NTT Data to buy WinWire, adds 1,000+ Azure engineers

NTT Data announced it will acquire California-based WinWire, bringing more than 1,000 Azure engineers and specialists into its global Microsoft practice. The company said the acquisition aims to expand its capabilities in agentic AI, data engineering and cloud-native application development. Financial terms and a closing date were not disclosed, and the deal remains subject to customary closing conditions.

WinWire, founded in 2007, provides AI-led digital transformation services and has focused its work on Microsoft technologies including Fabric and Azure AI Foundry. The firm has received six Microsoft Partner of the Year awards and is part of the Microsoft Agentic Partner Alliance Program. WinWire also offers an “Agentic AI @ Scale” framework intended to design and deploy autonomous systems into enterprise workflows.

Abhijit Dubey, NTT DATA’s CEO and chief AI officer, said the acquisition advances the company’s enterprise AI strategy and expands its leadership in Microsoft Azure and AI-powered cloud transformation. He described the combination of WinWire’s cloud-native and agentic AI capabilities with NTT Data’s global delivery as a way to help clients move from experimentation to enterprise-wide AI deployment.

WinWire CEO Ashu Goel called joining NTT DATA “an exciting new chapter,” and said the transaction will allow the company to extend its services to a broader global client base and accelerate AI-driven projects for customers.

Microsoft welcomed the agreement. Stephen Boyle, corporate vice president of enterprise partner solutions at Microsoft, said combining NTT DATA’s global scale with WinWire’s cloud-native and agentic AI expertise enhances the partners’ ability to co-innovate and deliver solutions on Azure.

NTT Data said the combined teams will support delivery of industry-specific AI solutions across infrastructure, applications, data, managed services and security. The company’s Global Business Unit for Microsoft Cloud operates in more than 50 countries, and NTT Data reported it holds over 24,000 Microsoft certifications across its workforce.

Company statements framed the acquisition as a response to growing enterprise demand for platforms and practices that support large-scale AI deployments and cloud-native infrastructure. NTT Data said WinWire’s Azure-focused tools and frameworks will be integrated into its existing service lines so clients can deploy agentic AI alongside data engineering and managed services.

No financial details or timeline for closing were released.