Partnerships are important to serving to our prospects unlock the total worth of the Databricks Knowledge Intelligence Platform. Right this moment, 1000’s 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 accomplice 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 an extended historical past of serving to firms construct and scale profitable partnership applications, together with greater than a decade main cloud migration and accomplice applications at AWS and Google Cloud. At AWS, he invented and launched AWS Knowledge Trade, which now provides information from a whole lot 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 firms, together with Anthropic, Dun & Bradstreet, NVIDIA, Palo Alto Networks, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and extra.
Stephen can be instrumental in increasing our ecosystem to tens of 1000’s of companions. He’ll even be concerned in our product improvement, 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 spanking new ISVs and information companions to checklist and develop within the Databricks Market, finally guaranteeing our prospects 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 desirous to deepen, and we’re excited to carry on new companions that may additional lengthen the capabilities of the Knowledge Intelligence Platform.
- Growing entry to extra third-party datasets that our prospects can use to pair with their very own property to enhance the accuracy of knowledge intelligence workloads. Whether or not it’s an enterprise’s provide chain information, monetary information from S&P World or geospatial information from Accuweather, we need to be sure that it’s all accessible on the Knowledge Intelligence Platform.
- Giving disruptive startups a launchpad to face out in a hyper-competitive market. The longer term leaders in each {industry} can 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 massive objectives require distinctive management, and that’s why I’m excited Stephen is becoming a member of the crew. He brings a uncommon mix of technical and area data, 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 practising 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 satisfy with at the very least 90 prospects and 90 companions in 90 days to study what’s working properly, and what we will be doing higher to unlock a world-class information supplier and ISV ecosystem and market. For those who’re , e mail him at [email protected].