International Data Corporation (IDC) announced the national winners of the IDC Future Enterprise Awards (FEA) 2025 for the ASEAN region. Representing standout innovations from Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, this year’s winners are leading the shift from experimentation to execution – embedding AI into everything from financial inclusion and risk analytics to sustainable ecosystems and national tourism.
Now in its ninth year, the IDC Future Enterprise Awards have recognised digital transformation excellence across Asia/Pacific since 2017. Over 4,000 unique organisations have submitted nominations, with more than 700 winners celebrated regionally to date.
“This year’s ASEAN winners are redefining digital leadership at scale,” said Linus Lai, vice president, Digital Business, IDC Asia/Pacific. “They’re deploying AI not just as a tool, but as a transformative force – enabling faster decision-making, inclusive access, and operational breakthroughs. From generative AI assistants to digital farming and safer construction sites, these organisations are setting a new standard for innovation in Southeast Asia.”
The winning projects reveal ASEAN’s shift from experimentation to execution across generative AI financial inclusion, infrastructure resilience, and sustainable growth. Together, they signal a region scaling digital with confidence and impact.
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The following are the best out of all the nominations received from across ASEAN:
Best in AI-Ready Digital Infrastructure | Modernized Data Platform by KASIKORN Business-Technology Group (KBTG) | Thailand
Designed to address critical limitations in legacy systems that hampered scalability, agility, and time-to-insight across KBANK’s fast-evolving digital ecosystem, the Modernized Data Platform introduces a resilient, extensible, and automation-first architecture that integrates cloud operational data stores, low/no-code GenAI-powered data pipelines, AI observability layers, and Responsible AI controls. With this backbone, KBTG now supports real-time decisioning, enterprise-scale data ingestion, and seamless access across 20M+ customer records, empowering over 45 departments to leverage AI in production. The platform also features an AI & Data Playground for rapid prototyping, a GenAI assistant for enterprise data discovery (GEDI), and system observability agents (e.g., OB1 and YODA) to monitor, self-heal, and optimize infrastructure autonomously — ensuring high performance, security, and regulatory compliance.
SOURCE: IDC