NTT Data Services, LLC — commonly branded NTT DATA Services (formerly Keane, Inc.) — is a U.S. information-technology services company headquartered in Plano, Texas, founded in 1967. It is not publicly traded; it operates as a subsidiary of NTT DATA Corporation of Tokyo, which is itself part of NTT Group. Employee counts in public profiles vary by source (roughly 50,000 for the services division, with the broader NTT DATA group reported at 150,000+). NTT DATA group revenue is reported in the tens of billions of dollars, though figures differ by source and year.
Operations. NTT DATA Services is an operating company, not a patent holder without products. It sells IT and business-process services, including consulting, application development and modernization, cloud transformation, infrastructure and managed services, enterprise applications, data intelligence and automation, customer experience, and cybersecurity. Its client base spans healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, the public sector, and other commercial industries in North America and internationally.
Litigation posture. The case data shows 0 cases as plaintiff and 1 as defendant, which is the signature of an operating company defending against assertion rather than an entity monetizing patents. That single tracked matter is Valtrus Innovations Ltd. v. NTT Data Services, LLC et al., filed May 14, 2024 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division (No. 2:24-cv-00361) — a plaintiff-friendly venue.
Context. Valtrus Innovations Ltd. is an Irish licensing entity holding a portfolio acquired from Hewlett Packard Enterprise; the asserted patents (e.g., U.S. 6,854,287; 6,862,179; 6,868,682; 6,718,277; 7,031,870) concern data-center cooling, atmospheric control, and energy management. The suit was filed against a large group of data-center operators and customers, with equipment vendor Vertiv intervening and counterclaiming, and it was later consolidated into an MDL proceeding. Reports describe a separate 2026 Valtrus action against NTT Global Data Centers Americas, Inc., a distinct NTT affiliate, not the entity in this profile.