David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

APRIL 23, 2025

With this in mind, one significant announcement at the event was the broader partnership with Databricks to enhance AI-enabled supply chain orchestration. See the recent Analyst Perspective on Databricks by my colleague, Dave Menninger.) Data is the foundation for successful use of everything related to AI.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MAY 8, 2025

The transition of Informaticas customer base to the cloud is anticipated to accelerate through enhanced functionality to support the development of AI workloads and partnerships with the likes of AWS, Databricks, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud and Snowflake. Informatica is still closely associated with data integration.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 28, 2022

With Snowflake’s proprietary cloud data warehouse at its heart, the Retail Data Cloud brings together Snowflake’s highly-scalable data warehousing, analytics and compliance tools, with access to third-party data sources and resources through a data marketplace, and various partner consulting services from the likes of Capgemini and Infosys.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 12, 2024

As part of its transformation, UK Power Networks partnered with Databricks, Tata Consulting Services, Moringa Partners, and others to not only manage the cloud migration but also help integrate IoT devices and smart meters to deliver highly granular, real-time analytics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 5, 2024

Less than half of organizations have a coherent data management process in place before they launch AI projects, say IT leaders at Databricks and Astera Software, both in the data management space. And data doesn’t come only from internal users; most organizations are constantly receiving data from partners, suppliers, and other sources.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

Streamlining third-party data connections Dubbed the Zero Copy Partner Network, the new ecosystem brings together ISVs and SIs in an effort to get rid of the custom integrations and complex data pipelines previously required to integrate and move data from Salesforce to external data warehouses and vice versa.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2022

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Alation

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This round was led by Thoma Bravo, Sanabil Investments, and Costanoa Ventures, with participation from new strategic partner Databricks Ventures. To get the story, I interviewed three investors: Robert (Tre) Sayle from Thoma Bravo, Greg Sands from Costanoa, and Andrew Ferguson from Databricks Ventures. Source: Irving Investors.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

The partnerships, announced this week at the annual Informatica World conference, boost the capabilities of the company’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) and are in sync with the company’s recent data management product releases and previous partnerships with cloud software and service providers including AWS, Databricks and Snowflake.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 27, 2022

The partnerships, announced this week at the annual Informatica World conference, boost the capabilities of the company’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) and are in sync with the company’s recent data management product releases and previous partnerships with cloud software and service providers including AWS, Databricks and Snowflake.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Blending analytics and AI Since taking over, Kanioura has applied the expertise she developed as chief analytics and AI officer at Accenture to advance PepsiCo’s data infrastructure, a strategy that includes building out a data lake and AI capabilities with partners such as Microsoft and Databricks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Sarah Rench, global data, AI & security director & Databricks lead at Avanade, explains it this way : “Whatever your use of generative AI…ensuring it is secure and meets your privacy and compliance regulations is crucial to using it successfully. Here, working with partners like Avanade pays dividends.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 14, 2024

Private cloud providers may be among the key beneficiaries of today’s generative AI gold rush as, once seemingly passé in favor of public cloud, CIOs are giving private clouds — either on-premises or hosted by a partner — a second look. The excitement and related fears surrounding AI only reinforces the need for private clouds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

You can collaborate on these sets, so partners like Collibra, Databricks, Google BigQuery, DataRobot, Confluent can help you utilize that fabric in a way that’s most meaningful in the context they have.” It enables the business data fabric, where data is managed according to the meaning of data,” said Chirapurath.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

An early partner of Amazon, the Roseburg, N.J.-based Tiliakos, principal analyst and managing partner of 3Sixty Insights, speaking to CIO.com from an ADP conference in London in early February. While AWS remains a primary partner, Nagrath emphasizes ADP’s use of a range of vendors’ tools to achieve best outcomes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 5, 2022

Direct supply chains have experienced challenges, and so have extended supply chain partners such as third-party and fourth-party vendors — the suppliers of suppliers,” the firm says. As consulting firm Deloitte notes, the free movement and operation of people, raw materials, finished goods, and factory operations have been stymied.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Afterwards, we spent some more time discussing the changing role of the CIO, the story he’s writing around data and AI, how he gets the most from his strategic vendor partner relationships, and more. Not every vendor partner is going to do that, but the ones that do have that long-lasting relationship. It’s like a trifecta kind of win.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 12, 2024

To help alleviate the complexity and extract insights, the foundation, using different AI models, is building an analytics layer on top of this database, having partnered with DataBricks and DataRobot. It’s in a mixture of structured and unstructured formats.” The generative AI is filling in data gaps,” she says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 5, 2024

From 2015 to 2019, Statcast consisted of a combination of camera and radar systems, and in 2020, MLB partnered with Hawk-Eye Innovations to provide optical tracking systems. The analytics team started shifting its operations from on-premises systems to the cloud, leveraging Apache Spark and Databricks.

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Timo Elliott

MAY 22, 2023

SAP Business Network helps turn those fragmented supply chains into collaborative sustainable networks, and there was a glimpse of an interface letting companies see sustainability of the entire supply chain, with information from partner EcoVadis. We truly believe in the democratization of data,” he said.

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Cloudera

MARCH 3, 2023

based nVizhen, a data consulting firm, I became a Cloudera partner. Snowflake and Databricks can’t get me close. Would I earn an ounce of credibility if you knew that I was previously a Cloudera customer before I became a Clouderan? When I joined L.A.-based I witnessed first-hand the power CDP wielded across multiple industries.

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Alation

JUNE 23, 2023

That’s going to be the view at the highly anticipated gathering of the global data, analytics, and AI community — Databricks Data + AI Summit — when it makes its grand return to San Francisco from June 26–29. Attending Databricks Data+AI Summit? Attending Databricks Data+AI Summit? Register for Databricks Data+AI Summit here!

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 6, 2023

Rival cloud service providers such as Microsoft and Google have also partnered with Nvidia to take advantage of its DGX Cloud — a service based on the technology that also powers OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The service also comes with Nvidia’s foundation models, such as BioNeMo and Nvidia Picasso, along with AI training and governance frameworks.

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Alation

APRIL 4, 2023

Alation delivers extended connectivity for Databricks Unity Catalog , the lakehouse company, and new connectivity for dbt Cloud by dbt Labs , the pioneer in analytics engineering. This expanded connector to Databricks Unity Catalog does just that, delivering to joint customers a comprehensive view of all cloud data.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The State of the Cloud 2022 report by Bessemer Venture Partners offers an explanation. This June, Snowflake recognized Alation as its data governance partner of the year for the second year in a row, and Eckerson , IDC , BARC , Dresner , and Constellation all released reports just this summer naming Alation a data catalog leader.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 12, 2022

The team also built a centralized data lake on AWS, Databricks, and Power BI. One key to Northstar’s success was Stevens’ decision to partner with professional services firm Genpact, which helped Thermo Fisher create process maps down to the click level. Catalyzing change.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

This is a very hot topic,” says Eric Vandevelde, AI co-chair and partner at the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Data vendors like Snowflake and Databricks, which historically have focused on helping companies with the privacy, residency, and other compliance implications of data management, are also getting into the gen AI space.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2024

To complete the project, five or six Sun Country IT pros wrote.NET middleware on Azure, hooking into Databricks AI machine learning models that issue the voucher emails, which in turn connect via APIs to partner services, such as Uber for local travel. We were already in the cloud, set up a data lake and Databricks was up and running.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2023

Pivoting to tech provider JLL’s move to develop facilities management software is part of an expanded business model that has enabled the company to perform well in tough times, says Morin, who is employing a hybrid strategy for software development in which JLL Technologies will both build in-house and partner with other SaaS vendors.

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Cloudera

JUNE 1, 2021

Everyone from Snowflake and DataBricks to Google and Microsoft claim to have one, but the truth is that we are leading the way in the hybrid data cloud space. Cloudera has agreed to partner with CD&R and KKR who share our vision and values to turn the page to a new chapter of growth and innovation. Hybrid cloud matters. What a day.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2023

There are already 14 LLMs that aren’t ChatGPT , and if you have large data sets, you can customize a proprietary LLM using platforms such as Databricks Dolly , Meta Llama , and OpenAI — or build your own LLM from scratch. Customizing and developing LLMs requires a strong business case, technical expertise, and funding.

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Cloudera

APRIL 1, 2024

This recognition is a testament to our vision and ability as a strategic partner to deliver an open and interoperable Cloud data platform, with the flexibility to use the best fit data services and low code, no code Generative AI infused practitioner tools.

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Alation

JANUARY 11, 2023

We are excited to announce the new Partner Program for Open Connector Framework. The purpose of this program is to build a network of development partners to accelerate the development of connectors that expand the reach of Alation’s data intelligence platform. Leveraging partner expertise. Scaling for success.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2023

SAP is also opening it up to partners to add new functionality and make it easier to access data from other platforms through Datasphere. “We Partner agreements Four partners are signed up to offer Datasphere integrations at launch. But we’ll also use our new data ecosystem participants.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Microsoft, Databricks, and others sent in experts a month ahead of time to upskill Generac’s workforce. Tim recruited partners to support the hackathon, yes, but what made the difference was Tim’s push to give employees the chance to innovate with what they had. There may also be significant change agents in your broader ecosystem.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 28, 2023

This is the second post of a three-part series detailing how Novo Nordisk , a large pharmaceutical enterprise, partnered with AWS Professional Services to build a scalable and secure data and analytics platform. The workflow steps are as follows: A user accesses an analytical service such as Databricks in the Novo Nordisk analytics hub.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An overriding issue, though, is that most organizations don’t have a plan, says Nayur Khan, a partner at McKinsey & Company. Companies like Dataku, DataRobot, and Databricks all have retooled to support LLMOps or GenAIOps. They try to do something and see what sticks.” But MLOps platforms vendors are stepping up, he says.

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