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The Cognitive Command Center: Solving the Last Mile of AI in Asset Management

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Financial institutions are investing heavily in AI, but a critical challenge remains: turning intelligence into action across the fragmented reality of enterprise work.

At the 2026 Open Source Finance Forum in London, Vicky Sanders, Chief Digital Officer at HERE, explored how asset managers can solve this “last mile” of AI by creating a governed orchestration layer across applications, data, models and agents.

Watch the full session: The Cognitive Command Center: Solving the Last Mile of AI in Asset Management

The Last Mile of Enterprise AI

Asset managers are not short on AI investment. Models are becoming more capable, copilots are appearing across applications and agentic workflows are beginning to reshape research, portfolio management, operations and compliance.

But most enterprise environments remain fragmented.

A portfolio manager may move between research platforms, portfolio systems, market data, internal applications and communications tools throughout a single workflow. Each system holds only part of the context, while AI is often deployed inside individual applications as another disconnected experience.
The result is a gap between the intelligence firms are building and the experience reaching the user.

HERE Enterprise Browser Closes That Gap

HERE Enterprise Browser provides the governed workspace for bringing applications, AI and security together at the point of work.

Rather than forcing users into another AI destination, HERE enables intelligence to operate across the applications and workflows employees already use. The browser becomes an active enterprise layer that can connect context, surface the right intelligence and apply governance where users, applications and AI interact.

For financial institutions, this creates a foundation to:

  • Orchestrate across applications and workflows without requiring wholesale replacement of the existing technology stack
  • Bring the right model or agent into the right context, preserving flexibility across proprietary, open and internal AI
  • Connect enterprise data to AI securely, respecting permissions, policy and governance
  • Maintain human oversight of agentic workflows as AI begins to take action across systems
  • Apply security and control at the interaction layer, where users, applications, data and AI converge

From Enterprise Browser to Cognitive Command Center

This is the foundation of the Cognitive Command Center: an intelligent, governed environment capable of coordinating applications, data, models, agents and human decision-making across the enterprise desktop.

HERE Enterprise Browser provides the orchestration layer.
Instead of each copilot operating within a single application, intelligence can work across workflows. Instead of locking the user experience to one model or AI provider, firms can introduce the right capability for the right task. Instead of governance being added after deployment, controls can be embedded directly into the environment where work happens.

As agentic AI accelerates, this becomes increasingly important. Firms need to determine what an agent can access, which applications it can interact with, what actions it can take and when human approval is required.

HERE brings those interactions into a governed workspace designed for the complexity of the enterprise.

Building the AI-native Financial Services Firm

The next phase of AI in financial services will not be defined by another standalone copilot or a single winning model.
It will be defined by the ability to orchestrate intelligence across the enterprise.

HERE Enterprise Browser gives firms the foundation to do exactly that: connecting applications, AI, data and security in one governed workspace while preserving model choice, human control and the flexibility to evolve.

The models are here. The agents are multiplying. HERE solves the last mile between AI and work.