A Gathering That Moved Finance Minds Forward.
Last week in Riyadh 🇸🇦, our team had the honor of joining some of the brightest minds in the region at the CFO Leadership Summit 2025 Saudi Arab.
The room wasn’t just full of people — it was full of vision, decisions, leadership, innovation, and curiosity. We connected with CFOs, Finance Directors, CIOs, and strategists from across the Middle East who are navigating a world of rapid change and rising expectations.
The Conversations That Mattered.
From one-on-one conversations to open panels, a few key themes kept coming up:
➤ How do we make better financial decisions, faster?
➤ How can we bring planning, reporting, and forecasting together?
➤ Can AI help my finance team — and how?
These weren’t just theoretical questions. These were real challenges leaders are facing every day. At the summit, we introduced many attendees to ZAKAA, a product of Diamond Group.
Which is the first Arabic-driven decision-intelligence ecosystem that helps government, CFOs, CHROs, and data teams automate financial planning, budgeting, and reporting to get real-time insights anytime, anywhere to achieve management excellence.
ZAKAA – Arabic-driven AI-Powered Decision Intelligence Ecosystem.
We showed how our platform unifies Predictive AI, Business Intelligence, and Enterprise Performance Management into a single cloud platform that can centralize, visualize, analyze, and improve your decision making – all in one place with real-time insights anytime, anywhere.
We’re not here to add more dashboards. We’re here to help decision makers like you tell a better story—faster, clearer, and grounded in real-time intelligence. Because in the new world data, you don’t win by being accurate—you win by being insightful.
Why Choose ZAKAA?
An all-in-one platform to turn your data into decisions (and dollars)✦ The first Arabic-driven decision-intelligence ecosystem for decision-makers and leaders.
✦ 300+ ready KPIs. Feel confident in every decision with insights ready when you need them.
✦ AI + BI + EPM. No more data silos with single version of truth by connecting with your existing financial, accounting, HRIS, CRM and operations systems for a complete financial picture.
✦ Autonomous Budgeting. Get clarity, speed, and relief from month-end pressure.
✦ AI Agents to analyze data, flag risks, and recommend the best actions.
✦ User Behavior Analytics. Build a data-first culture by seeing how your team interacts with data and where improvements can happen.
✦ Predictive Planning. Shorten your planning cycle by 50%. Feel one step ahead, always. No more surprises at the boardroom table.
✦ Pre-Build Data Warehouse Architecture. No need to build from scratch. ZAKAA connects to 200+ data sources. Start fast, scale smart, and experience growth all in one place.
✦ IT Planning. Align your financial, HR, and IT plans in one view. No more disconnected silos. With ZAKAA, collaboration becomes clarity, and execution becomes effortless.
What Top CFOs Asked — and How We Answered.
Q. CFOs asked:
“What’s the difference between using ChatGPT and using ZAKAA?”
Our CEO answered:
ChatGPT is smart, but it doesn’t know your business. ZAKAA learns from your internal business data. It tells you what’s happening, why it’s happening, and recommends what to do next. ZAKAA is like a Large Decision Intelligence Action Model that tells you what should be done next, not only what to say next. Hattem Elkady, CEO – Diamond Group.
For example, if your gross profit has dropped, Zakaa can show you the root cause behind that KPI, then recommend how to increase revenue or reduce costs, all in a structured, explainable way.
Q. CFOs asked:
Is my data secure?
Our CEO answered:
With ChatGPT and similar public tools, your data may leave your environment. But with ZAKAA? Your data stays within your ecosystem. No public sharing. No compromise. It’s secure, compliant, and tailored — because we believe AI should empower you, not expose you.
The Most Memorable Moments.
Seeing our CEO, Hatem Elkady take the stage to present awards to some of the region’s top-performing CFOs. A proud moment — not just for Diamond, but for everyone driving finance forward in the Middle East region to achieve Vision 2030 objectives.
A Big Thank You.
To everyone who attends, connects, and shares ideas with us, especially those who stopped by to speak with our team, ask the tough questions, and share insights. These conversations are exactly what will shape the future of finance in our region.
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Because every delayed decision costs you millions.
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