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Turning ideas into scalable digital solutions—accelerating transformation through design, technology, and engineering excellence.

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Redefining mobility hubs with digital innovation to create smarter, sustainable experiences for people and businesses on the move.

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Building resilient, intelligent supply networks that anticipate change and deliver efficiency with purpose.

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Driving responsible innovation to help organizations achieve net-zero goals and create a positive impact for future generations.

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Physical AI gives machines, robots and physical operations the ability to perceive their environment, decide what matters and act in real time. Factories, plants, stores and infrastructure become systems able to sense conditions, learn from them and improve on their own, closing the gap between the physical and the digital world.

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From networks as infrastructure to connected platforms that enable critical, autonomous and intelligent operations.

3% more invoices per person in an automated Procure-to-Pay cycle

Purchasing teams spent hours on each invoice, and the cycle had gaps in control. NTT DATA reviewed operations, tools and the organizational model, then built a roadmap with four automation scenarios. Each person in the process now handles 43% more invoices, and the process runs with 34% fewer full-time employees.

3% more invoices per person in an automated Procure-to-Pay cycle

43% more invoices per person in an automated Procure-to-Pay cycle

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Distribution equipment and service vehicles staged at a Brazilian utility operations yard, showing how workforce, materials and delivery capacity shape which grid investments can be executed.

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Utilities

Transmission & Distribution

Investing where the network needs it most

5 Oct 2026

Turn asset evidence into capital confidence, and direct every real towards measurable network value.

Capital plans need an evidence chain

Asset health is the starting point. Leaders also need criticality, network risk, intervention alternatives and delivery constraints to compare investments and explain each decision.

At a glance

The investment priorities shaping Brazil’s distribution networks.

Four facts define the investment decision facing Brazilian distribution leaders.

R$235.6 billion is planned

Major distributors forecast this investment for 2025–2029 across expansion, improvement and renewal.

Expansion takes most capital

Expansion accounts for 61.4%, improvement 24.8% and renewal 13.8% of the published total.

Risk is wider than condition

Criticality, redundancy, failure consequences, climate exposure, cost, timing and operating alternatives can change asset priority.

Execution must shape the portfolio

Teams, contractors, materials, outage windows, permits, lead times and budget determine what the plan can deliver.

What leaders should do

Use one investment decision to test alternatives and establish a repeatable governance standard.

Ddownload the full report and explore the evidence framework, portfolio scenarios and 90-day executive agenda for making investment decisions more traceable, executable and defensible.

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