e& enterprise and Emergence have announced a partnership to deploy agentic AI solutions across the Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye region.
The collaboration, announced on January 21, will allow organisations in MENAT to access AI agents that can automate processes while maintaining data sovereignty.
e& enterprise, the digital transformation arm of e&, will serve as a distribution and implementation partner for Emergence’s AI platform.
Emergence and e& enterprise launch data-sovereign AI solutions for Middle East enterprises
Enterprise clients will be able to deploy solutions in cloud-agnostic installations or on-premises, air-gapped environments. Organisations will retain control over their data, models and workflows.
“This partnership marks a pivotal moment in the evolution of enterprise AI across the MENAT region,” Amit Gupta, VP & Head of Data, AI and Fintech at e& enterprise said in a statement.
“Enterprises are moving quickly to operationalise AI, and they need solutions that deliver real impact—not just experimentation. As AI becomes increasingly agentic, data governance has become one of the most critical enablers of safe, scalable automation. Emergence serves as the intelligence layer that brings built-in governance, observability and controls into every workflow. Our partnership introduces a new class of autonomous AI capability to the region—systems that can automate complex processes, accelerate decision-making, and enforce governance by design while ensuring full data and model sovereignty. This collaboration reflects our commitment to helping customers deploy AI safely, confidently, and at scale,” he added.
The Emergence platform uses a three-tier framework comprising Foundation, Intelligence and Transformation layers. The Foundation layer automates data discovery, mapping, unification and entity resolution.
The Intelligence layer defines concepts, relationships and rules for contextual understanding. The Transformation layer includes an ACA engine (Agents Creating Agents) that builds agents to automate workflows.
“Every organisation we work with shares the same challenge: they want to scale AI, but their data and processes are too fragmented and still require constant human oversight,” Satya Nitta, Co-founder and CEO of Emergence explained.
“Agentic automation changes this by allowing enterprises to finally understand their data and then make use of it far more quickly—saving months of human effort—to drive actionable insights. Our platform creates a unified, intelligent foundation where our autonomous agents can reason, act, and deliver measurable value. Partnering with e& enterprise allows us to bring this capability to organisations across the MENAT region, helping them reduce operational friction, strengthen governance, and deploy agentic systems that drive real competitive advantage,” he further explained.
Agentic AI partnership between e& enterprise and Emergence targets MENAT enterprises
The platform can automate processes in semiconductor yield analysis, pharmaceutical research and financial reporting. The partnership aims to address business-specific integrations and operations that generic AI products cannot handle.
According to P&S Intelligence, the GCC artificial intelligence market is estimated at $12.3 billion in 2025 and forecast to reach $26.0 billion by 2032. In the GCC, 19 per cent of organisations have moved from pilots to full-scale implementation of agentic AI, with 74 per cent planning adoption.
e& enterprise operates in the UAE, KSA, Egypt, Oman, Türkiye, Qatar and South Africa. Emergence is headquartered in New York, with offices in California, Spain and India. The Emergence team includes personnel from IBM Research, Google Brain, The Allen Institute for AI, Amazon and Meta.
