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Databricks Announces 2024 Global Partner Awards

Sabina Shaikh
Roger Murff
by Sabina Shaikh and Roger Murff

June 10, 2024 in Company Blog

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The Databricks Partner Ecosystem, comprising over 3,800 partners worldwide, plays a pivotal role in building and delivering premier data and AI solutions globally. We take immense pride in our collaboration with these partners, acknowledging that the success of our joint customers stems from our shared dedication and investments in training, solution development, and ongoing field programs. Our partners leverage their expertise and experience to propel data teams toward success with the right software, services, and strategic consulting acumen.

The 2024 Databricks Partner Awards, presented at Data + AI Summit, span 39 categories and celebrate partners for their outstanding achievements and collaborative efforts with Databricks over the past year. These awards underscore the remarkable work accomplished in partnership with our ISV, Consulting, and System Integrator partners, who have contributed their profound industry knowledge, technological prowess, and impactful solutions to organizations worldwide.

Databricks Partner Awards

ISV Partner Awards

Please find the winners of each category below:

Consulting and System Integrator Global Awards

Consulting and System Integrator Impact Awards

Consulting and System Integrator Industry Awards

  • Financial Services Partner of the Year: EY
  • Healthcare and Life Sciences Partner of the Year: Slalom
  • Communications, Media and Entertainment Partner of the Year: Accenture
  • Manufacturing Partner of the Year: Capgemini
  • Public Sector Partner of the Year: Deloitte
  • Retail and Consumer Goods Partner of the Year: Tredence
  • Digital Native Partner of the Year: Aimpoint Digital

Consulting and System Integrator Partner Champions Awards

ISV Data Forward Awards

ISV Impact Awards

  • Customer Impact Partner of the Year: Plotly
  • Emerging Partner of the Year: Anomalo
  • Innovation Partner of the Year: Dataiku

ISV Data Partner Awards

Congratulations to all of our 2024 Global Partner Award Winners!

For additional information about each winner, continue reading:

Consulting and System Integrator Global Awards

Global Partner of the Year:

Consulting and System Integrator Global Awards

Together, Accenture and Avanade have been honored as the Global Partner of the Year for the sixth consecutive year. This award showcases both partners unparalleled impact on customer growth, technical expertise, and innovative solutions. Their collaboration enables clients worldwide to unlock data value and accelerate digital transformation using the Data Intelligence Platform. Through their innovative Brickbuilder Solutions, they continue to lead across all industries, setting new standards in the market.

 

AMER Partner of the Year:

Accenture

Accenture wins AMER Partner of the Year for its exceptional customer growth, joint engagements, and technical expertise across the Americas. By leveraging the Data Intelligence Platform, Accenture empowers customers to modernize their digital core and drive transformative outcomes.

 

AMER Emerging Business Partner of the Year:

Lovelytics

Lovelytics wins AMER Emerging Partner of the Year for driving exceptional customer growth, joint engagements, and technical expertise in the Americas Enterprise Emerging segment. Their innovative Databricks solutions enable customers to use data and AI to better their businesses.

 

APJ Partner of the Year:

Celebal Technologies

Celebal Technologies wins APJ Partner of the Year for driving exceptional customer growth, joint engagements, and technical expertise in the Asia Pacific Japan region. They leverage the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform Platform to help customers achieve scalability and performance in the age of data and AI.

 

APJ Emerging Business Partner of the Year:

Mantel Group

Mantel Group wins APJ Emerging Partner of the Year for driving exceptional customer growth, joint engagements, and technical expertise in the Asia Pacific Japan Emerging Enterprise segment.

 

EMEA Partner of the Year:

Capgemini

Capgemini wins EMEA Partner of the Year for driving exceptional customer growth, joint engagements, and technical expertise in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. They have also build Reliable AI Solution Engineering (RAISE) with Databricks, helping to industrialize GenAI at scale.

 

EMEA Emerging Business Partner of the Year:

DATAPAO

DATAPAO wins EMEA Emerging Partner of the Year for driving exceptional customer growth, joint engagements, and technical expertise in the Europe, Middle East and Africa Enterprise Emerging segment.

 

LATAM Partner of the Year:

BlueShift

BlueShift Brasil wins LATAM Partner of the Year for driving exceptional customer growth, joint engagements, and technical expertise in the Latin America region.

 

Congratulations to all of our 2024 Consulting and System Integrator Global Award Winners!

Consulting and System Integrator Impact Awards

Innovation Partner of the Year:

  • Wipro is recognized for integrating advanced AI solutions across various industries, enhancing operational efficiency, customer experience, and decision-making processes. These solutions leverage the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and strategic cloud partnerships to help clients transform their business operations.

  • Koantek is recognized for creating repeatable solutions that simplify, accelerate, and de-risk customers' GenAI projects. Koantek's GenAI capabilities have been instrumental in delivering innovative customer projects by leveraging advanced RAG architecture and LLMOps frameworks to enhance data integration, query accuracy, and user interaction across various use cases. These solutions have significantly improved decision-making, user experience, and operational efficiency for clients by providing context-aware chatbots, sophisticated querying, and real-time data scraping.

 

Transformation Partner of the Year:

  • Cognizant is recognized for driving exponential client value with Databricks. Their Cloud Migration Factory Brickbuilder Solution and Data Ingestion Framework for Spark help rewire businesses to realize AI's potential and accelerate our joint clients' modernization journeys.

  • LTIMindtree is recognized for driving transformative data and analytics initiatives for its clients across industries. By leveraging Databricks' cutting-edge solutions to build modern data platforms, data mesh architectures, and advanced analytics capabilities they help clients to enhance decision-making, operational efficiency, and customer experiences.

 

Disruption Partner of the Year:

  • Infosys wins a Disruption Partner of the Year award for creating solutions that harness the power of Databricks capabilities through AI/ML based processing, driven by the Infosys TOPAZ platform. These solutions enable clients to achieve significant cost savings, improved productivity, and better scalability.

  • EPAM wins a Disruption Partner of the Year award for designing and implementing a conversational interface powered by generative AI, state-of-the-art machine learning, and large language model frameworks. The solution enables advanced analytics, real-time decision making, and AI-driven actionable insights to bring their clients' to the next level of data and AI maturity.

 

Migration Partner of the Year:

  • Impetus is recognized for their second consecutive year for driving data estate modernization through their Brickbuilder Solution, LeapLogic. LeapLogic auto-transforms legacy ETL, data warehouse, analytics and Hadoop workloads to modern data infrastructure on Databricks. Customers who have leveraged the solution have seen an accelerated time-to-market, a reduction in risks, and major cost savings.

  • Tiger Analytics is recognized for successfully executing complex data migrations using the Databricks Migration tool. Their solutions and approach have significantly improved data access, security, and business insights for our joint clients.

 

Data & AI Governance Partner of the Year:

  • Celebal Technologies is recognized for migrating and modernizing data infrastructures, enhancing scalability, and improving operational efficiency through their data and AI governance solutions. Their Unity Launcher toolkit offers an automated, end-to-end Unity Catalog migration accelerator that speeds up the migration process by 70%.

  • Blueprint is recognized for driving successful Unity migrations and adoption using their Unity Catalog Migration Brickbuilder Solution. The solution helps clients unlock efficient data management and unleash the full potential of their data assets.

 

Congratulations to all of our 2024 Consulting and System Integrator Impact Award Winners!

Consulting and System Integrator Industry Leader Awards

Financial Services Partner of the Year:

EY

EY wins Financial Services Partner of the Year for the second consecutive year for driving innovation and digital transformation with financial services clients. They are helping redefine industry standards by establishing reusable patterns and code leveraging Databricks capabilities. Their solutions enable financial institutions to gain more insights from their data, improve operational efficiency and meet regulatory standards.

 

Healthcare and Life Sciences Partner of the Year:

Slalom

Slalom wins Health and Life Sciences Partner of the Year for driving lakehouse adoption and establishing Databricks as the backbone of its clients' underlying technology. With Databricks, they've enabled healthcare clients like CRISP to handle high-volume healthcare data efficiently, providing timely insights and improving data quality.

 

Communications, Media and Entertainment Partner of the Year:

Accenture

Accenture wins Communications, Media and Entertainment Partner of the Year for consistently transforming data and AI strategies for major telecom companies around the world. Their innovative data and AI solutions help deliver advanced business use cases that can be replicated across the entire industry.

 

Manufacturing Partner of the Year:

Capgemini

Capgemini wins Manufacturing Partner of the Year for leveraging Databricks to modernize data estates and drive significant operational efficiencies across the manufacturing industry. One of their solutions includes an AI based 'digital clone' that uses deep learning on streaming sensor data to provide real-time insights to enable faster response time for extruder operators to minimize the off-spec samples that result in revenue loss.

 

Public Sector Partner of the Year:

Deloitte

Deloitte wins Public Sector Partner of the Year for helping public sector agencies modernize their data platforms with data and AI. This includes their M-21-31 Cybersecurity solution, which allows organizations to navigate the changing cyber landscape more effectively while avoiding costly data storage and egress.

 

Retail and Consumer Goods Partner of the Year:

Tredence

Tredence wins Retail and Consumer Goods Partner of the Year for a third consecutive year. Their suite of retail accelerators utilize key features of the Data Intelligence Platform, including solutions for demand forecasting, inventory optimization, and customer experience enhancement. Through offerings like UnityGo! And the Supply Chain Command Center, Tredence successfully guides retailers on their data modernization journeys resulting in a "data first" enterprise.

 

Digital Native Partner of the Year:

Aimpoint Digital

Aimpoint Digital wins Digital Native Partner of the Year for delivering successful migrations and adoption of the lakehouse. Through their Lakehouse Onboarding Accelerator, Aimpoint Digital helps customers quickly stand-up a fully working Databricks workspace leveraging Unity Catalog along with a high-priority single-source use case that can serve as the template for scaling up analytics on Databricks.

 

Congratulations to all of our 2024 Consulting and System Integrator Industry Leader Award Winners!

Consulting and System Integrator Partner Champions

Partner Champions are the top technical evangelists in our consulting and system integrator partner community. This year, three Partner Champions were recognized for their excellent evangelism of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, through both customer implementations and community support. They are essential to driving Databricks adoption for our largest customers, standardizing on lakehouse across their practices' architectures, and developing strong Centers of Excellence.

Consulting and System Integrator Partner Champions

  • Mani Kandasamy from Deloitte: Mani is a senior technical leader at Deloitte, and one of the first Deloitte champions. He has played a key role in growing the Champions pool, mentoring Champion candidates, and advocating for Databricks through his thought leadership on data and analytics.
  • Makoto Ikejiri from Mitsui Knowledge Industry: Makoto has established a highly powerful sales engineering organization involving C-level and R&D of MKI just in the first year, which contains 10 certified technical engineers. Makoto has made a tremendous business impact and worked on multiple migration projects, driving significant consumption of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
  • Yash Mahendra Joshi from Accenture: Yash raises the bar for technical excellence covering both breadth and depth of the data and AI domain with Databricks and multiple enterprise platforms. He applies this to effectively engage across his peers and with joint customers alike. Yash has been instrumental in the development of Accenture's Center of Excellence and driving growth in Databricks accreditations.

ISV Data Forward Awards

AI Partner of the Year:

NVIDIA

NVIDIA wins AI Partner of the Year for its full-stack platform that accelerates AI workloads on Databricks. Databricks trained the DBRX LLM using thousands of NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs on NVIDIA DGX Cloud, an end-to-end AI platform for developers, setting a new, state-of-the-art standard for established community LLMs.

 

GenAI Partner of the Year:

LangChain

LangChain wins GenAI Partner of the Year for their intuitive software framework, which streamlines app development using LLMs. LangChain delights our joint customers by making it easy to create chatbots that can answer questions about data stored in the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

 

BI Partner of the Year:

Tableau

Tableau wins Business Intelligence Partner of the Year for the second consecutive year by making self-service analytics more accessible than ever on the Data Intelligence Platform. Tableau has leaned in on GTM initiatives, addressed key customer challenges by building the new Delta Sharing connector, and continues to drive demand for our joint marketing activities.

 

Data Integration Partner of the Year:

Informatica

Informatica wins Data Integration Partner of the Year for integrating their Intelligent Data Management Cloud and their PowerCenter Modernization Solution with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. These integrations are helping customers modernize their on-premises data warehouse to Databricks by migrating existing data and building new data pipelines to Databricks.

 

Data Governance Partner of the Year:

Collibra

Collibra wins Data Governance Partner of the Year for its commitment to the Data Intelligence Platform. Collibra delivers a full-stack data governance platform to extend Databricks Unity Catalog, allowing our joint customers to govern all parts of their lakehouse environment, from access control to data quality.

 

Developer Tools Partner of the Year:

Posit

Posit wins Developer Tools Partner of the Year for enhancing the productivity of data science teams by providing seamless access to Databricks' Data Intelligence Platform. Posit enables users to build, deploy, and share data products using R and Python more efficiently.

 

Built on Partner of the Year:

Atlassian

Atlassian wins Built on Partner of the Year for building an app on Delta Lake and Unity Catalog with native support for Delta Sharing, helping customers seamlessly share data with the Atlassian data lake.

 

Congratulations to all of our 2024 ISV Data Forward Award Winners!

ISV Impact Awards

Customer Impact Partner of the Year:

Plotly

Plotly wins Customer Impact Partner of the Year for achieving significant growth in mutual customers and communicating the value via impactful customer stories. Their innovative integrations with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and effective storytelling via case studies showcase their ability to streamline data processes, reduce costs, and accelerate time to value for customers.

 

Emerging Partner of the Year:

Anomalo

Anomalo wins Emerging Partner of the Year for quickly aligning with the Databricks field for effective Data Intelligence Platform deployments, and securing major joint customers. On the product side, Anomalo consistently innovates on the capabilities of Unity Catalog, pushing data quality checks into the Unity Catalog UI.

 

Innovation Partner of the Year:

Dataiku

Dataiku wins Innovation Partner of the Year for making AI accessible to all users, not just the tech-savvy. Dataiku's integrations with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform empower both business and technical users to easily collaborate on AI projects, accelerating AI adoption and driving innovation and business value.

 

Congratulations to all of our 2024 ISV Impact Award Winners!

ISV Data Partner Awards

Growth Data Partner of the Year:

John Snow Labs

John Snow Labs wins Growth Data Partner of the Year for pioneering the integration of AI models on the Databricks Marketplace and contributing valuable open source enhancements to MLflow. John Snow Labs has driven over a dozen Solution Accelerators with impactful Healthcare NLP solutions, including a medical chatbot.

 

Data Provider Partner of the Year:

Shutterstock

Shutterstock wins Data Provider Partner of the Year for its innovative GenAI use cases alongside Databricks and distributing image data on the Databricks Marketplace to power collaboration within the ecosystem. These data products support a wide variety of use cases, including machine learning models with generative capabilities.

 

Financial Services Partner of the Year:

Corelogic

Corelogic wins Financial Services Partner of the Year for enhancing the productivity of FSI and real estate teams by providing seamless access to their data and analytics on Databricks. Corelogic has engaged in significant GTM efforts and continues to drive cutting-edge adoption for AI and advanced analytics use cases within the Data Intelligence Platform.

 

Healthcare and Life Sciences Partner of the Year:

Definitive Healthcare

Definitive Healthcare wins Healthcare and Life Sciences Partner of the Year for its commitment to the Data Intelligence Platform and driving collaboration within the Databricks ecosystem. Definitive Healthcare delivers actionable data intelligence, allowing our joint customers to accelerate time to insight across various HLS use cases.

 

Communications, Media, and Entertainment Partner of the Year:

Amperity

Amperity wins Communications, Media and Entertainment Partner of the Year for delivering exceptional solutions tailored to our key clientele with marketing and consumer engagement use cases. Amperity seamlessly integrates with Databricks without the need for complex pipelines or data duplication, delivering a cost-efficient, time-effective service to our CME Customers that helps them provide more return on their investment in Databricks.

 

Retail and Consumer Goods Partner of the Year:

Accuweather

Accuweather wins Retail and Consumer Goods Partner of the Year for their commitment to driving collaboration and actionable insights within the Databricks ecosystem. By leveraging over 170 forecast models worldwide, AccuWeather helps improve performance, minimize risk, and drive efficiency across critical Retail and CPG use cases.

 

Congratulations to all of our 2024 ISV Data Partner Award Winners!

 

Thank you to our entire community of over 3,800 partners. We look forward to even more engagement, collaboration and growth together in the new year. To learn more about the Databricks partner ecosystem, click here.

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