Partnerships are important to serving to our clients unlock the total worth of the Databricks Information Intelligence Platform. Right now, 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 international companion community is vital to driving buyer outcomes and real-world affect.
That’s why we’re thrilled to welcome Stephen Orban as SVP Product Ecosystem and Partnerships at Databricks. Stephen has an extended historical past of serving to corporations construct and scale profitable partnership packages, together with greater than a decade main cloud migration and companion packages at AWS and Google Cloud. At AWS, he invented and launched AWS Information Trade, which now gives information from tons of 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 know-how and information corporations, 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 growth, guaranteeing that our companions’ roadmap and strategic plans are aligned with our personal so we mutually develop and profit. Among the many rapid priorities are:
- Streamlining the method for brand new ISVs and information companions to record and develop within the Databricks Market, finally guaranteeing 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 desperate to deepen, and we’re excited to carry 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 knowledge 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 wish to be certain 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 corporations 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 staff. He brings a uncommon mix of technical and subject information, having began his profession almost 25 years in the past growing 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 way of the lens of the shopper.
In his first few months, Stephen plans to satisfy with at the very least 90 clients and 90 companions in 90 days to study what’s working effectively, and what we might be doing higher to unlock a world-class information supplier and ISV ecosystem and market. When you’re , electronic mail him at [email protected].
