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The Woori Bank deal applies Samsung SDS’s enterprise AI playbook

• Woori Bank plans to build its AI agents on FabriX, Samsung SDS’s platform that links generative AI models with a company’s internal systems and data 1.
• Samsung SDS has also rolled out FabriX for other financial customers such as KB Financial Group (a South Korean financial services group), where it built agents for asset management plus corporate financial services 2.
• Samsung SDS is taking a broad approach that runs from infrastructure through finished tools, pitching itself as an end-to-end AI transformation partner rather than only a software vendor 2.
• In manufacturing, a maintenance pilot cut technicians’ search time by 43.9% 3.

Enterprise AI deals coincide with a broader infrastructure buildout

• Samsung SDS says it will put its roughly 6.4 trillion won (US$4.7 billion) cash reserves toward growth spending, with AI and cloud computing as priorities 4.
• It is also adding AI data center capacity, including a 60 MW facility in Gumi (a city in South Korea) that it positions as the base for its GPU-as-a-Service (on-demand access to graphics processing units for AI workloads) business 5.
• Samsung SDS sits in a consortium (a group of companies bidding together) named the preferred bidder for the government’s National AI Computing Center project, which the government frames as backing a “sovereign AI” model in South Korea 5.
• System integrators (IT services firms that connect and run large enterprise systems), once seen as back-office IT support, are shifting toward roles as providers of industrial intelligence plus national AI infrastructure 6.