TOKYO, Japan — March 31, 2016 — NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within NTT (NYSE: NTT), announced today that it will expand overseas sales of ID Federation, an Identity as a Service (IDaaS) that enables diverse business applications to be used conveniently and securely with one ID, from April 1, 2016.

In addition to Japan, Singapore and Thailand, where NTT Com has been offering ID Federation since October 2015, NTT Com will start providing the service in Hong Kong and Taiwan, where the cloud service industry is robust, and Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam, where many businesses have manufacturing sites.

Advantages

Enterprises now face the difficult challenge of securely and efficiently managing different IDs and passwords for each employee on a wide variety of cloud and on-premise applications, including Sales Force Automation (SFA), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and data storage.

ID Federation enables enterprises to seamlessly sign-on with one ID to over 1,600 Software as a Service (Saas) applications, including Microsoft Office 365, Salesforce, Box, and Google Apps, as well as the customer's on-premises systems. It can also be utilized in environments with multiple Active Directories (AD) or those without.

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Service Menu

Menu	Contents
Basic	Single sign-on to SaaS offered by NTT Com ID and password authentication Standardized risk-based authentication Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) sync ID portal, control panel for administrators Cloud desktop, SSO portal for users
Optional	Additional applications	One application
		Five applications
		10 applications
	Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)	Swipe
		Device authentication
		TOTP (Time-based One-Time Password)

Moving forward, NTT Com is planning to launch the service in Europe and North America.

Use the contact information below for more information on applications and prices for each country.