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WHISHWORKS, a Systems Integration and Big Data specialist, today announced a partnership with Databricks, provider of the leading Unified Analytics Platform powered by Apache Spark™. As a partner of Databricks, WHISHWORKS will offer a fully managed Big Data analytics solution powered by Databricks’ Unified Analytics Platform.

As businesses in the UK and around the world gear up for digital transformation, they want to tap into big data to derive deeper insights and create new efficiencies, opportunities and competitive advantages. Databricks’ Unified Analytics Platform provides a simplified approach for data scientists and engineers to collaborate with business teams to meet their needs around big data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI).

“With the Unified Analytics Platform and WHISHWORKS’ strong pool of Big Data experts, we aim to reduce the challenges associated with AI adoption and deployment, and make this technology suitable for all businesses. Databricks’ cloud-based platform is powered by Apache Spark, the most popular open source technology for big data processing and machine learning workloads, and is an invention of the co-founders of Databricks,” said David Wyatt, VP and GM, EMEA at Databricks.

“Having helped many companies in the UK set up their Big Data environments, we will work with new and existing customers and enable them progress to the next level of growth by implementing data analytics use cases that drive business value. Databricks will be a perfect fit to our portfolio of Big Data solutions and we are confident that we will be providing our customers with one of the most open and secure platforms that they can use to achieve faster time-to- value from their data,” Suman Konkumalla, Chief Strategy Officer, WHISHWORKS.

  1. Cheaper, Faster… Riskier: Over Half Of Brits Plan To Use ChatGPT For Completing Their Tax Returns Read more
  2. WorkFusion Raises $45 Million in Funding to Fuel Growth for Agentic AI for Financial Crime Compliance Read more
  3. AI-Powered E-commerce, Stablecoins and Local APMs: Emerging Trends Headline EBANX’s Payments Summit in Mexico Read more
  4. Second Day of Money20/20 Middle East Unveils Next-Gen Solutions at the Region’s Largest Ever Fintech Gathering Read more
  5. United Gulf Financial Services Joins The Hashgraph Association and Exponential Science Foundation Adding $1M to Hedera Africa Hackathon Pool Prize Read more
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