Partnerships are important to serving to our clients unlock the complete worth of the Databricks Information Intelligence Platform. Right this moment, hundreds of companions are a part of the Databricks ecosystem, starting from startups constructing on our platform, to software program distributors delivering joint options, to information suppliers bringing AI and information intelligence to life. Increasing and deepening this world companion community is important to driving buyer outcomes and real-world impression.
That’s why we’re thrilled to welcome Stephen Orban as SVP Product Ecosystem and Partnerships at Databricks. Stephen has a protracted historical past of serving to firms construct and scale profitable partnership applications, together with greater than a decade main cloud migration and companion applications at AWS and Google Cloud. At AWS, he invented and launched AWS Information Change, which now provides information from a whole bunch of suppliers. Since then, he’s grown each the AWS and Google Cloud Market by delivering dozens of improvements and distinctive, long-term partnerships with the world’s largest and fastest-growing expertise and information firms, together with Anthropic, Dun & Bradstreet, NVIDIA, Palo Alto Networks, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and extra.
Stephen will likely be instrumental in increasing our ecosystem to tens of hundreds of companions. He’ll even be concerned in our product improvement, making certain that our companions’ roadmap and strategic plans are aligned with our personal so we mutually develop and profit. Among the many speedy priorities are:
- Streamlining the method for brand new ISVs and information companions to listing and develop within the Databricks Market, finally making certain our clients have entry to what they should construct and scale information intelligence all through their organizations. We’ve had long-standing partnerships with industry-leading ISVs that we’re wanting to deepen, and we’re excited to convey on new companions that may additional lengthen the capabilities of the Information Intelligence Platform.
- Growing entry to extra third-party datasets that our clients can use to pair with their very own belongings to enhance the accuracy of information intelligence workloads. Whether or not it’s an enterprise’s provide chain information, monetary information from S&P International or geospatial information from Accuweather, we need to be sure that it’s all obtainable on the Information Intelligence Platform.
- Giving disruptive startups a launchpad to face out in a hyper-competitive market. The long run leaders in each {industry} will likely be constructed on information and AI, and make information intelligence integral to their operations. Our Constructed on Databricks startup program has already helped firms like Obsidian, Orby, Altana, and lots of extra.
These large targets require distinctive management, and that’s why I’m excited Stephen is becoming a member of the workforce. He brings a uncommon mix of technical and subject information, having began his profession practically 25 years in the past creating information and analytics capabilities for Bloomberg and Dow Jones, the place he served as a training engineer and CTO. Stephen additionally brings a deep understanding of enterprise information and AI workloads and approaches each problem by the lens of the shopper.
In his first few months, Stephen plans to fulfill with a minimum of 90 clients and 90 companions in 90 days to study what’s working nicely, and what we might be doing higher to unlock a world-class information supplier and ISV ecosystem and market. If you happen to’re , e-mail him at [email protected].
