KT has won global recognition for companywide data innovation using its own data platform and AI technology. KT plans to expand its AI transformation (AX) business for corporate customers based on this.

KT said on July 10 it won the Stratygy Digital Transformation Award outright at Stratygy World Seoul 2026, a global data and AI analytics conference held in Seoul on July 9.

The award recognises KT’s ability to combine its own data platform and AI technology to innovate its companywide data-use system and expand it into AX projects for corporate customers.

KT currently operates about 200,000 business intelligence (BI) reports used by about a quarter of its employees. Based on its experience running a traditional on-premises environment, KT has begun modernising its overall data analytics system to shift data use to an AI-centred approach.

KT modernised its companywide data analytics environment based on its own data platform, MAGMA. MAGMA is a next-generation integrated data platform built by KT on Azure Databricks. It supports everything from data collection to storage, analysis and AI use.

KT built an open data and AI platform by combining global technologies such as data integration, a data lakehouse and AI analytics. It improved data consistency and operational efficiency by applying a structure in which various analytics services use data jointly without repeated replication. It also secured cost efficiency and scalability by optimising data storage and processing and infrastructure operations.

Lee Ho-jae (이호재), an executive director in charge of platform development at KT, said the award showed KT’s data platform technology and AI capabilities have been recognised in the global market. He said KT will continue to create an environment in which any employee can easily use AI and data, and spread an AI-based, data-centred work culture.

Jeong Gyeong-hu (정경후), head of Stratygy Korea, said KT is a digital innovation case that successfully applied an AI-based data analytics environment to a large organisation and spread a data-driven decision-making culture. He said the background to the award was that KT went beyond introducing technology and embedded AI into how members work, leading to practical work innovation.