Case Study: The Abraaj Group achieves faster deal decision-making and unified knowledge access with iManage Insight

Abraaj Drives Innovation in Private Equity Market With Implementation of iManage’s Cognitive Search Solution

The Abraaj Group, a leading investor with around US$10 billion in assets under management across Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Turkey, needed to better leverage deep local and sector expertise across its 17+ offices. Its central SharePoint repository (OPERA) left investment teams navigating multiple sites and external sources in a slow, disjointed process that risked overlooking critical information and constrained fundraising, deal screening and decision‑making.

Abraaj selected iManage Insight (powered by RAVN) after a proof of concept and phased rollout, integrating cognitive search and the iManage Knowledge Graph into OPERA to surface and visualise experts, content and relationships through a single secure interface. The platform has dramatically improved access to proprietary and commissioned knowledge, accelerated fundraising, screening, due diligence and portfolio management, and given Abraaj a measurable competitive advantage while enabling plans to expand the system’s cognitive capabilities.

The Abraaj Group

Ovais Naqvi

Managing Director