On November 20, 2024, NTT DATA, a global digital business and IT services leader, announced its AI innovations at the Microsoft Ignite conference. As a Microsoft Global Systems Integrator Partner, NTT DATA supports clients in digital transformation, focusing on Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Azure OpenAI, and service capabilities. NTT DATA also announced the general availability of tsuzumi on Azure through Microsoft’s Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform in Japan. Tsuzumi is a small language model designed for Japanese language processing, capable of handling both Japanese and English. NTT DATA's asset and accelerator platform, GenAI TechHub, was also showcased at the event. TechHub hosts a suite of integrated, prequalified generative GenAI prototypes, components, toolkits, and solutions. NTT DATA clients have achieved 40% faster deployments, lowered costs, and improved time to market and ROI through the platform. Lastly, NTT DATA’s Coding platform accelerates legacy application modernization with Azure OpenAI, reducing costs and boosting efficiency by automating up to 80% of code generation and transformation tasks, improving project efficiency by 40%.