GCG and Squirro Introduces AI-Driven Insights and Enterprise Search to the Region
Squirro is an enterprise-grade Generative AI platform built to extract insight and value from fragmented, large-scale organisational knowledge. It achieves this by leveraging a powerful combination of Generative AI-driven enterprise search, knowledge graphs, and conversational AI, all built on a modern Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture. This allows users to search, chat with, and uncover insights from their enterprise data, delivering precise, context-aware results grounded in their own organisational knowledge.
Squirro was named as an Emerging Leader in the 2025 Gartner Innovation Guide for Generative AI Technologies in the following two categories: Generative AI Engineering & AI Knowledge Management Apps/General Productivity Squirro has been acknowledged by Gartner as a Leader in the 2025 Emerging Market Quadrants for both 'AI Knowledge Management & General Productivity Platforms', as well as 'AI Engineering'.
Through this partnership, GCG Enterprise Solutions adds Squirro's cutting-edge Generative AI platform to its portfolio, offering clients a context-aware, secure, and scalable solution that drives AI-driven decision-making across sectors including finance, government, utilities, and manufacturing.
Speaking about the new tie-up, Bernd Schopp, Chief Partnership Officer at Squirro, stated that 'Our partnership with GCG Enterprise Solutions is aimed at delivering significant value to clients by transforming how knowledge is discovered, consumed, and acted upon. Squirro's technology unifies data across silos, providing a 360° contextual view of operations, customers, and risks. Clients benefit from increased productivity and innovation through Generative AI-powered dashboards, smart alerts, and enterprise-grade generative AI capabilities. Importantly, the solution ensures secure and compliant access to insights, fully aligned with regional data protection and governance standards'.
Further elaborating on the strategic capabilities which Squirro can deliver, Walid Al Awadi, Head of Digital Transformation at GCG Enterprise Solutions, stated that 'Partnering with Squirro aligns seamlessly with our vision to lead digital transformation in the region. This collaboration enhances our generative AI offerings, further strengthening our position in Knowledge Management, Compliance, and Decision Intelligence. Squirro's platform also complements our ecosystem with native integrations to Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft 365, and legacy systems, supporting complex transformation mandates in government modernisation, financial services, and national data strategy initiatives.'
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