Microsoft Financial Services Saudi Arabia

Sanabil Investments

Enterprise Knowledge Search · IT Operations Automation

Sanabil Investments, a financial services company in Saudi Arabia, needed to enhance productivity by reducing the time employees spent on manual everyday tasks, diverting focus from more strategic and valuable work.

Implementing Microsoft 365 Copilot represents a pivotal step in enabling our employees to harness the power of AI to enhance their work processes, make informed decisions, and collaborate more effectively," shares Al Kah
Sanabil Investments, based in Saudi Arabia, commits around USD3 billion annually to private investments, including venture, growth capital, and small buyouts.
The integration of AI through Microsoft 365 Copilot enables employees to enhance work processes, make informed decisions, and collaborate more effectively.
This not only ensures that our presentations are comprehensive and refined but the overall process is 50% faster than doing everything manually," Alshaiq adds.

Reported impact

Business outcome

Employees can now create visually appealing presentations with speaker notesautomatically generated by Copilot. Customer templates and Copilot’s design suggestions help improve the document quality. This not only ensures that our presentations are comprehensive and refined but the overall process is 50% faster than doing everything manually," Alshaiq adds.

  • Compliance
  • Customer Experience
  • Productivity Improvement
  • Speed to Market

Solution

Sanabil Investments built this solution on Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Teams. Sanabil Investments, a financial services company in Saudi Arabia, needed to enhance productivity by reducing the time employees spent on manual everyday tasks, diverting focus from more strategic and valuable work. Microsoft 365 Copilot assists employees with drafting, summarization, and information retrieval inside daily work tools. Microsoft Teams presents collaboration workflows and shared communication experiences to end users. Sanabil Investments collaborated with Netways to adopt Microsoft 365 Copilot through structured adoption plan, including hands-on workshops and custom training content. Sanabil’s IT department automates day-to-day business processes. Documents, meetings, and collaboration context remain in Microsoft 365 while Copilot generates grounded drafts, summaries, and answers directly inside daily employee workflows.

Data flow

Documents, meetings, and collaboration context remain in Microsoft 365 while Copilot generates grounded drafts, summaries, and answers directly inside daily employee workflows.

Solution architecture

2 components · 1 layer
  1. Serving
    • Microsoft 365 Copilot Assists employees with drafting, summarization, and information retrieval inside daily work tools.
    • Microsoft Teams Presents collaboration workflows and shared communication experiences to end users.

Architecture clues

  • The implementation relies on Microsoft 365 Copilot as a core technical building block.

Evidence from the source

Employees can now create visually appealing presentations with speaker notesautomatically generated by Copilot. Customer templates and Copilot’s design suggestions help improve the document quality.
Sanabil Investments collaborated with Netways to adopt Microsoft 365 Copilot through structured adoption plan, including hands-on workshops and custom training content.
Sanabil Investments, a financial services company in Saudi Arabia, needed to enhance productivity by reducing the time employees spent on manual everyday tasks, diverting focus from more strategic and valuable work.
Sanabil Investments, based in Saudi Arabia, commits around USD3 billion annually to private investments, including venture, growth capital, and small buyouts.
The integration of AI through Microsoft 365 Copilot enables employees to enhance work processes, make informed decisions, and collaborate more effectively.
Transparency Evidence & methodology 100/100 reference value · 89% confidence · 1 source

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Scoring methodology

How scores are calculated

Customer Reference Value measures usefulness as a customer reference. Evidence Confidence measures the quality and traceability of available evidence, not independent verification.

Customer reference value100/100
  • Problem clarity20/20
    Measures whether the customer's operational problem is specific enough to compare.
  • Implementation depth25/25
    Rewards named components, data flow, integrations, and architecture detail.
  • Outcome specificity20/20
    Measures whether the reported benefit is concrete rather than a generic claim.
  • Quantified impact25/25
    2 metrics describe measurable impact.
  • Deployment scale10/10
    Rewards evidence of a live or scaled deployment and meaningful integration scope.
Evidence confidence89%
  • Source authority20/25
    The main evidence is an official vendor-published customer story.
  • Claim traceability21/25
    10 of 12 key fields link to a named source.
  • Direct evidence20/20
    5 direct source quotes retained.
  • Date provenance10/10
    The publication date comes from the source page or publisher.
  • Source transparency8/10
    1 source reference document publisher, URL, authority, retrieval, and supported fields.
  • Implementation specificity10/10
    Rewards source-backed components, data flow, quantified impact, and a specific outcome.
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    Sanabil Investments customer story

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    https://www.microsoft.com/en/customers/story/20648-sanabil-investments-microsoft-365-copilot
    Source type
    Vendor-published customer story
    Published
    Dec 23, 2024
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Date evidence

  • Published on source page Dec 23, 2024 · Microsoft · First-party
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