Software Technologies in the Data-centric Era

With the arrival of a data-centric society, where various types of value are created from real-world data, demand for system infrastructure and software-development methods as business evolves has risen to an even greater level. In this article, we introduce various technological challenges and the efforts of NTT laboratories, particularly the NTT Software Innovation Center, in developing an information-processing infrastructure for the data-centric era to meet the requirements of business evolution and support a data-centric society. © 2022 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.. All rights reserved.