Databricks, the Data and AI company and pioneer of the data lakehouse paradigm, increases its investment in its growing partner ecosystem as more customers adopt the lakehouse.
Databricks is announcing the debut of Brickbuilder Solutions: data and AI solutions expertly designed by leading consulting partners to address industry-specific business requirements on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform.
As part of the launch, Databricks has partnered with industry leaders like Avanade, Deloitte, Lovelytics and Tredence to jointly develop and implement a suite of solutions that help customers solve their analytics challenges, adopt more agile processes, and break into new revenue streams.
From demand forecasting and revenue growth management solutions to value-at-risk data models and AI-powered recommendation engines, 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.
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 thriving partners,” 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 to 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:
- The launch of Databricks Ventures and the Lakehouse Fund has invested in companies like Arcion (Blitzz), dbt Labs, Hunters.ai, Labelbox, and TickSmith, extending or using the lakehouse ecosystem and architecture to create and empower the next generation of data and AI-powered companies.
- The introduction of Partner Connect to help customers quickly discover a broad set of validated data, analytics, and AI tools from leading ISV partners like Fivetran, Labelbox, Microsoft Power BI, Prophecy, Rivery and Tableau and easily integrate them with their Databricks lakehouse across multiple cloud providers.
