Oh, how quickly things change… It’s May, 2025, and the recent rise of global economic uncertainty isn’t just making daily headlines, it’s shaping decisions in corporate boardrooms on all four corners of the globe. Look no further than McKinsey’s latest Global Economic Outlook Survey, which found that trade policy has matched geopolitics in its potential to disrupt the economy.
The numbers bear it out: With US treasury 10-year yield spreads stuck below or near zero percent, market volatility is impossible to ignore.
Meanwhile, leaders across sectors – from banking and financial services to manufacturing – are facing growing pressure: tightening regulatory demands, legacy systems dragging down efficiency, rising customer expectations, and the constant mandate to innovate, innovate, innovate – all without inflating costs.
Seeking Certainty Amid Economic Turbulence
In this environment, cost-optimization, agility, and resilience loom large in conversations with business executives looking for ways to pilot their organizations through the turbulence. The more unpredictable external forces become, the more valuable one scarce asset becomes: control.
Enterprise-grade generative AI has emerged as a way to meet these organizational challenges head-on. But, as the Chief Information Security Officer at JP Morgan Chase recently cautioned in an open letter to third party suppliers, unless security is prioritized over rushing out new features, the rapid adoption of new SaaS technologies can create vulnerabilities that could ultimately weaken the global economic system.
In other words, what’s needed are AI solutions that, like the Squirro Enterprise GenAI Platform, have demonstrated that they are reliable, secure, and capable of scaling – not only in terms of data but also across business functions – while giving organizations full control over their data, vendors, and budgets. For those looking to future-proof their operations without gambling on untested technologies, the path forward is already clear.
The Role of Enterprise GenAI
Over the past years, enterprise GenAI has outgrown the hype, quietly proving its capability to make a real-world impact in a broad range of industries and use cases.
There's a growing consensus that Enterprise GenAI platforms can now:
- Go beyond pilot projects and proof of concept trials, scaling deployments to production and across teams and functions.
- Automate low-value tasks, accurately and reliably without compromising on data privacy and security, freeing internal teams for strategic tasks and accelerating innovation.
- Transform unstructured enterprise knowledge, stored across various data repositories, into valuable insights quickly enough to inform real-time decisions.
- Enable predictable investments with predictable return on investment, no endless services engagements or runaway project fees.
What Proven Success Looks Like
Saving Hours in Minutes in Financial Services
A leading multinational bank serving individuals, businesses, and institutions across various Southeast Asia and Greater China deployed the Squirro Enterprise GenAI Platform to implement an internal knowledge sharing platform that would serve as a single source of truth, improving the operational efficiency of their technical teams.
At the bank, GenAI adoption helped reduce client meeting preparation time from 60 minutes to just three through automatically generated insights, freeing teams from tedious tasks, ultimately leading to higher satisfaction and more effective problem-solving. These time savings led to cost reductions and enhanced revenue generation by allowing for greater focus on new opportunities.
For more, download our case study on AI in banking.
Speeding Up Investment Analysis in Development Finance
A development bank financing private sector projects in Latin America used the Squirro Enterprise GenAI Platform to automate the generation of various sections of their investment proposals. Legacy enterprise search technology, scattered data, and manual processes were limiting the bank’s ability to respond to time-sensitive investment opportunities.
With GenAI, the development bank significantly improved its operational efficiency by accelerating investment analysis, due diligence, and proposal writing, leading to a faster turnaround time for time-sensitive investment opportunities. This increase in efficiency and the enhanced quality of investment proposals directly contributed to increased revenue generation through a higher volume of closed deals and reduced operational costs per deal.
Get the full story by downloading our case study on transforming investment analysis with Squirro.
Future-Proofing With Peace of Mind
In these times of uncertainty, versatility, scalability, and security have become essential pillars of resilient, enterprise-grade generative AI. These capabilities not only future-proof operations but also provide peace of mind. Seamless data integration across the organization unlocks the full spectrum of corporate intelligence – accelerating R&D, uncovering hidden insights, and fueling innovation.
Enterprise knowledge graphs bring deterministic accuracy, while proven scalability ensures these benefits reach across departments, laying the foundation for sustained growth and operational resilience. Workflow automation, powered by GenAI, reduces workloads by streamlining repetitive processes and freeing up human capital for higher-value initiatives.
Strict access controls and ISO 27001-compliant security safeguard sensitive information, ensuring that users only see what they are authorized to access. Meanwhile, the freedom to change LLMs lets organizations adapt as AI models evolve, avoiding vendor lock-in. Finally, flexible deployment options – cloud, on-premises, or hybrid – allow businesses to meet industry-specific data residency requirements and retain control over their AI infrastructure.
The Time to Act is Now
GenAI is no longer just nice to have. It’s become an essential shield against uncertainty and a critically important engine for future growth.
In turbulent times, the competitive advantage goes to those who move first, making judicious choices that transform the uncertainty into a catalyst to strengthen operations, sharpen customer engagement, and capture new opportunities. Smart investment in GenAI today means greater resilience, faster decision making, and more control. It’s a source of peace of mind when everything else feels unpredictable.
The window for gaining this edge is closing fast. Download our recent white paper, "Transform Banking & Financial Services with Enterprise GenAI," to learn how to transform banking and financial services with secure, scalable, and highly accurate enterprise GenAI that has proven itself in the most demanding economic sectors.
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