Keane Associates was founded on December 15, 1965 in Boston, Massachusetts by John F. Keane. The company's initial focus was in the healthcare technology sector. The company grew to over 100 employees within ten years. By the 1990s Keane had become a publicly traded company and expanded into software engineering, application maintenance, program management and consulting services. September 11, 2001 - One of the company's locations was the
South Tower in New York City that collapsed because of the
9/11 terror attacks. October 20, 2003 - Keane acquired a majority (60%) interest in Worldzen, a global
Business Process Outsourcing organization. The entity worked closely with their consulting arm,
Keane Consulting Group. February 7, 2007 - Caritor acquired Keane, Inc. The combined entity retained the name of Keane. The corporate headquarters was relocated to San Francisco, CA and then to Boston, MA. On January 3, 2011, it was announced that Keane had become a wholly owned subsidiary of
NTT DATA Corporation of Japan. and came to be known as Keane, an NTT Data Company The company was at the time of its acquisition by NTT, approximately half-owned by. In 2012, all North American (and a lot of other global) entities of NTT were amalgamated under the NTT DATA name and reorganized based on their area of specialty. At this point, all legacy companies (Keane, Revere Group, Intelligroup, Vertex, MISI, and NTT DATA AgileNet) were operating as NTT DATA Americas. ==Subsidiaries==