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Volatility is inevitable, says Martin Man, Partner Manager, DX EMEA at Progress, But with the right mindset and tech stack, it can be a catalyst for building more resilient, customer-centric strategies. How do teams protect data-driven marketing strategies in an evolving privacy landscape? Yolande D'Mello less than a minute ago
Yolande is a journalist with more than 10 years of experience covering emerging technology and business. She has tracked digital disruption and its impact on enterprise across the US and Middle East.
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Locala's omnichannel advertising platform leverages granular insights and cutting-edge AI to help marketers plan, activate, and measure campaigns that are personalised to the local consumer. It specialises in transforming complex mobility and consumer data into actionable audience insights, fueling advanced media strategies.
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Blue Prism is a global software provider, offering ROM 2, an intelligent automation implementation methodology that empowers teams to scale their digital workflow. One of its use cases is sales and marketing solutions, which is powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms.
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Pega is a combined business process management and robotic process automation (RPA) platform that comes with workforce analytics features. It offers a wide variety of tools such as Pega Email Bot to automate repetitive tasks with personalised customer replies at scale.
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EdgeVerve, a subsidiary of India-based IT company Infosys Technologies, offers RPA software for major enterprise companies. Its AssistEdge Robotic Process Automation provides machine learning and AI tools called Infosys Nia. Its AssistEdge RPA enables global marketing and distribution companies to automate 970+ manual tasks at scale.
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Clevertap is a comprehensive platform that allows global marketers to get unified customer data analytics and omnichannel engagement in one place.
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UseResponse is a fully customisable customer support and feedback software, helping companies to better understand the needs of their customers. It provides the capabilities of multichannel ticketing, live chat with messengers aggregator, chatbot, feedback community portal, and knowledge base.
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Survicate is a drag-and-drop, multichannel survey builder, helping brands effortlessly collect and analyse customer feedback. It offers 23+ one-click, native integrations, enabling advertisers and marketers to create follow-up campaigns based on real-time customer feedback.
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SAP Sales Cloud comes with end-to-end solutions and offers AI-fueled insights for understanding customers' preferences. It helps build customer profiles at scale. It also empowers users to automatically manage contact information, which streamlines clients' journeys.
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Freshsales by Freshworks is an AI-powered software that streamlines the sales cycle by automating mundane tasks and personalising customer engagement. It generates quality leads and nurtures relationships by understanding visitor intent in real-time.
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Developed for midsize enterprises and large organisations, Creatio offers end-to-end CRM software solutions, allowing users to manage sales, marketing, and services all in one place. For marketing professionals, it provides Marketing Creatio, an omnichannel marketing platform to orchestrate customer journeys and accelerate lead-to-revenue.
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Salesforce is a global technology provider, offering low code/no-code, AI-powered capabilities. Marketers and advertisers can harness its technologies for multiple use cases like B2B strategies, cross-channel personalisation, real-time analytics, and more.
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SAS offers embedded CDP capabilities, letting marketers unify customer data, understand digital activity and enable analytically driven, real-time activation. It comes with data activation facility that enables marketers to pull only the data they want, further reducing data migration costs.
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Blueshift is a scalable CDP platform that offers AI-driven capabilities for clubbing real-time events with related data from various sources. It streamlines these insights into unified customer profiles, enabling marketers to automatically personalise their targeting goals.
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Wotnot is a genAI-powered , no-code chatbot platform, helping the sales and marketing team to engage with visitors on their website via personalised conversations, catering to their lead-generation goals. It offers platform-based solutions, such as AI Studio, a GPT chatbot builder, and an analytics dashboard.
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Aisera is a generative AI platform provider that offers AI Copilot, AiseraGPT, and AiseraLLM for various domains. With Aisera, enterprises can accelerate the development of their LLMs or purchase ready-to-use generative AI solutions with pre-trained LLMs using customer data to reduce hallucinations.
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Deliotte offers Ncyte, an all-in-one analytics solution. Utilising patented algorithms, proprietary data models and predictive analytics, Ncyte delivers actionable insights for various marketing functions. With Nycte, data and marketing teams can pre-define events such as attributed campaign performance to evaluate their efforts with live notifications.
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CleverTap is a customer engagement and retention platform that offers the functionality to integrate app analytics and marketing. Powered by TesseractDB, a purpose-built database for engagement & retention, it combines the features of audience analytics, omnichannel engagement, and product A/B testing for marketing functions.
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Oracle Advertising and Customer Experience (CX), lets advertisers personalise their campaigns. Its flagship product, Oracle Moat, a comprehensive analytics and measurement platform, provides a suite of solutions across marketing and ad intelligence. Moat helps reach prospective customers, capture consumer attention, and measure the outcomes to unlock business potential.
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Meta Ads is a social media advertising platform leveraging the user base from Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp to deliver personalised ads at scale. It offers Meta Business Suite and Meta Business Manager for managing and tracking ad performance. Utilising its AI-powered tools, advertisers can partially or fully automate with complete control over their ads.
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WebEngage is an end-to-end customer data platform, helping brands to strategise their customer engagement and retention functions. It supports third-party integration for use cases including customer segmentation, omnichannel engagement, and survey & feedback.
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ServiceNow features Robotic Process Automation Hub (RPA Hub), a scalable genAI-powered platform for orchestrating and managing a robotic workforce to execute various business processes. Its workflow automation enables tasks like lead management and campaign execution and supports integration with popular marketing tools to streamline processes.
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Tealium is a comprehesive customer data platform helping brands orchestrate and manage their data activation from a marketing standpoint. Its AudienceStream CDP functionality enables marketers to create custom campaigns via 1300+ integration options for several use cases.
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Qualaroo is a saas-based online survey creator offering Qualaroo Nudge, a proprietary technology for uploading custom properties for airtight targeting. It enables marketers to 'nudge' when user clicks on a page element, helping them to target visitors on their real-time activity.
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Zendesk is a Danish-American company that offers software-as-a-service products with the capabilities of omnichannel integrations. Its omnichannel messaging platform enables sales and marketing teams to easily track and consolidate customer tickets from various sources, ensuring enhanced customer experiences.
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WebEngage is an all-in-one marketing platform that integrates omnichannel engagement with live analytics features. It offers AI/ML-driven product recommendations engine that enables marketers to boost conversion for all channels, including the web and mobile apps.
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Sprinklr is a comprehensive enterprise software company offering omnichannel support capabilities for all customer-focused marketing functions. It provides no-code, easy-to-build API integrations to access real-time customer data from multiple sources — such as CRM, CDP and ecommerce platforms.
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SAP provides omnichannel marketing capabilities through its flagship product: SAP Emarsys. By accessing its purpose-built reports, teams can determine the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns, segments, and channels in achieving sales goals. Its B2B account engagement features let brands deliver predictable and personalised marketing-led B2B insights at scale.
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MoEngage is a global AI-driven marketing platform that enables brands to orchestrate omnichannel campaigns from a single intuitive interface. Utilising MoEngage's User Path Analysis capabilities, marketing teams can target customers across 10+ channels, depending on their purchase behaviour.
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Intuit Mailchimp is an AI-powered omnichannel platform that offers email and marketing automation functions. With its customised pre-built audience segments, marketers can scale their campaigns based on individual contacts' demographic information and shopping behaviour.
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Hubspot is a cloud-based, scalable customer platform that offers various marketing automation solutions with omnichannel support capabilities. It enables marketers to create omnichannel campaigns to connect and interact with customers across multiple channels in real-time.
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Bloomreach is an all-inclusive marketing automation platform that comes with omnichannel orchestration supports for various use cases, such as marketing campaign personalisation, and headless CMS commerce platform experience.
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Agillic specialises in offering global brands a comprehensive Omnichannel Marketing Automation Platform that enables them to create personalised marketing campaigns. Its multichannel marketing capabilities support multiple integrations, such as Playable and Sleeknote for lead generation, Zapier for automating routine processes, among others.
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Adobe Experience Cloud features Adobe Campaign, enabling marketers to synchronise their customer data from various channels for omnichannel marketing. By leveraging its omnichannel integration with Adobe Journey Optimiser, brands can build multi-step journeys, campaigns, and personalised real-time moments that follow their customers across channels.
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ActiveCampaign is an intelligent multichannel marketing automation platform that enables marketers to seamlessly connect campaigns across the channels that matter most to them. It helps enterprises streamline personalised marketing, transactional emails, and one-to-one CRM interactions throughout the customer lifecycle.
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UiPath offers a comprehensive AI-powered robotic automation platform, enabling marketers to streamline recurring functions, such as lead automation and customer engagement. Utilising its capabilities, marketers can personalise and automate customer interactions, depending on their needs and preferences.
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SAP is a composable marketing automation technology provider, offering SAP Intelligent RPA solutions to automate repetitive, rules-based business processes, including marketing and sales. Using its tech stack, marketers can automatically extract product data from manufacturers' websites, update online inventory and import website and email sales.
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Microsoft offers Power Automate, a low-code and AI-powered RPA software that helps marketers streamline tasks like lead management, email campaigns, social media management, data analysis, content publishing, and customer feedback. Leveraging its capabilities, businesses can automate repetitive tasks, such as lead capture and email marketing workflows.
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IBM offers AI-powered Robotic Process Automation capabilities for CRM and marketing functions. It enables users to automate workflows with integrated OCR and intelligent chatbots, distribute work across multiple bots without human interventions and manage emails via low-code authoring tools.
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Hyland offers an AI-powered comprehensive robotic automation software suite, enabling marketers' teams to automate their campaigns. Its Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology allows businesses to automate repetitive marketing functions, such as execution of targeted and personalised strategies in near real-time.
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Datamatics is an intelligent automation platform, offering TruBot RPA designer, a low-code bot design tool for marketing teams to create customised bots quickly. It provides 500 pre-built components, enabling low-code design and rapid deployment capabilities with drag-and-drop options.
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Automation Anywhere offers Automation Success Platform powered by Vertex AI, enabling enterprises to develop a cloud-based digital workforce at scale. Leveraging its bots, ML, and AI technologies, marketers can automate their marketing and sales processes. One of its popular offerings is Automation Co-Pilot, a genAI-powered assistant that empowers businesses to create and summarise content.
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Appian is a global technology provider, delivering end-to-end process automation with RPA, AI, IDP and API integrations. Utilising the readily available APIs of this low-code platform, teams can create a series of connected digital business applications including customer management and marketing.
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Powered by Zoho Corporation, Zoho Analytics enables marketers to track all critical metrics in a single platform to enhance marketing outcomes. The company offers 75 pre-built data visualisation reports and dashboards on marketing performance for collaborative analysis. With its AI-powered assistant, marketers can generate automated insights, predict future trends, and configure smart alerts.
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Semrush is an online visibility management and content marketing SaaS platform, offering marketing analytics tools to global businesses. Its open-source analytical tools include Market Explorer and Traffic Analytics for understanding market trends and website traffic respectively.
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Nielsen is a global audience insights, data and analytics solution provider, helping marketers measure what people listen to and watch. It offers a comprehensive, AI-powered Nielsen Marketing Cloud platform with sub-products such as Audience Segments, Scarborough, and Advanced Audiences to understand audiences for different targeting initiatives.
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MoEngage is a full-stack marketing automation platform, offering consumer insights and analytics solutions for marketers to understand customer LTV. With MoEngage Analytics, they can measure user engagement, spot behavioural patterns, and act on retention to prevent app uninstalls.
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Microsoft Clarity is a behavioural analysis tool that helps marketers understand user interaction with their website. It supports features like Session recordings, Heatmaps, and ML insights in real time. Processing more than a petabyte of data from over 100 million users per month, Clarity accommodates limitless traffic for various marketing measurements at scale.
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Powered by AI-led insights, Merkle offers scalable marketing analytics and CX technology solutions, helping brands to optimise their campaigns. Some of its flagship solutions are Measurement & Media analytics, Consumer & Experience insights, and Product & Market intelligence.
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Hubspot offers marketing analytics and dashboard software, enabling businesses to make data-backed decisions for use cases, such as revenue generation, site analytics and detailed reporting. Leveraging the capabilities of its multi-touch revenue attribution model, marketers can monitor real-time website traffic via unique tracking codes.
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Google Analytics is an open-source analytics tool by Google, enabling marketing teams within organisations to better understand their customers via valuable insights. Consequently, businesses can use those insights to take action, such as website improvement and tailored audience list creation.
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Adverity is an integrated data analytics platform, enabling marketers to automate their customer's data integration and visualisation functions. It offers 600+ pre-built data connectors to popular marketing platforms, social media networks, SEO tools, and marketing automation solutions. The platform also provides pre-build dashboards to generate tailored reports.
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Adobe Experience Cloud offers Adobe Analytics and Adobe Target within its analytics tools solutions, enabling marketers to execute in-depth analysis of their customer data. Adobe Analytics allows the sales and marketing teams to mix, match, and analyse data from any digital point in the customer journey.
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Ahrefs features a suite of analytics tools under its Ahref Enterprise offering. It offers API and Looker Studio connectors, enabling marketing teams to elevate their SEO strategy with enterprise-grade and insights. Some of the criteria for its API endpoints include Backlinks, Organic & Paid Traffic, SERPs, Website health score and more.
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StackAdapt is a multi-channel programmatic advertising platform, enabling digital marketers to customise their strategy. It offers open and flexible DSP (Digital Signal Processing) capabilities for executing tailored ad campaigns. Furthermore, its ad previewer lets marketing teams preview video, display and native ads on desktop or mobile across 500+ publishers, covering 23 verticals.
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Rakuten is a global affiliate ad technology company, enabling advertisers to optimise their marketing strategies with data-driven insights. It offers AI-powered forecasting and benchmarking capabilities and dynamic multi-touch commissioning tools, allowing advertisers to customise their campaigns. It also supports first-party data collection integrations for both B2B and B2C marketers.
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Nielsen offers Nielsen Ad Intel, a cross-platform advertising intelligence platform with actionable insights to identify prospects, analyse brand strategies and learn from past advertising campaigns. It offers various advertising intelligence features such as ad spend monitoring, competitive benchmarking, global competitive insights and expert data harmonisation.
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Magnite is an independent sell-side advertising technology provider, enabling publishers to monetise their content across all screens and formats. It offers Magnite Streaming, a singular supply-side platform that merges technology from the Magnite CTV and SpotX platforms. Utilising this functionality, marketers can identify their potential audiences to restructure their targeting strategies.
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IBM offers a comprehensive suite of Watson Advertising to agencies and marketers. With Watson Advertising's AI-powered assistant, advertisers can customise their advertisements, based on real-time ad results. It also supports functionalities of cookieless advertising, ad fraud management and brand safety measurements.
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Google features a comprehensive list of AI-powered Ad tools under its Google Ads offering. Some of its popular tools include Keywords Planner, Ads Editor, Reach Planner, Ads Mobile App, Insights Finder, Ads API, and Recommendations Page. Additionally, it offers Google AdMob to help businesses plan their in-app revenue generation strategy.
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Criteo is an all-in-one connected commerce media platform, enabling marketers and agencies to scale their digital and physical assets. Leveraging the capabilities of its AI-powered technology, brands can develop strategies for intent-based product recommendations, multi-prolonged accessibility, contextual advertising, and more.
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Basis Tecnologies (formerly known as Centro), is a programmatic advertising platform, offering ad management tools for search, social and site direct via a single interface. Its flagship products are Basis Assistant and Basis Automate+. Basis Assistant is a Chrome extension, connecting 20+ platforms and tools, and Basis Automate+ is a digital advertising automation tool for simplifying campaign process.
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AppsFlyer is a mobile attribution company, helping mobile advertisers to identify their ad network. It offers a measurement suite, giving app marketers full visibility into their customer journeys while preserving their privacy. Utilising its AI-powered Creative Optimisation platform, marketers can formulate their creative strategy.
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Adtriba is a cross-channel digital marketing management platform based on data-driven attribution modelling. Its solutions include Adtriba Triangulation, enabling advertisers to witness the integration of diverse measurement methods, such as Marketing Mix Modelling (MMM), Multi-Touch Attribution (MTA) and Incrementality Testing.
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Adobe Experience Cloud offers connected advertising solutions with its natively integrated Adobe Advertising platform. Its consultancy-based reporting options come with AI-powered optimisation features, helping advertisers analyse their ad performance via 200+ measurement metrics. Utilising its connected TV (CTV) and search, social, and commerce tools, marketers can optimise their customer acquisition strategy.
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Yellow.ai specialises in Conversational AI, generating autonomous conversations that appear human-like. These conversations form the foundation of brand engagement. Their AI-powered, no-code Dynamic Automation Platform manages around two billion conversations from a multitude of channels in numerous languages.
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Sprinklr offers a comprehensive suite of 250+ AI-intent bot templates for various industry verticals to accelerate bot development. Its specialised AI and compliant rule engine enables marketers to modify and automate their promotional campaigns for better engagement via suggestion-based personalised bots.
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Meta's new class of generative AI features and creative tools allow users to create and share custom stickers or update the visual style of their photos with a simple text prompt. They can also chat with 28 different AIs and get unique perspectives on topics like travel, games and food.
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Kore.ai is a UI-based platform that allows marketers to create a chatbot quickly and deploy it easily on multiple channels. Leveraging the capabilities of its conversational builder, enterprises can build the Dialogflow using dialogue messages. Some of its popular offerings include XO: Experience Optimisation and GALE(Beta).
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IBM watsonx Assistant is an interactive virtual agent that utilises natural language and AI, enabling users to set it up on their app and website. It offers fast and accurate responses to customers, enhancing their overall experience and satisfaction with its adaptive learning capabilities.
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Haptik helps enterprises manage their customer lifecycle with generative AI-powered conversational solutions to boost marketing and sales. It offers Contakt and Interakt to enhance overall CX, where Interakt enables marketers to send hyper-targeted and personalised campaigns to drive customers to take action on WhatsApp.
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Dialogflow is an all-in-one platform for developing chatbots, voice bots, and virtual agents using natural language understanding and Google AI. It helps marketing teams create conversational agents that can handle common customer requests and issues, such as FAQs, and order status at scale.
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Dialpad is a fully integrated unified conversation intelligence platform that utilises ongoing ML(Machine Learning) algorithms and does not require coding to configure a chatbot. It offers real-time insights and tips, helping marketing teams customise their approach for every customer.
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Cognigy.AI is a low code-no code, enterprise-grade generative AI platform offering readily available LLMs for CX transformations. Its omnichannel reporting and analytics suite for marketing enables organisations to streamline their customer journeys.
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boost.ai is a global conversational AI technology provider optimised for operational efficiency at scale. It offers self-learning AI capabilities that emphasise Natural Language Understanding (NLU) along with intent suggestions.
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Avaamo is an all-in-one conversational AI platform for enterprises offering a suite of industry-specific skills developed to automate and resolve common use cases. It offers Outreach, which enables marketers to educate and engage with customers across existing touchpoints through proactive and personalised communication.
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Amazon Lex offers fully managed conversational AI interfaces with advanced natural language models to design, build, test, and deploy conversational interfaces in applications. It enables sales and marketing teams to automate user tasks in their applications like the CRM and across any digital channel.
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Zendesk is an AI-powered customer feedback software provider, offering customer satisfaction (CSAT) software to businesses across multiple industries. Its marketplace offers 1600+ apps and integrations, enabling marketers to create a complete customer feedback system.
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UserVoice provides product feedback management software for SaaS businesses. Its UserVoice Validation tool delivers actionable user insights to inform roadmap strategy. From testing ideas to ensuring satisfaction with released features, it helps research and marketing teams gather quick user feedback throughout the entire product lifecycle.
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Twilio provides integrated Mindful Feedback functionality within its Flex offering, enabling marketers to automatically take action based on real-time customer feedback. It automatically collects customer feedback after Flex interactions by capturing feedback over post-call voice IVR, outbound voice IVR, conversational SMS, Web SMS, email, and web surveys.
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Trustpilot offers ML and AI-powered feedback management tools, helping marketers build trust and loyalty through customer reviews. Its AI-driven Review Insights tool enables marketers to identify growth areas from negative feedback, whereas its Image Generator tool lets them enhance social media engagement.
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Survey Monkey is a global online survey and forms tech stack provider, offering AI-fueled market research solutions to businesses. Its enterprise feedback management program provides 250+ templates with the capabilities of customisation, allowing organisations to build tailored survey forms.
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Sprinklr is a unified customer experience platform (CXM), offering AI-powered feedback management capabilities with its flagship product: Sprinklr Surveys. It integrates solicited customer feedback with unified-CXM data, enabling brands to derive meaningful, actionable insights. Utilising its genAI-powered survey builder, marketers can create conversational surveys to streamline their NPS strategies.
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Salesforce is a comprehensive customer-oriented technology provider offering a feedback management suite. Salesforce's survey responses help marketers create personalised surveys based on their existing customers' data. Some of the supported applications of its feedback management platform are genAI-powered survey form development and sentiment-insights-based survey collections.
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QuestionPro is an online feedback software provider, offering ready-made survey templates to businesses across 40+ countries. Leveraging the capabilities of its customer satisfaction templates, advertisers and marketers can create and gather tailored questions.
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Qualtrics is an all-in-one customer experience solution provider, offering website & app feedback tools for organisations to collect customer feedback efficiently. Its digital experience analytics capabilities combined with DXA integrations, bring together verbal and behavioural data for in-depth analysis of user feedback.
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HubSpot is a one-stop marketing platform, providing customer feedback software under its Service Hub offerings. Its pre-built APIs include net promote score (NPS), customer effort score (CES), and customer satisfaction (CSAT) surveys, allowing marketers to strengthen their customer loyalty strategy.
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Medallia is a comprehensive platform, enabling marketers to capture feedback from all customer touch points. Some of its popular feedback management software capabilities include Sense360 for analysing consumer spending, Medallia Video to automatically extract meaningful insights from customer's feedbacks and Agile Research for creating branded surveys in real-time.
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Zeotap lets brands integrate, unify, segment and orchestrate customer data, fostering a cookieless future. It offers a 'Non-Customer Entity Data' feature that helps marketers to integrate both customer and non-customer entity data.
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Twilio provides, Twilio Segment, an AI-powered CDP, enabling marketers to streamline their personalised customer engagement journeys. It brings together clean, consented customer data for real-time insights with 450+ pre-built connectors.
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Syntasa provides data-ready CDP capabilities, equipping marketers with essential tools to prepare their customer data. It offers real-time sentiment analytics capabilities, helping enterprises derive behavioural insights from unified user profiles to foster hyper-personalised experiences.
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SAP is a company-wide customer data management platform, helping marketers improve engagement, conversion, and retention. It offers a genAI-powered data model, enabling enterprises to unify their B2B and B2C customers' profiles to reach their personalisation goals.
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Oracle is a global database management company, providing CDP solutions, under its flagship product: Oracle Unity. Its AI-powered models enable marketers to create hyper-personsalised campaigns with predictive insights by streamlining real-time customer data from heterogeneous sources.
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Growthloop is a composable CDP platform, allowing marketing and sales team to action their data at scale. It offers GrowthLoop Audience Builder, enabling marketers to initiate their lead generation functions.
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Adobe Experience Cloud offers a real-time CDP, letting users create high-value audience segments for B2C and B2B use cases across their marketing funnel. It follows a cookieless marketing approach to automatically unify customer data across various online and offline channels in real-time.
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ActionIQ is a composable CDP platform that offers audience segmentation, acquisition marketing, and Customer 360 capabilities. It integrates analytical tools, enabling marketers to collect and analyse their first-party customer data at scale.
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Zoho CRM leverages automation and comprehensive analytics to empower any sales team, fostering stronger customer loyalty. Ideal for both small businesses and enterprises, this software enables enhanced productivity and tailored solutions through predictive intelligence.
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Zendesk offers Zendesk Sell, an easy-to-deploy CRM platform that is simple to deploy and navigate, catering to businesses of any scale. Its mobile-friendly Sell app has the functionalities of geolocation, helping sales and marketing teams. Offering an all-in-one CRM platform, organisations can implement use cases like prospecting, engagement, lead generation and communication capabilities.
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SugarCRM is a global CRM software provider, helping marketing, sales, and service teams improve efficiency through automation, data, and intelligence in near real-time. It offers Sugar Market, an all-in-one marketing automation platform that helps marketers to automate their campaign with higher ROI.
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Salesforce is a one-stop sales and support CRM software that regularly updates customer records, tracks emails and calls, and creates organised support processes for quicker customer responses. Its simple and scalable infrastructure is ideal for businesses of all sizes.
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Pipedrive stands out with its emphasis on automation, tailorability, and seamless integration. Purposefully built to enhance the efficiency and productivity of sales professionals, this CRM solution has an intuitive setup and robust capabilities. It facilitates lead generation, comprehensive sales analytics, and seamless business expansion.
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Oracle NetSuite CRM, a component of Oracle's business software suite, is for all midsize and booming businesses that want a comprehensive, integrated CRM solution with ERP capabilities. Using it, customers and partners can directly interact with the platform, freeing the additional work load for their sales team.
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales represents a robust cloud-based CRM solution brimming with features such as pipeline assessment, relationship analytics, and conversational intelligence. It utilises AI-powered insights to provide actionable intelligence via predictive analytics, lead scoring and sentiment analysis.
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Less Annoying is a CRM software that utilises a straightforward search feature within its contact management system, making it easy to track contacts. It is ideal for small-sized businesses and offers a highly intuitive and user-friendly interface.
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Insightly offers CRM software solutions for enterprises looking to understand their audience data across various marketing functions. It integrates seamlessly with third-party apps, streamlining workflow automation, including bulk emailing and report generation.
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HubSpot's sleek dashboard with consolidated CRM tools simplify complex customer data, further transforming it into meaningful insights. Complementing typical CRM functionalities, HubSpot provides tailored options, including conversation intelligence and email monitoring.
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Apptivo delivers adaptable and web-based CRM solutions, enabling marketing and sales teams to streamline all customer service requirements across various devices and browsers. Despite its focused feature set, it encompasses over 65 interconnected applications alongside a robust sales pipeline management tool, ensuring efficient tracking of potential leads without any downtime.
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Sitecore offers composable cloud solutions with its flagship products, Sitecore Experience Platform(XP) and Sitecore Experience Manager (XM). They help marketers to overcome scalability challenges. Some of its features include intuitive visual editing, headless delivery, marketing automation, scalable personalisation, data and machine learning capabilities.
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Salesforce Experience Cloud is a platform that helps enterprises link clients, partners, and employees to securely exchange information and documents. Built on its Customer 360 platform, Salesforce's DXP ensures seamless integration with any solution in the Salesforce ecosystem.
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Oracle Cloud offers a comprehensive suite of platform-based marketing automation solutions for personalised B2B and B2C automation campaigns. Some of its featured products are Eloqua Marketing Automation, CrowdTwist Loyalty and Engagement, and Unity Customer Data Platform.
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Optimizely is a digital experience platform (DXP) provider that offers Optimizely One, an easy-to-use and fully integrated suite. It provides a single, unified workflow with thoughtfully embedded AI and machine-learning algorithms, accelerating work across the entire marketing lifecycle.
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OpenText offers a cloud-native, scalable platform for enterprises to streamline their marketing functions. It provides fully composable content management, digital asset management, creative workflows, personalisation, targeting and customer data technologies in one place, ensuring a holistic approach to B2B, B2E and B2C experiences.
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Neptune DXP is a PaaS(Platform-as-a-Service) provider, helping marketing teams build custom apps based on modular, reusable application building blocks. The company offers flexible environments to businesses across different verticals, further providing personalised digital solutions at scale.
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Magnolia is a composable DXP that comes with no-code connector packs and low-code micro-frameworks for third-party integrations. It also offers an open-source version alongside its commercial plans enabling enterprises to build tailored use cases.
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Liferay DXP helps marketers deliver personalised and connected digital experiences across a broad range of channels, including customer portals, websites, intranets, mobile apps, and connected devices. It offers intuitive CMS, user analytics, and site management tools that businesses need to launch, test and optimise digital experiences for faster go-to-market.
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Powered by IBM Consulting, IBM iX offers a composable DXP, providing a comprehensive solution to make enterprises' systems future-ready. Utilising its data-driven insights and intelligent workflows, marketers can design and deliver human-centred experiences across the customer lifecycle.
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HCL Digital Experience (DX), forms part of a wider HCL Customer Experience (CX) product portfolio, offering core capabilities such as content management, DAM, CDP called Signals, and low-code application development. It provides services in government, life sciences, insurance, financial services, and other verticals.
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Contentstack is a headless CMS and Composable Digital Experience Platform (DXP) solution provider that helps marketers gain a competitive edge. It recently launched into Google Cloud Marketplace, and is also available on Microsoft Azure and AWS. It seamlessly enables mid-market brands to adopt its omnichannel campaign engine to drive higher conversions and sales.
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Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud provides businesses an edge with its modular capabilities: Content Management System (CMS), Discovery features for search and merchandising optimisation, and Engagement tools such as Customer Data Platforms (CDP) for personalisation and analytics.
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Adobe Experience Cloud offers a comprehensive set of services specifically designed to address the day-to-day requirements for personalised customer experience at scale. Its platform helps manage different digital content and assets to improve customer satisfaction. Some of its products include Adobe Gen Studio, Experience Manager Sites, Real-time CDP, and Marketo Engage.
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JPMorgan allowing only essential staff travel in Middle East, source says
JPMorgan Chase is allowing only essential travel in and out of the Middle East for employees, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday. (Reporting by Pritam Biswas in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva)


Arabian Business
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- Arabian Business
Indian Aces 2025: Meet the Gulf's most powerful Indian business leaders
The Indian business community remains an indispensable pillar of the United Arab Emirates' economic architecture. These entrepreneurs, executives, and visionaries – many of whom are celebrated in our Indian Aces 2025 power list – have transformed industries across the Emirates. From retail and healthcare to technology and construction, these business leaders have created enterprises that form the backbone of the region's economic landscape. With the Indian expatriate population reaching 4.36 million by late 2024 and over 90,000 Indian-owned companies operating throughout the UAE, their economic footprint is impossible to overstate. The Indian Aces power list recognises these business leaders who have built more than corporate empires; they've created entire ecosystems that drive innovation, employment, and economic diversification. The remarkable individuals featured in our 2025 Indian Aces list represent the pinnacle of this influence – seasoned titans who've spent decades building multibillion-dollar conglomerates alongside emerging disruptors redefining traditional markets. Their stories reflect not just personal success but the enduring strength of Indo-Gulf economic partnerships that continue to shape the region's future. Indian Aces 2025 Power List Atif Rahman has established himself as a thought leader in real estate through ORO24 Developments, a Dubai-based company focused on accessible property ownership. Under his leadership, the firm has launched 32 projects spanning 16.5 million square feet of built-up area, with AED 11.5 billion in sales portfolio across 11,750 units. Rahman's innovative '1%' payment plan has revolutionised property financing, making homeownership accessible to broader audiences. With developments across prime Dubai locations including Arjan, Studio City, and Sheikh Zayed Road, his business model combines products, associated services, financial engineering and relationships. Rahman has built a robust sales network of over 3,500 agents serving clients from more than 150 nationalities. 'I believe in doing business based on clean ethics and a value system that is rewarding for everyone involved by deploying our core competencies.' 2 Captain Pradeep Singh / Navneet Mandhani Founder, Karma Realty Developers; Chairman, Aethon Group / Co-founder, Karma Realty Developers Captain Pradeep Singh and Navneet Mandhani co-founded Karma Realty Developers in 2013, transforming it into a transnational development company with projects across the UAE, UK, Cyprus, Romania, and India. The firm has completed over 25 projects with a land bank of five million square feet and 2.5 million square feet under construction, representing a development pipeline valued at approximately $354 million. Their UAE portfolio includes luxury developments such as Beach House in Palm Jumeirah and Centurion Residence in Dubai Investment Park, with their Centurion Star project selling out in just three days. Singh, who was recently recognised in prestigious power lists for real estate leaders in the region, also chairs Aethon Group with diverse interests in shipping and technology. He began his career as a master mariner before establishing Aethon Marine Services in 2010, later expanding into a diversified conglomerate. Beyond business, Singh is a committed philanthropist supporting education and entrepreneurship initiatives across the region. Mandhani, a tech and trading entrepreneur, brings his expertise to bridge the market gap between high-end living and affordability, playing a significant role in Dubai's dynamic real estate landscape through innovative development concepts and strategic market positioning. Pankaj Gupta co-founded Gulf Islamic Investments (GII) in 2014, establishing it as a Shari'ah-compliant investment firm with over $4.5 billion in assets under management. With more than twenty years' experience, Gupta previously managed multi-asset UNHWI investment portfolios at National Bank of Abu Dhabi (2000-04), established Union National Financial Consultancy (2004-12), and co-founded a private equity platform before launching GII. His focus spans investments in education, food production, healthcare, private credit and debt across the GCC, India, Germany, and the United States. 'We were proud of our previous companies, but my co-founder and co-partner in GII, Mohammed Alhassan, and I thought that we could do even better if we created our own company,' Gupta said. He has established Eureka! GCC, Asia's largest business start-up competition, and remains 'eternally grateful to the UAE's leadership for enabling and encouraging constructive innovation across the region.' Bal Krishen has transformed Century Group from a modest financial services company into a diversified enterprise spanning investment services, wealth management, banking, insurance, real estate, technology, and logistics. Rising from his position as a dealer at Century Financial in 1999, Krishen's strategic vision expanded the firm into a global operation with DIFC-domiciled Century Private Wealth, Century Bank Brokers, and Savington International Insurance Broker. His leadership philosophy emphasises sustainability, simplicity, and scalability, with a strong focus on empowering individuals. His philanthropic efforts focus on financial literacy, economic empowerment, and sustainability initiatives. Century Financial has been recognised as one of the best workplaces, reflecting Krishen's commitment to fostering 'a dynamic, motivated, and engaged team' while building 'not just a successful enterprise but an enduring legacy.' Nilesh Khalkho has positioned Sharaf DG as a leading electronics retailer across the Middle East since its founding in 2005. Under his leadership, the company operates 30 stores across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, and Oman, serving over one million customers monthly. With more than 20 years of experience in retail and technology, Khalkho previously held significant roles at Al Futtaim Telecom, DSS Mobile Communications, and Reliance Telecom. His customer-centric initiatives include the 'best price guarantee' and the 24-hour 'product not available, claim-free' promise. Over the years, Sharaf DG has won numerous industry accolades in the retail sector. The company's diverse workforce of 2,700 employees from over 40 nationalities reflects Khalkho's commitment to creating an inclusive environment while expanding the retailer's 700,000-square-foot footprint across the region. Omar Gull founded Cledor to bring technological innovation to the real estate sector in the Middle East. Drawing from his experience across different industry roles, Gull identified key pain points – slow processes, lack of transparency, and limited buyer access – that could be transformed through technology. His approach incorporates e-commerce, mobile platforms, and digital tools to create a more streamlined and customer-centric real estate market. 'The real estate sector has always been seen as traditional and sometimes resistant to change, but I saw an opportunity to bring a more modern, tech-driven approach,' Gull explained. 'My frustration with how slow the industry can be to adapt to new technologies and methods has been the main driver for challenging the status quo in real estate in the region.' Jayesh Patel is shaping the virtual banking landscape for the Middle East as CEO of Wio Bank PJSC, a platform bank headquartered in Abu Dhabi and owned by ADQ, Alpha Dubai, Etisalat, and First Abu Dhabi Bank. With 14 years in the fintech industry, Patel is building Wio as an open platform offering digital banking apps, embedded finance, and Banking-as-a-Service solutions. His experience includes working with Fortune 500 clients at Deloitte and IBM in the US before driving the development and launch of Liv. By Emirates NBD, where he oversaw its online finance ecosystem. Previously, as Head of Retail Strategy at Emirates NBD, he led the digitisation of customer services and processes. Patel remains an active member of the Angel investment community in the Middle East and North Africa region. Shyam Bhatia has transformed Alam Steel Group from a small building materials firm into one of the largest steel companies in the Middle East since founding it in 1979. Arriving in Dubai by ship in 1965, the Indian entrepreneur now oversees five subsidiaries, including recent expansions with a production facility in Dubai (2022) for fabricating steel plates for the oil and gas industry and a reinforcement steel bar facility in Abu Dhabi (2024). The company's rebar factory at Dubai Investments Park has a production capacity of 300,000 tonnes annually. Beyond business, Bhatia is equally passionate about cricket, initiating the Cricket For Care Foundation in 2007 to provide equipment, facilities, and coaching to underprivileged children across 20 countries. He also curates what may be the world's only private cricket museum and has been named one of the UAE's 40 most influential Asians. Ankur Aggarwal and Vivek Anand Oberoi have established BNW Developments as one of the fastest-scaling real estate firms in the Middle East, with over AED 20 billion in assets under management. Aggarwal, a Chartered Accountant who transitioned from finance to real estate in 2021, serves as Chairman and Founder, while Oberoi, globally recognised as an actor and entrepreneur, is Co-Founder and Managing Director. Their portfolio includes design-forward projects such as Taj Wellington Mews, Aqua Arc, FashionTV Acacia, and Orvessa. Recognised as the largest private developer in Ras Al Khaimah, BNW operates with a 400+ strong team and zero-backlog track record. 'The visionary governance of the Emirates and the region's progressive leadership have created a business environment where innovation isn't just encouraged, it's systemically supported,' said Aggarwal. 'For us, real estate isn't just about construction, it's storytelling. It's legacy-building. We wanted to develop spaces that don't just function, but inspire,' Oberoi added. Avinash Babur has built into the UAE's largest digital insurance platform, serving over 200,000 policyholders with a 4.8-star rating across 25,000+ Google reviews. The second-generation entrepreneur transformed AFIA Insurance Brokerage Services LLC into a technology-led, customer-first brand so successful it secured naming rights to the InsuranceMarket Metro Station in Dubai. Under Babur's leadership, the company has rejected commission-driven selling while introducing innovations like InstantAlfred, a 24/7 human-backed advisory chat. 'Insurance was always meant to offer peace of mind – but in practice, it became confusing, transactional, and opaque,' Babur explained. 'We didn't just want to sell policies – we wanted to protect people's futures in a way they understood and valued.' As chapter chair of YPO UAE, Babur is increasingly recognised as a thought leader shaping the region's financial services future. Sonia Gokhale is a Co-Founder and General Partner at VentureSouq, a Dubai-based venture capital firm established in 2013. The firm has invested in over 250 startups globally, with a focus on fintech and climate tech. Notably, VentureSouq launched the MENA region's first sector-specific fintech fund, MENA FinTech Fund I, a $50 million initiative targeting early-stage fintech and SaaS companies across MENA and Pakistan. Gokhale has also led the Conscious Collective fund, which supports mission-driven startups addressing environmental and social challenges. Rishi Kapoor is Vice Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Investcorp, a Bahrain-based alternative investment firm managing over $52 billion in assets across 14 offices globally. He joined Investcorp in 1992 from Citigroup and has held various senior roles, including Co-CEO from 2015 to 2024 and Chief Financial Officer from 2003 to 2015. Kapoor is instrumental in the firm's strategic focus on sustainability, overseeing the development of a multi-billion-dollar platform targeting climate tech investments. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the National Bank of Bahrain, chairing its Risk & Compliance Committee. Shoba Menon is the Group CEO and founding partner of Equity Group of Companies, an independent advertising agency established in Dubai in 1998. Under her leadership, the agency has expanded its presence across the MENA region, including Saudi Arabia and Egypt, and has serviced over 20 high-profile clients such as Citibank, Dettol, and L'Oréal Paris. Menon previously served as Managing Director for Wunderman MENA and holds a Master's in Industrial Psychology from the University of Mysore. Padma Kumar has established Luxe Port as a premier distributor of luxury fragrances in the UAE since founding it in 2018. The company, which employs over 150 staff, provides comprehensive go-to-market services including import, warehousing, logistics, marketing, and brand registration. Under Kumar's leadership, Luxe Port inaugurated a state-of-the-art Dubai headquarters in early 2024, symbolised by a decade-forward time capsule sealed until 2029. Initially focused on EuroItalia brand distribution, Kumar has expanded into new luxury fragrance partnerships while implementing tech-forward marketing initiatives. In 2023, Luxe Port became the UAE's first luxury fragrance distributor to receive Great Place to Work certification, earning congratulations from H.H. Sheikh Mana Bin Hasher Al Maktoum. Kumar has also guided international expansion, with a November 2023 investment of around $18 million into India's White Lotus Group to support luxury real estate projects. Himanshu Saini has established himself as a pioneering force in modern Indian cuisine at Trèsind Studio in Dubai. Born in New Delhi, Saini began under chef Manish Mehrotra at Indian Accent before joining Masala Library and Farzi Café. After moving to the UAE, he launched Trèsind Studio in 2018 as a 20-seater chef's table concept reimagining Indian traditions. The restaurant earned its first Michelin star in 2022, a second in 2023, and made history in 2025 by securing a third Michelin star – becoming the first Indian restaurant globally to achieve this distinction. Saini's unprecedented acclaim includes four Gault&Millau toques (another first for Indian cuisine), Gault&Millau's Chef of the Year (2023), and recognition in The World's 50 Best Restaurants, where Trèsind Studio ranked #11 in 2023, #13 in 2024, and #27 in 2025. The Best Chef Awards named Trèsind Studio 'Best Restaurant' and Saini 'Best Chef' in Dubai in 2024, awarding the maximum three knives distinction. Describing himself as an 'ingredient scientist,' Saini blends science, art, and heritage in menus featuring 50 per cent vegetarian dishes. He oversees culinary teams at Trèsind locations in Mumbai and Kuwait, and co-launched Avatara in Mumbai – a 100 per cent vegetarian restaurant. In 2024, he joined Jaeger-LeCoultre's 'Made of Makers' program, creating dishes paralleling watchmaking precision. Dileep Kumar is the founder and chairman of Heilbronn Properties, a Dubai-based luxury real estate developer established in 2002. A civil engineer by profession and self-taught architect, Kumar has transformed a modest engineering office into a prestigious property development company serving ultra-high-net-worth individuals. The company has developed high-end properties in prime locations such as Palm Jumeirah, Emirates Hills, and Jumeirah Golf Estates, with a reputation for exceptional quality and meticulous specifications. Currently, Kumar is spearheading a 1.6 million square foot expansion of luxury residential towers across key city locations, set for completion by 2027. His property portfolio includes involvement in landmark projects like the Burj Khalifa and Mall of the Emirates. Beyond business, Kumar is an accomplished golfer who has represented the UAE in international events, including the BMW Amateur World Golf Final in South Africa (2006) and the Turkish Airlines World Final in Turkey (2019). His philanthropic initiatives include a tennis academy in Kerala, India, providing free training to underprivileged children while producing several state and district players. Sumeet Khutale founded Lamaa Tech in early 2021, establishing it as a pioneering fintech firm providing supply chain finance, invoice financing, and B2B 'buy now, pay later' solutions for Middle Eastern SMEs. With a strong background in financial technology from roles at Barclays Capital and J.P. Morgan, Khutale secured one of Saudi Arabia's largest seed funding rounds – $5.5 million – co-led by Raed Ventures and Saudi Aramco's Wa'ed entrepreneurship arm. Under his leadership, Lamaa rapidly attracted over 100 corporate clients and processed more than $1 billion worth of invoices within months of launch. The Riyadh-based company now supports 1,500+ SMEs and has launched a $100 million funding program with Rassanah Capital. Aligning with Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 goals of boosting SME contributions to the economy, Khutale is expanding Lamaa's services into Egypt, the UAE, and Qatar. In 2025, Forbes Middle East ranked Lamaa Tech #42 in its Fintech 50 list. Vineet Budki leads Sigma Capital, a Dubai-based $100 million crypto-native venture capital fund focused on Web3 investments across early-stage ventures, liquid tokens, DeFi yields, and fund-of-funds allocations. With 21 years in the UAE, Budki previously served as CEO and Managing Partner at Cypher Capital, growing it to manage hundreds of millions in AUM. Throughout his career, he has personally overseen investments in over 300 blockchain startups, including industry leaders like Mysten Labs (Sui), Peaq Network, Revolving Games, Manta Network, Casper Labs, Mocaverse, and Humanity Protocol. A recognised thought leader, Budki speaks at prestigious global forums including the World Economic Forum in Davos, Consensus, and Token2049. In 2024, Arabian Business named him among the 'Top 10 Crypto Personalities Globally.' 'I would advise people to look at Value and the Efficiency that you are going to bring to an established industry and not be driven by short-term gains,' said Budki. 'Money [or] wealth is a good initiator, but legacy [and] vision should drive someone who wants to disrupt.' Harish Prithvi serves as Chief Operating Officer at AIX Investment Group, emerging as a transformative force in the UAE's financial sector with over two decades of experience across consulting, real estate, finance, and technology. Beginning his career in the mid-2000s with global giants like KPMG and Tata Group, Prithvi joined AIX as Director of Strategy, where his innovative approach redefined client engagement and product structuring. As COO, he orchestrates AIX's strategic growth through regulatory expertise, market intelligence, and a deep understanding of investor behaviour to deliver bespoke, risk-managed investment solutions. Under his leadership, AIX has earned multiple accolades, including Gulf Business Investment Company of the Year (2023). Named Business Leader of the Year in Finance (2023), Prithvi represents the dynamic evolution of Indian leadership in the Middle East's investment landscape. 'My advice to anyone looking to disrupt established industries is simple: don't chase disruption – chase relevance. True impact doesn't come from breaking things for the sake of being different; it comes from deeply understanding the pain points in your industry and solving them in a way that's sustainable, scalable, and meaningful,' said Prithvi. Ramesh Cidambi serves as Managing Director of Dubai Duty Free, reporting directly to H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Civil Aviation Authority and Chairman of Dubai Duty Free. With the company since 1988, when he joined as head of the IT division, Cidambi spent eight years as Chief Operating Officer before his current appointment. During his 37-year tenure, he has overseen the company's transformation into the world's largest airport retailer in a single location, achieving sales of US$2.164 billion in 2024. Cidambi's responsibilities span all operational aspects across over 40,000 square metres of retail space at Dubai's airports. He also directs Dubai Duty Free Leisure, encompassing Jumeirah Creekside Hotel, The Irish Village Bar and Restaurant in two locations, Century Village and the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium. Cidambi maintains strong industry connections as chairman of a Merchants Advisory Board and treasurer of Dubai's Retail Business Group. 'Dubai Duty Free had to be continuously innovative as both products and technology change constantly and the consumers in the Middle East are one of the most discerning in the world,' said Cidambi. Benoy Kurien is the Group CEO of Al Hamra, a UAE-based lifestyle development and investment company established in 2003. Since his appointment as CEO in 2018, he has overseen the expansion of Al Hamra's portfolio, which includes Al Hamra Village, a 77-million-square-foot waterfront community featuring over 4,000 residential units, five hotels, a marina, and a shopping mall. Under his leadership, Al Hamra has launched luxury projects such as the Waldorf Astoria Residences Ras Al Khaimah and the Sofitel Al Hamra Beach Resort. Kurien has also championed inclusivity initiatives, including a partnership with Hidden Disabilities Sunflower to support individuals with hidden disabilities across Al Hamra's properties. 22 Rishi Kishor Gupta Regional Director, Nothing Tech Rishi Kishor Gupta serves as Regional Director for the Middle East and Africa at Nothing Tech, a London-based consumer technology company known for its minimalist design philosophy. Since his appointment in November 2022, Gupta has spearheaded the brand's expansion across the GCC, launching products such as Phone (1), Phone (2), and the Phone (3a) series. With 15-18 years of experience in retail, consumer electronics, and tech leadership, he previously played a key role in building Huawei's Middle East operations. An alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad, Gupta has been instrumental in securing strategic distribution agreements across the UAE and Bahrain in early 2024, overseeing triple-digit sales growth for Nothing's product lines including Phone (1), Buds Pro 2, and Watch Pro 2. His leadership has earned him recognition as Outstanding CEO at the UAE Mastermind Awards 2025 and Next-Gen Leader by Inc. Arabia. Beyond his corporate role, Gupta maintains an active presence on LinkedIn with over 16,000 followers, where he engages as a mentor, investor, and speaker, while also serving as a thought leader at industry events and in regional tech media. Satya Anand is President for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Marriott International, overseeing over 998 hotels across 75 countries. Since his appointment in 2020, he has led strategic functions including operations, finance and development, and driven record growth, including 291 hotel signings in 2024. A Marriott veteran since 1988, when he started as a night auditor at the Vienna Marriott Hotel, Anand has held key roles including CFO Europe and COO Luxury & Southern Europe. Under his leadership, Marriott has completed major projects including the multi-million-dollar renovation of The Ritz-Carlton Berlin, the launch of The St. Regis Venice, and the expansion of W Hotels with additions such as W Ibiza. Bally Singh is the Chairman of HOKO Agency, a globally recognised creative and marketing powerhouse with offices in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, London, Singapore, and Marbella. The agency has delivered standout campaigns and events for prestigious clients including LVMH, Mercedes-Benz, Red Bull, OKX, DP World, McLaren, and Alfa Romeo. With roots in global events and brand activations, Singh has established himself as an unconventional leader with a future-forward approach to marketing. Beyond HOKO, he co-founded Hum(AI)n Assets, a pioneering content production platform that blends AI speed with human creative oversight. His recent acquisition of Everdome and integration of blockchain-powered systems into content workflows positions him at the intersection of fintech, media, and innovation. Singh has also advised prominent entities like Abu Dhabi Global Market and the Department of Culture and Tourism, contributing to the UAE's economic and cultural landscape. 'Building in the Middle East has forced me to raise my expectations – not just of others, but of myself. It's one of the few regions in the world where ambition isn't just respected, it's expected,' states Singh. 'Disruption isn't a buzzword here, it's the baseline.' Dyuti Parruck is the CEO and co-founder of Decisive Zone, a Dubai-based consultancy specialising in business setup, Golden Visa facilitation, and end-to-end corporate services. Established in 2019, the firm has grown to employ over 200 professionals serving more than 6,000 clients with a valuation exceeding $27 million. Widely recognised as 'Mr. Golden Visa,' Parruck has helped industry professionals, investors, entrepreneurs, and creatives secure long-term UAE residency and establish companies in the region. Under his leadership, Decisive Zone has expanded its presence to the United States while broadening its service portfolio to include real estate through a strategic joint venture with Safa Siddiqui, aimed at assisting high-net-worth individuals relocating to the UAE. His approach focuses on simplifying complex processes across company formation, visa services, banking, and relocation. 'I saw an opportunity to make business setup more transparent and accessible, especially for people outside the UAE,' said Parruck. 'We help clients start their business, secure their residency, and find their home – all under one roof.'


Arabian Business
2 hours ago
- Arabian Business
India and Pakistan lead new business registrations with Dubai Chamber in Q1
Indian-owned companies were the leading foreign group to join the Dubai Chamber of Commerce during the first quarter of 2025, according to a new report. There were 4,543 new Indian businesses registered between January and March of this year, the report said. The figure marks a 4.4 per cent year-over-year increase, highlighting India's dominant position as Dubai's largest foreign business community. The analysis reflects the ongoing strength of international business activity in Dubai and the emirate's appeal to global entrepreneurs across diverse sectors. Top 10 nationalities of new Dubai Chamber members in Q1 2025 India: 4,543 companies (+4.4 per cent YoY) Pakistan: 2,154 companies Egypt: 1,362 companies Bangladesh: 817 companies (+28.5 per cent YoY) United Kingdom: 678 companies Syria: 462 companies Jordan: 350 companies China: 347 companies Türkiye: 329 companies Iraq: 303 companies The wholesale and retail trade sector led the growth, accounting for 36.2 per cent of new company registrations. This was followed closely by: