Japan’s NTT DATA and Google Cloud will collaborate help enterprises move from AI experimentation to large-scale deployment of agentic AI solutions, combining Google Cloud’s AI platform capabilities with NTT DATA’s global delivery scale and industry expertise.
In a statement on Tuesday, NTT Data, a global firm in AI, said the two sides have reached an expanded collaboration for the move. Under the partnership, NTT DATA is establishing a dedicated global Gemini Enterprise practice, with a target of certifying 5,000 Gemini Enterprise experts globally.
Besides, the two companies plan to co-develop up to 500 AI agents across horizontal and industry-specific enterprise use cases, creating reusable building blocks for scalable AI adoption. NTT DATA will also embed forward-deployed engineers directly with clients, working alongside Google Cloud engineers to accelerate solution development and address complex technical challenges in real time.
The initiative will support AI deployment across banking, insurance, manufacturing, retail, cloud migration, software development, procurement, and finance operations.
Abhijit Dubey, CEO and Chief AI Officer of NTT DATA, said the expanded partnership is helping clients move beyond pilots and embed AI into the way their organizations operate, creating a faster and lower-risk path to enterprise-wide transformation.
Matt Renner, President and Chief Revenue Officer of Google Cloud, said the partnership combines Google Cloud’s AI platform with NTT DATA’s delivery strength, and that developing hundreds of agents and training thousands of experts will ensure joint customers have the specialized resources to deploy sophisticated AI solutions at global scale.
A recent NTT DATA client survey found that 99 percent of enterprises say AI is driving greater demand for cloud investment, while 88 percent report that current cloud investment levels are putting AI, cloud-native, and modernization initiatives at risk.
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