by Angela Guess

According to a new press release, “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).”

David Wyatt, VP and GM of EMEA at Databricks, commentedm, “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.”

Suman Konkumalla, Chief Strategy Officer at WHISHWORKS, added, “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.”

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