Salesforce, Inc. (NYSE:CRM) has selected NTT DATA Group Corp. (OTC:NTDTY) to drive standardization and streamlining of its application environment.

As per the deal, NTT DATA will support the management and development of applications across Salesforce's organization, including its internal instance of Salesforce.

The applications include Salesforce Sales, Marketing and Commerce Clouds, MuleSoft, Heroku, Slack, and hundreds of third-party and custom apps.

Aaron Millstone, Chief Growth Officer, NTT DATA North America, said, "We have a 360-degree partnership that includes go-to-market and now a robust environment of internal applications. Clients across all industries turn to us to modernize their application portfolios, and Salesforce selected NTT DATA due to our more than 40-year history in managed services as well as our global reach and expertise in Salesforce and MuleSoft services."

Juan Perez, Chief Information Officer, Salesforce, commented, "By consolidating managed services across the Salesforce stack, we can focus on building new capabilities and helping our customers use data and AI to achieve better insights for their users and better productivity for their employees."

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Price Action: CRM shares are up 0.07% at $276.87 at the last check Monday.

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