New Year, new partnerships! Telefónica Tech are excited to announce a new, strategic partnership with Databricks, the leader in unified analytics founded by the original creators of Apache Spark. This partnership will enable Telefónica Tech to bring Azure Databricks to our customers, making it easier for organisations to focus on their data, with a fully managed, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure that reduces operational complexity and total cost of ownership.

Since Microsoft announced Azure Databricks’ general availability in 2018, Telefónica Tech has championed the Apache Spark-based service, accelerating time to value and improving performance of modern data platform and AI solutions for clients, by combining the best of Databricks and Azure.

From data prep and engineering to experimentation and deployment of ML applications, Databricks provides a consolidated analytics platform to speed up innovation and productivity. Azure Databricks based solutions, delivered by Telefónica Tech, will enable customers to leverage their existing Microsoft investment in Azure.

Telefónica Tech works with organisations at various stages of their digital transformation.  Databricks is central to accelerating that transformation to deliver meaningful insights that drive organisations forward.

Telefónica Tech are immensely proud and excited to expand our partnership with Databricks, in collaboration with Microsoft.  This strategic partnership formalises our investment in the technology that is core to the modernisation of our client’s Big Data and AI challenges.

As a Databricks Systems Integration Premier Partner, Telefónica Tech can now access advanced training and gain early insight into future innovation plans. Our Databricks certified professionals will work closely with the Databricks experts, architects, engineers and sales resources to customise data roadmaps and strategies specific to our client’s environment and challenges. This collaboration will ensure success and efficiency for our customer’s data initiatives by adding scale, velocity and expertise to our team for even the biggest data challenges.

We are looking forward to working even more closely with Databricks in 2020!