RED HAT INNOVATION AWARDS 2025

KOSTAL (Shanghai) Management Co., Ltd., the Asian headquarters and one of the global R&D centers of the KOSTAL Group, provides comprehensive solutions for automotive electrical systems, industrial electrical systems, connectors, and testing equipment. In 2025, KOSTAL (Shanghai) ranked 98th among Shanghai’s Top 100 Enterprises and 36th among the Top 100 Manufacturing Enterprises. As the need for production line digitalization continues to grow, the company embarked on building a cloud platform capable of processing massive amounts of data, establishing a solid foundation for its digital transformation journey.

To achieve this, KOSTAL adopted Red Hat’s enterprise-grade open source solutions to build a secure and reliable data platform. This platform not only enables better integration of existing systems, but also drives digitalization, improves production efficiency, and lays a solid foundation for AI applications. By introducing a consistent and scalable cloud-native architecture, KOSTAL has significantly enhanced system availability, accelerated service delivery, and advanced its digital transformation journey—contributing to the continued innovation of China’s automotive industry.

ERGO China Life Insurance, the first nationwide life insurance legal entity headquartered in Shandong, It was jointly established by Shandong State-owned Assets Investment Holdings Co., Ltd., ERGO Group AG (hereinafter referred to as “ERGO Group”), and ERGO Lebensversicherung AG. In recent years, ERGO China Life Insurance has leveraged the technological expertise of its German shareholder, ERGO Group, to advance its digital transformation. In 2024, it built an AI computing platform, deploying intelligent agents, smart contact assistants, AI-powered customer service, intelligent quality inspection, and AI coding assistants across sales, customer service, risk management, and software development, injecting intelligence into the entire business chain.

In 2025, the company launched a unified AI platform. Using Red Hat’s cloud-native solutions, it achieved intelligent GPU resource scheduling, centralization, and shared optimization, accelerating AI deployment across business units. With AI at its core, ERGO China Life Insurance is driving high-quality growth and building a digital operating model of “precision marketing – intelligent service – ecosystem collaboration,” while continuously enhancing the customer experience.

Procter & Gamble, founded in 1837, is one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies and a Fortune Global 500 company. In 1988, P&G established its first joint venture in China, Guangzhou P&G Co., Ltd., and entered the Chinese market with its first brand, Head & Shoulders, aiming to provide Chinese consumers with high-quality brands and services to make life better.

By adopting Red Hat Enterprise Linux, P&G has streamlined infrastructure management, reduced manual intervention, and created a more consistent, secure environment for application delivery. The result is faster system deployment, improved stability, and stronger operational support — enabling teams to focus on innovation and delivering enhanced digital experiences for customers. This automation-led transformation shows how P&G is harnessing open source to boost efficiency and support long-term business growth in the highly competitive consumer goods industry.

As one of the largest international banks operating in mainland China, HSBC Bank (China) Company Limited provides a wide range of financial services to individuals, businesses, and institutions. With nearly 100 branches across the country and a workforce of more than 95% local talent, HSBC China continues to strengthen its position as a trusted financial partner in the region.

To enhance security, stability, and responsiveness, the bank has embraced automation to modernize its development and operations. By reducing manual effort and streamlining processes, automation has enabled HSBC China to move faster, lower risks, and ensure more reliable services for customers. Supported by Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and its open source expertise, this initiative is helping HSBC China enhance operational efficiency while building a stronger, more agile foundation for future growth.

HKT is a technology, media, and telecommunication leader with more than 150 years of history. As the city’s true 5G provider, HKT connects businesses and people locally and globally. The Group’s end-to-end enterprise solutions make it a market leading digital transformation partner of choice for businesses, whereas its comprehensive connectivity and smart living offerings enrich people’s lives and cater for their diverse needs for work, entertainment, education, well-being, and even a sustainable low-carbon lifestyle. Together with its digital ventures which support digital economy development and help connect Hong Kong to the world as an international financial centre, HKT endeavours to contribute to smart city development and help the community tech forward.

To continue driving innovation and improve service delivery, HKT launched an initiative to expand automation internally. This initiative has accelerated service delivery, reduced downtime, and improved productivity. By embedding automation at the core of its operations, HKT is enhancing reliability, strengthening compliance, and empowering teams to deliver faster, more consistent experiences for customers across Hong Kong and beyond.

Hutchison Telecommunications (Hong Kong) Limited (“HTHK”), a leading mobile operator in Hong Kong, offers diverse and advanced mobile telecoms services under the 3 Hong Kong, 3SUPREME, SoSIM and MO+ brands, addressing different needs of the consumer market. HTHK is also dedicated to developing business and enterprise solutions under the 3Business brand in the corporate market spanning mobile commerce, information technology, smart city, the Internet of Things and big data. HTHK channels the latest technologies into innovations that set market trends and steer industry development. 

With rapid growth in mobile business and rising demand for agile, feature-rich services, HTHK launched its digital transformation strategy, a long-term and thoughtful roadmap to modernise IT and accelerate business transformation. During this journey, HTHK collaborated with Red Hat strategically to transform its legacy infrastructure into a cloud-native one-cloud architecture powered by Red Hat OpenShift. The new foundation improves service agility, enables faster application development, and consolidates diverse systems to reduce complexity. By shifting investment from legacy infrastructure to business innovation, HTHK is strengthening its competitiveness and laying the groundwork for future advancements in virtualisation and AI.

With over 140 million customers and a growing suite of digital banking services, Indian Bank Ltd. is one of India’s largest public sector banks. Recognising the need to modernise its legacy systems to meet the growing demands of scale, agility, and digital innovation, the bank built India’s first private cloud infrastructure by a public sector bank, powered by Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus.

This enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform now powers mission-critical applications including omnichannel banking, digital lending, financial inclusion, and cash management services. By adopting Red Hat OpenShift as its standard container platform, Indian Bank has streamlined development, enhanced security and governance, and accelerated the rollout of innovative digital services. This modern, cloud-native foundation creates a resilient, future-ready environment that positions the bank at the forefront of India’s banking modernisation.

Tata Tele Business Services (TTBS) is a leading provider of connectivity and communication solutions for businesses across India. With a portfolio spanning connectivity, cloud, security, and collaboration services, TTBS plays a pivotal role in powering digital transformation across industries including e-commerce, fintech, and manufacturing.

To support its vision of transformative connectivity and ensure flexibility across diverse technology ecosystems, TTBS adopted an open hybrid cloud approach powered by Red Hat’s enterprise solutions. This open, interoperable foundation enables seamless scalability, resilience, and agility – free from vendor lock-in. By standardising on open technologies, TTBS has created a unified platform that simplifies operations, accelerates service delivery, and strengthens its position as a trusted digital partner for businesses nationwide.

Unity Small Finance Bank (Unity Bank) is a new-age bank focused on delivering simple, secure, and accessible banking through technology. To expand its sales and marketing reach through digital channels, the bank sought a modern customer relationship management (CRM) platform that could be deployed rapidly, while avoiding vendor lock-in and infrastructure constraints.

With Red Hat’s open source solutions like Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Unity Bank built a flexible, scalable foundation that enables faster delivery of new digital solutions and seamless integration across systems. This open architecture has empowered the bank to reach more customers, enhance engagement, and accelerate innovation – supporting its vision of redefining banking for the digital age.

State Bank of India (SBI), India’s largest and most trusted financial institution, continues to lead the nation’s digital transformation journey. With over 52 crore customers and a global presence across 29 countries, the bank set out to modernise its digital channels to deliver faster, more seamless, and secure banking experiences. 

Supported by Red Hat open platforms - Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Ansible Automation platform, SBI’s digital modernization journey brought together applications such as retail internet banking, mobile, and branch portals on a scalable, cloud-native architecture. This open platform supports “market-first” digital features, enables rapid deployment of new services, and enhances system resilience and security. In parallel, SBI is modernising its Cash Management Product (CMP) on the same platform to enhance efficiency and deliver smarter, more configurable solutions for corporate and government clients – further cementing its leadership in digital banking.

PT Bussan Auto Finance (BAF), one of Indonesia’s leading multifinance companies and the exclusive financing partner for Yamaha motorcycles, offers a wide range of financial solutions including car, electronics, gadget, agricultural machinery, and Sharia-compliant financing. To meet the needs of a rapidly growing digital customer base, BAF set out to modernize its core applications, improve scalability, and enhance performance across its digital platforms.

BAF adopted Red Hat OpenShift to transition from a monolithic, virtual machine-based system to a modern microservices architecture. This transformation began with BAF Mobile, the company’s customer-facing app, and expanded to include BAF Kiosk, a self-service terminal for customers. Supported by disaster recovery backup and recovery environments, the new cloud-native architecture delivers high availability, improved resilience, and faster time to market for digital services. With a unified hybrid cloud infrastructure now in place, BAF has strengthened its ability to innovate, scale efficiently, and deliver a seamless experience across both online and offline channels, empowering customers nationwide with more accessible, reliable, and convenient financial services.

PT Pegadaian has long played a vital role in driving financial inclusion through its extensive network of more than 4,000 branches and 24 million customers across Indonesia. As part of its digital transformation journey, PT Pegadaian recognized the need to automate key IT operations to improve service quality, reduce manual workloads, and strengthen its growing digital ecosystem.

Through the implementation of Red Hat solutions, Pegadaian successfully streamlined daily IT operations and accelerated organizational efficiency. Automation — executed seamlessly through a centralized chat-based platform—has significantly reduced manual intervention and improved response times for various daily operation tasks, while also enhancing system monitoring and accelerating incident recovery. The result is faster, more reliable IT service delivery with minimal downtime, boosting both employee productivity and customer experience across the enterprise.

Hitachi built an internal AI platform in October 2024, using Red Hat OpenShift AI (OpenShift AI) to accelerate its company-wide digital transformation. This enterprise-wide, governed AI platform now serves as the keystone for more than 250 ongoing projects at Hitachi spanning both information technology (IT) and operations technology (OT) domains. OpenShift AI efficiently develops, operates, and deploys AI/ML models in a hybrid cloud environment. The platform has improved call center efficiency, accelerated development of paramount systems and fortified collaboration across the enterprise. With Red Hat's enterprise-grade support, proven reliability, and expert guidance, Hitachi can confidently drive its AI-driven digital transformation. Currently, the platform is being used for internal operations. However, Hitachi is positioning this success as the groundwork for exponential AI growth across its ecosystem. Additionally, Hitachi is exploring the possibility of leveraging Red Hat OpenShift AI externally for business development.

Rakuten Bank, Ltd., one of Japan's largest digital banks, is a proud member of the Rakuten Group, offering a diverse range of financial services. As a cornerstone of their IT strategy, Rakuten Bank has been driving multiple key initiatives. Through collaboration with Red Hat Consulting, we significantly enhanced our project momentum in areas such as future technology architecture planning, platform engineering, and the adoption of agile development methodologies. Red Hat's specialized support has been instrumental, enabling Rakuten Bank to establish a more flexible and efficient technology foundation. This collaboration has not only facilitated continuous review and improvement but has also directly contributed to the enhanced quality of their services.

JRA System Service Corporation (JRASS), a systems subsidiary of the Japan Racing Association (JRA), is responsible for developing, operating and maintaining various systems related to central horse racing. Red Hat OpenShift is used as the application platform for the official JRA website. Access to the official JRA website fluctuates significantly compared to weekdays, as it is concentrated on Saturdays and Sundays, when the central horse races are held. However, Red Hat OpenShift's auto-scaling function enables the flexible and efficient optimisation of resources according to demand, ensuring stable service provision. Containerisation with Red Hat OpenShift has also enhanced security and improved the speed of application delivery. JRASS has built a flexible and efficient architecture using Red Hat OpenShift's rich functionality, sophisticated GUI and low cost, as well as consulting support leveraging Red Hat's extensive enterprise-level knowledge. JRASS will continue to provide central horse racing fans with stable information by responding quickly and accurately to future changes in the business environment through the operating system.

Korea Financial Telecommunications & Clearings Institute (KFTC), a leading payment services provider serving banks, insurers, securities firms, and payment companies across Korea, plays a critical role in enabling secure and seamless financial transactions nationwide. To keep pace with the rapidly changing financial landscape and ensure its national financial network could respond with greater speed and flexibility, KFTC set out to modernize its legacy on-premise infrastructure.

The organization has since transformed its key service into a cloud-native, container-based architecture on Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, creating a more reliable and scalable foundation for essential services. This shift has streamlined operations, reduced reliance on legacy infrastructure, and enabled faster service delivery, helping KFTC drive digital transformation and hybrid cloud innovation while supporting the stability of Korea’s financial ecosystem.

The Human Resources Development Service of Korea (HRDK), a quasi-governmental institution under the Ministry of Employment and Labor, plays a central role in advancing vocational skills, lifelong learning, and national technical qualifications. To better serve employees, employers, training institutions, and government agencies, HRDK recognized the need to modernize its outdated systems and create a more user-centric, data-driven platform. Rising demand for detailed qualification data, coupled with security risks from aging infrastructure, accelerated the push toward digital transformation.

With Red Hat solutions, HRDK has built a modern, hybrid cloud-ready foundation that streamlines application processes, strengthens system reliability, and enhances security and compliance. The new platform enables faster, more seamless access to qualification services, while big data capabilities support personalized insights and feedback for learners and institutions. This transformation is not only restoring trust in national qualifications but also laying the groundwork for innovative, future-oriented public services that empower Korea’s workforce across every stage of their careers.

AFFIN Group, one of Malaysia’s leading financial institutions, provides a comprehensive range of financial products and services to retail, corporate, and Islamic banking customers across the country. With a large and complex IT infrastructure supporting its nationwide operations, the bank recognised the need to improve operational efficiency, reduce manual errors, and ensure consistent compliance through automation.
By adopting the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, AFFIN transformed its server patching, change tracking, and disaster recovery processes. What was once a time-consuming and error-prone manual operation is now fully automated—reducing patching time, minimising configuration errors, and improving overall system reliability. This helped to strengthen the bank’s security posture, reduce downtime, and improve service delivery to customers.
With automation driving consistency and speed, AFFIN has optimised IT costs and reallocated resources toward innovation and strategic growth. This transformation demonstrates how automation can empower financial institutions to move faster, operate more securely, and deliver better digital banking experiences at scale.

DBS Bank is Singapore’s largest bank and a leading financial services group in Asia, serving individuals, businesses, and institutional clients with a comprehensive suite of services. Having an early lead in its digital transformation journey, DBS Bank continues to push the boundaries of innovation to better meet the needs of its diverse customer base. 

DBS Bank embarked on a strategic initiative to re-platform its digital assets custodian operations onto Red Hat OpenShift, leveraging Red Hat’s emerging confidential containers This world-first deployment has created a more scalable, secure, and future-ready foundation for digital asset services, strengthening security, reducing operational risk, and accelerating the delivery of new services. By pioneering the use of advanced open source technologies, DBS Bank is setting a benchmark for responsible and innovative adoption of emerging tech in financial services.

The Digital and Intelligence Service (DIS), the fourth service of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), plays a critical role in defending Singapore in the digital domain and enabling the SAF to operate as a networked force against a wider spectrum of external threats. 

The DIS has identified cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) as critical enablers, and established the SAF C4 & Digitalisation Command (SAFC4DC) with Digitalisation as a mission. The SAFC4DC will accelerate and integrate efforts across the SAF’s digital technology stack to deliver end-to-end digitalisation outcomes. The DIS partners closely with the Defence Technology Community, and industry innovators such as Red Hat, to operationalise AI and cloud capabilities reliably and securely in constrained warfighting environments. Through such collaborations, the DIS unlocks digital enablers for the SAF to gain enhanced situational awareness and derive deeper operational insights for decision-making.

The Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) is a Thai, state-owned bank dedicated to supporting farmers and rural communities. To safeguard this critical role, the organization set out on a digital transformation journey to modernize its core systems and strengthen competitiveness. Facing inefficiencies from fragmented infrastructure and rising regulatory demands, the bank needed a more reliable, secure, and flexible foundation for innovation.

To build a more resilient and future-ready platform, BAAC turned to Red Hat OpenShift, replacing its legacy systems with a unified solution for containers and virtual machines. This new hybrid cloud infrastructure has reduced reliance on legacy systems, lowered costs, and strengthened security and compliance, while enabling faster delivery of new digital services. These improvements have helped BAAC enhance resilience and efficiency at scale, ensuring Thailand’s farmers and rural communities benefit from more stable, innovative, and accessible financial services.

As a leading financial institution in Thailand, Land and Houses Bank Public Company Limited (LH Bank) focuses on delivering retail, corporate, and SME banking services. In pursuit of its vision to be a modern, customer-centric bank, LH Bank sought to accelerate application development, improve digital experiences, and expand into new business segments, all while navigating limited IT resources and complex legacy systems. The bank needed a trusted technology partner to help modernize its applications and strengthen its infrastructure.

By adopting Red Hat OpenShift to modernize its flagship mobile banking applications, Profita and LHB You, LH Bank has transformed how it designs and delivers customer services, making apps more user-friendly, feature-rich, and scalable. The bank has since extended OpenShift to internal systems, enabling agile development and improved resource efficiency, while ensuring enterprise-grade security and reliability. This holistic approach has boosted productivity, sped up time to market, and reinforced LH Bank’s ability to offer secure, innovative digital experiences that drive growth and meet the evolving needs of customers across Thailand.

Vietnam Prosperity Joint-Stock Commercial Bank (VPBank), one of Vietnam’s leading financial institutions, has been a key driver of the country’s economic growth for over three decades. As part of its long-term digital transformation strategy, VPBank sought to modernize its core banking infrastructure to deliver faster, more reliable, and scalable services that meet growing customer and business demands.
To achieve this, VPBank became the first bank in ASEAN to deploy its Temenos T24 core banking system on Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, establishing a highly available, enterprise-grade cloud platform. The migration enables the bank to automate deployment processes, enhance system flexibility, and improve performance while maintaining compliance and stability. With its new platform, VPBank can now scale efficiently, reduce infrastructure costs, and accelerate its five-year growth plan to become one of the largest and most technologically advanced banks in Vietnam and Asia.

LINE Bank Taiwan Limited, the nation’s leading digital-only bank, was founded with a bold mission to deliver secure, convenient, and fully digital banking services to customers. Entirely powered by 24/7 online services, and launching without a branch network required the bank to establish trust quickly and capture market share by building a reliable and scalable digital-native foundation, LINE Bank currently has more than 2.1 million customers in Taiwan.

To achieve this, LINE Bank adopted Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to power its core banking infrastructure. This foundation has cut deployment times from hours to under 15 minutes. It also helps the bank meet strict regulatory and security requirements, while enabling operations across multiple cloud environments.

With this platform in place, LINE Bank has since accelerated time to market, increased developer productivity by 25%, and enhanced customer experiences through always-on services and faster innovation. By combining operating system standardization, application development and management, and automation, the bank is setting a new benchmark for digital banking in Taiwan – positioning LINE Bank for continued growth in an increasingly digital era.

Amway Taiwan, a leading brand in the direct selling industry, has been actively driving cloud innovation and demonstrating significant impact across the retail and e-commerce sectors. By building a comprehensive digital ecosystem on AWS, Amway has enhanced business resilience and has secured its position among the top five AWS customers in Taiwan. However, rapid service growth led to escalating cloud costs and highlighted the need to modernize its legacy on-premises systems. To stay competitive in a fast-changing retail landscape, Amway set out to create a more agile, cost-efficient, and scalable infrastructure.

By adopting Red Hat OpenShift, Amway rebuilt its on-premises container platform while retaining the flexibility of a hybrid cloud. The platform was designed with high availability, observability, governance, and security at its core, enabling the company to seamlessly integrate new and existing services. With this transformation, Amway has not only reduced reliance on expensive cloud resources but also empowered its development teams to innovate faster and deliver reliable, modern digital experiences to its customers.