As more clients adopt the lakehouse, Databricks, the data and AI startup that pioneered the data lakehouse model, is boosting its investment in its growing partner ecosystem. On the Databricks Lakehouse Platform, Databricks is introducing Brickbuilder Solutions, which are data and AI solutions skillfully created by leading consulting partners to answer industry-specific business objectives.
Databricks has worked with industry heavyweights including Avanade, Deloitte, Lovelytics, and Tredence as part of the launch to collaboratively create and execute a set of solutions that assist customers in solving business analytics difficulties, adopt more agile processes, and break into new revenue streams. These Brickbuilder Solutions combine the power of the Databricks Lakehouse Platform with the proven experience of partners to accelerate data and AI use cases for organisations across every industry. They range from demand forecasting and revenue growth management solutions to value-at-risk data models and AI-powered recommendation engines.
Looking ahead, Databricks will continue to build industry-specific lakehouses. The added investment in industry innovation is a key focus area for Kori O’Brien, SVP of Global Consulting and SI Partners who joined the company last year from Salesforce, where she spent a decade building and leading a robust global partner organisation and most recently served as the SVP of Alliances and Partner Sales.
“Databricks is pioneering the lakehouse category and has an incredible opportunity to build and shape an ecosystem for partners to thrive,” said Kori O’Brien, SVP of Global Consulting and SI Partners at Databricks. “We’re excited to double-down on our partner initiatives this year, as they are a critical force in helping customers derive value from data and AI. These efforts include expanding our global partner team and investing in infrastructure and training programs that will deliver a best-in-class experience for our rapidly expanding partner organisation.”
Andy Kofoid, President of Global Field Operations at Databricks, added, "Partners play an integral role in expanding and scaling Databricks' go-to-market function and bringing the power of the lakehouse to more customers around the world."
Brickbuilder Solutions is one of several ways in which Databricks is enabling and accelerating an ecosystem around its Lakehouse Platform recently, including:
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Databricks Ventures and the Lakehouse Fund were launched, with investments in startups including Arcion (Blitzz), dbt Labs, Hunters.ai, Labelbox, and TickSmith that are expanding or utilising the lakehouse ecosystem and architecture to create and empower the next generation of data and AI-powered organisations.
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The launch of Partner Connect, which allows customers to quickly discover and easily integrate a wide range of validated data, analytics, and AI tools from leading ISV partners such as Fivetran, Labelbox, Microsoft Power BI, Prophecy, Rivery, and Tableau with their Databricks lakehouse across multiple cloud providers.
Extending the power of Databricks’ Lakehouse Platform and delivering deeper functionality for customers with Brickbuilder Solutions
“Along with Databricks, we have combined the significant investments and strengths of both companies to meet and support client demand through industry solutions. We have jointly released customer personalisation accelerators and low risk enterprise Hadoop migration to accelerate business results for Financial Services clients. Most recently, we worked closely with Databricks to develop Risk Management for Financial Services, a suite of lakehouse solutions covering regulatory, financial and business risk solutions,” said Alan Grogan, Executive Lead, Data Platform Modernization at Avanade.
“Our clients are looking to simplify data and analytics architectures as they unlock business value through the power of cloud and AI technologies,” said Maulik Shah, Databricks Alliance Leader, and Managing Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP. “Our clients are taking an AI-first approach to migrating and modernising legacy data platforms to the cloud – in addition to the traditional BI and SQL use-cases, they are architecting for forward-looking use-cases, such as real-time, data sharing and interop, AI/ML, and multi-cloud, to achieve long-term and sustainable business value.”
Francisco Barroso, Analytics & Cognitive Offering Leader, and Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP, added, “Deloitte’s deep industry and client experiences across the commercial and public sectors, as well as our experience building integrated, secure, and multi-cloud ready solutions on top of the Databricks Lakehouse Platform, has been a game changer for our clients. Now, they are able to focus on critical shifts in their business, assess data- and AI-driven insights, and see significant improvement in both top- and bottom-line performance – all at a faster pace, with higher quality, and with lower costs. We are excited about the continued collaboration with Databricks and continue to invest heavily and relentlessly in innovations for our joint clients.”
As more companies adopt the data lakehouse paradigm, they will be able to confidently implement powerful data solutions and services that are tailored to the lakehouse and backed by world-class consulting partners with deep technical expertise and implementation experience with the modern data stack and Databricks' platform.
