Adoption surges as organizations harness GlobalData’s AI Hub, leveraging proprietary data and expert insights to transform decision-making.

LONDON, 08 SEPTEMBER 2025 – More than 100,000 professionals across the world’s largest sectors, spanning technology, industrials, consumer, financials and healthcare, rely on GlobalData Plc’s AI Hub to make critical business decisions with confidence. AI Hub uses generative AI to surface real-time insights from billions of verified data points from over 250 proprietary databases and 100,000 authoritative analyst reports integrated onto GlobalData’s connected intelligence platform. AI Hub users report surfacing key insights up to eight times faster than before.

“We’re pleased with the growing adoption of AI Hub,” said Mike Danson, CEO of GlobalData. “The number of AI Hub users has more than quadrupled in the past seven months and is expected to continue rising significantly. More than 100,000 professionals are already seeing tangible value, including meaningful productivity gains from faster research. But the real strength lies in the proprietary data that underpins AI Hub, giving our clients an edge they can’t get elsewhere.”

Delivering insights at the speed of AI

AI Hub is home to AVA, a purpose-built virtual assistant that sits on top of GlobalData’s proprietary data universe and content library. The conversational interface helps professionals complete complex research tasks in a fraction of the time, while ensuring every insight is linked to a trusted source.

At Volvo Construction Equipment, AI Hub has helped analysts cut research timelines dramatically.

“The productivity increase is enormous. You do things that would take you one day, in one hour. We can spend less time searching and more time analyzing, which means more time to prepare presentations and focus on the overall picture rather than spending technical time finding information,” said Jacques Mathieu, Global Business Intelligence Director at Volvo Construction Equipment.

Meanwhile, the analyst relations team at Orange Business use AI Hub to reduce response times to executive requests and broaden access to intelligence.

“What I really like about AI Hub is how it makes research more accessible, especially for people new to the topic or for whom research is not a predominant part of their function,” said Catherine Freiberg, Head of Industry Analyst Relations at Orange Business.

“For a fast-paced environment like ours, having consumable snippets of information between meetings is invaluable – I can be online with an executive and provide a quick response that gives them the insights they need.”

Grounded in proprietary content

Unlike freely available generative AI tools, AI Hub answers are not generated using general web content. Instead, they are sourced exclusively from GlobalData’s leading proprietary content universe, including:

  • 100,000 analyst reports
  • 250 proprietary databases

This ensures that every response is grounded in verified, market-leading data.

“We didn’t just train an AI; we embedded ‘analyst thinking’ directly into its DNA,” said Sudeep Shouche, Product Innovation Director at GlobalData. “Each AI Hub answer has citations, delivering auditable intelligence that empowers users to make confident decisions, validate facts, and avoid misinformation.”

The unique value of GlobalData’s AI Hub 

  • Exclusive content: Built on GlobalData’s proprietary data and content universe.
  • Source transparency: Every AI Hub answer links to the original source.
  • Expert-driven: Continuous input from 2,000 in-house analysts and researchers specialists and finetuned by 250 AI experts.
  • Purpose-built: Based on a foundation built over a decade of continuous investment in AI technology.

Looking ahead: from research to action

According to State of AI in Business 2025, 95% of organizations are getting zero return on their Gen AI investments. GlobalData, however, is proving that real impact is possible.

Clients are already reporting measurable value from GlobalData’s AI Hub, saving time, broadening access to intelligence, and uncovering new opportunities. The next phase of development will be integrating agentic AI into AI Hub’s capabilities.

“We see a future where AI moves beyond helping professionals find answers to actively shaping decision-making workflows,” said Danson.

GlobalData remains committed to advancing AI that is effective, transparent, and designed to deliver real business impact.

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