ("NTT"). It offers a broad range of IT services including consulting, systems integration and IT outsourcing. NTT DATA recorded total revenues of approx. JPY 1.16 trillion (USD 15 billion) for the year ended March 31, 2011, and has more than 57,000 employees as of September 2011. NTT DATA has taken various steps to develop its business on a global scale. For more information visit the NTT DATA website: http://www.nttdata.com/.

About Value Team

Value Team was established in 2004 as part of Value Partners strategy to offer business critical IT services. The company developed through internal growth as well as acquisitions in Brazil and in Italy. Value Team is now one of the leading ICT players in Italy and abroad with a specific focus on business-critical applications. It serves over 300 clients mainly in the telecommunications, financial institutions and manufacturing sectors. Value Team draws on approximately 3,000 professionals worldwide, 500 of them in Brazil, and generated EUR 308 million in revenues in 2010, of which EUR 46 million in Brazil. www.valueteam.com/english/

About Total Systems Consulting Group

Established in 2003 and located in Sao Paulo, Total Systems Consulting Group is a Brazilian Company controlled by the shareholders Rui José Schoenberger and José Luiz Cravero that have come from Financial and IT Market. Total Systems Consulting Group is a system integrator focused on core process for Financial Institutions. It has a long business relationship with HSBC and others financial institutions in term of providing Bank Branches Automation, Payment Authorization Gateway document management solutions. The offers cover the entire value chain: consulting services, technology services and outsourcing. Total Systems has approximately 200 professional with Real 24.2 million in revenues in 2010. www.totalsystems.com.br

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