AI-Ready Business Performance Management
Explore the importance of a unified data platform when making the most of AI.
What is Needed for Real AI Impact
For years, BI and planning tools helped big enterprises turn data into decisions, while everyone else watched from the sidelines. At Staria, we changed the game by making data-driven management accessible to all through Naviloq.
Now, AI is the next big leap. But unless your data speaks the language of your business, AI is just another expensive experiment. The real breakthrough isn’t a new tool; it’s a unified data platform with a semantic layer. It’s the crucial piece you probably haven’t heard of, but it’s what makes AI trustworthy, actionable, and relevant.
Here’s why this matters
When your data is fragmented and everyone defines KPIs differently, even the smartest AI will give you answers you can’t trust. To truly benefit from AI, you need a foundation where your business logic is clear, consistent, and built into every report, dashboard, and analysis. That’s exactly what Naviloq delivers with every BI and Planning implementation: a harmonized data platform and semantic layer that ensure your AI works for your business, not against it.
The Foundation of Trustworthy AI
What sets Naviloq apart is our semantic layer, a core part of our data platform from day one. When we implement your business performance management solutions, you get a harmonized, business-aligned data foundation that ensures everyone speaks the same language.
But what is a semantic layer, and why does it matter?
A semantic layer is a business logic layer that sits between your raw data and your reports, dashboards, or AI. It translates complex, technical data into clear business definitions—so terms like “sales,” “margin,” or “business unit” always mean the same thing for everyone. This ensures that every report, analysis, and AI insight is based on consistent, agreed-upon rules, not individual interpretations. Without a semantic layer, different teams might calculate KPIs differently, leading to confusion and mistrust. With it, you get clarity, consistency, and confidence in every decision.
The semantic layer defines what your KPIs mean, how they’re calculated, and how data is connected and secured. This means that when you ask, “What were sales and margin last month?” everyone gets the same answer, every time. No more confusion, no more conflicting reports.
From Tools to Solutions: Our Philosophy
We don’t believe in selling tools for the sake of technology. Our mission is to deliver solutions that solve real business problems. With Naviloq, AI isn’t just a tick in the box or a flashy add-on. It is a fully integrated, business-ready solution and an extension of the BI and Planning ecosystem you already rely on.
The Naviloq Difference
Most providers offer standalone AI tools. They are generic, disconnected, and require expensive, enterprise-level investments. Without a semantic layer, AI is just confident guessing. It delivers fast answers, but trust breaks down. Different numbers for different teams, conflicting KPIs, and AI that never moves beyond pilot projects.
With Naviloq, AI is ready by design. You get unified KPIs, secure governance, and a single source of truth. AI connects to your business reality, not data chaos.
And with the AI Controller, you gain a digital partner that actively manages business performance, surfacing what matters, explaining anomalies, and guiding decision-making. It’s not just about faster answers, but about smarter, more confident decisions for every team.
What This Means for CFOs and Controllers
AI is coming to every business, but the real advantage is in how you implement it. With Naviloq, finance professionals can leave all the data management and AI complexities to us. Our AI Controller becomes your digital partner, automating analysis, highlighting risks and opportunities, and delivering clear, reliable insights. You get answers you can trust, freeing you to focus on driving business performance instead of wrestling with data. With Naviloq, you stay ahead: your organization is AI-ready and prepared to lead as new opportunities emerge
Real-Life Example: The Power of the Semantic Layer
Imagine your CFO asks the AI: What was our sales and margin last month for the Nordic business unit?
Without a semantic layer, the AI pulls data from different sources, each with its own definition of sales and margin. Some include internal transfers, others don’t. Some use invoiced sales, others use orders. The result is conflicting numbers, confusion, and a lack of trust in the answers.
With Naviloq’s semantic layer, sales always means invoiced sales, excluding internal transfers, with discounts applied consistently. Margin is calculated using the agreed business logic, always gross margin, with the same treatment of discounts and costs. The AI pulls harmonized, aligned data, so every answer is consistent and trustworthy.
Everyone from the CFO to business unit leaders sees the same, reliable numbers. Decisions are made with confidence, and reporting is seamless.
Our data platform brings this semantic layer to life. It connects, cleans, and harmonizes data from all your sources, so your business logic is consistent and scalable. This foundation means AI can work with your data in a way that is meaningful, reliable, and instantly usable.
AI-Ready by Design: No More Starting from Scratch
With Naviloq, you don’t need to start from scratch or invest in costly, custom AI projects. Our BI and Planning solutions always include a built-in data platform and semantic layer. You are already AI-ready, so adopting AI is a natural, safe next step, not a leap into the unknown.
What Does AI Mean in Practice? Our Roadmap to the AI Controller
AI isn’t just a buzzword for us. It is a practical, step-by-step journey toward empowering every user to make smarter decisions, faster. Our AI roadmap is designed to automate and enhance the everyday tasks that matter most in business performance management.
All these features are building toward our vision of the AI Controller. This digital partner actively manages business performance, surfaces what matters, explains anomalies, and guides decision-making. And because it is built on your existing data platform and semantic layer, you can trust its insights. No more guessing, no more conflicting answers.
What It Means for You
Roadmap Feature
Instantly explains charts and trends
AI Interpretation of Visualizations
Surface trends, anomalies, and opportunities
Generates concise, relevant updates
Provides context-rich narratives
Delivers automated analyses, on your schedule
Turns AI insights into ready-made presentations
Answers questions in plain language
Real Life Impact
No more manual digging. Understand business drivers at a glance during unit reviews and variance analysis.
Automated detection of risks and opportunities in management reporting and KPI tracking.
Effortless board and management tracking, free up hours of strategic work.
Immediate, actionable for performance reviews and business driver analysis.
Always prepared for meetings and reviews. No last minute scrambling.
AI Dashboard Analysis
Executive Summaries
AI Generated Stories and Insights
Schedule AI Analysis
Powerpoint Generation
Conversational AI
Instantly create board-ready slides. Eliminate manual presentation prep.
Ask questions and get instant, narrative answers. Just like talking to a colleague during ad hoc analysis or meetings.
From Data to Decisions: What Comes next?
The future of business performance management is not about more tools or features. It’s about solutions that deliver clarity, confidence, and real results. With Naviloq, you get an AI foundation built on a unified data platform and semantic layer, ensuring every insight is meaningful and every decision is backed by reliable information.
Don’t let your organization fall behind with generic, disconnected AI. Take the next step with a partner who understands your business and empowers you to lead with certainty.
Our vision for AI goes far beyond scheduled analyses and on-demand answers. In the future, AI will work alongside you like a true colleague—anticipating needs, proactively surfacing insights, and actively participating in planning and decision-making. Imagine an AI that doesn’t just respond to requests, but helps shape your business strategy, supports scenario planning, and guides you through uncertainty with the same intuition and expertise as your best team members.
Curious what an AI-ready foundation looks like for your business?
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