OREANDA-NEWS.  February 1, 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 & Solucoes Ltda. (legal name) reached an agreement to acquire 100% shares of Total Systems Consulting Group (trade name), RJS Consultoria em Tecnologia da Informaзгo Ltda. (legal name) ("Total Systems"; CEO: Rui Josй Schoenberger; Head office: Sгo 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 Josй 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".