{"id":1040,"date":"2023-07-20T14:02:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T14:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bandittracker.com\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2023-08-25T10:45:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T10:45:05","slug":"who-uses-databricks-major-customers-explored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bandittracker.com\/who-uses-databricks-major-customers-explored\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Uses Databricks? (Major Customers Explored)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In today&#8217;s fast-evolving technological landscape, data has been coined as the new oil. Databricks is a powerful data analytics platform at the heart of this data revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may be wondering if this new platform has already been adopted by large well-known companies. The answer is an indisputable yes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article looks at its far-reaching impact across various sectors. I\u2019ve focused on the finance, health, and media industries. But the companies I list are just a sample of the household brands that are using Databricks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_65 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-662527934fafc\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-662527934fafc\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/bandittracker.com\/who-uses-databricks-major-customers-explored\/#Financial_Services\" title=\"Financial Services\">Financial Services<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/bandittracker.com\/who-uses-databricks-major-customers-explored\/#Healthcare_and_Biotechnology\" title=\"Healthcare and Biotechnology\">Healthcare and Biotechnology<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/bandittracker.com\/who-uses-databricks-major-customers-explored\/#Media_Customers\" title=\"Media Customers\">Media Customers<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/bandittracker.com\/who-uses-databricks-major-customers-explored\/#Summary\" title=\"Summary\">Summary<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Financial_Services\"><\/span>Financial Services<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Coins.ph is the leading crypto-based company in the Phillippines with over sixteen million users. It allows customers to buy and sell cryptocurrencies as well as accessing various financial services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a digital payment platform, the company is obliged to prove to the state regulators that they have adequate fraud and money laundering detection measures in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before their move to Databricks, they used an analytics system based on EMR (a Hadoop platform provided by Amazon). However, it was creaking at the seams when faced with the rising volume of data to process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/bandittracker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Apache-Hadoop-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bandittracker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Apache-Hadoop-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/bandittracker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Apache-Hadoop-1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They had day-to-day issues with ETL loads and trouble-shooting the highly technical cluster management systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Databricks allowed them to unify their diverse set of data streams onto a single platform that could cope with the scale. The data is fed downstream to ML-powered models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some other financial services companies that are customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td>ABN Amro<\/td><td>Banco General<\/td><td>Credit Suisse<\/td><td>Deloitte<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Dun &amp; Bradstreet<\/td><td>Experian<\/td><td>HSBC<\/td><td>Nasdaq<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Northwestern Mutual<\/td><td>Standard Chartered<\/td><td>Zurich<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Healthcare_and_Biotechnology\"><\/span>Healthcare and Biotechnology<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Amgen is a biotechnology giant that processes huge amounts of biological and chemical data to explore new medicines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By increasing the data ingestion rates and reducing compute costs, they made up to $10 million in cost savings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some more health and life sciences companies that use Databricks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/bandittracker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/databricks.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bandittracker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/databricks.jpg 600w, https:\/\/bandittracker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/databricks-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td>AstraZeneca<\/td><td>Bayer<\/td><td>Biogen<\/td><td>Bupa<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>GSK<\/td><td>Johnson&amp;Johnson<\/td><td>Merck<\/td><td>Providence<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Siemens<\/td><td>ThermoFisher<\/td><td>Walgreens<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Media_Customers\"><\/span>Media Customers<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Comcast has been around forever, but that hasn\u2019t stopped them from adopting new technologies like Databricks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They loaded their massive amounts of current and historical data into a Delta lake and built new analytics insights based on machine learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some more media giants that use Databricks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td>AT&amp;T<\/td><td>CBC Radio-Canda<\/td><td>Conde Nast<\/td><td>Discovery<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Dolby<\/td><td>HBO Max<\/td><td>ITV<\/td><td>Paramount<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Showtime<\/td><td>Viacom<\/td><td>Warner Bros<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Summary\"><\/span>Summary<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Databricks has grown significantly since<a href=\"https:\/\/bandittracker.com\/who-created-databricks\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"988\"> it was founded in 2013<\/a>. The growing list of customers is impressive, and many are well-known brands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we move forward, the value and significance of data will continue to escalate, further embedding data analytics and AI into the core of business operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The question, &#8220;Who uses Databricks?&#8221; may soon shift to &#8220;Who isn&#8217;t using Databricks?&#8221; as organizations around the globe recognize and leverage the immense potential that this platform has to offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s fast-evolving technological landscape, data has been coined as the new oil. Databricks is a powerful data analytics platform at the heart of this data revolution. You may be wondering if this new platform has already been adopted by large well-known companies. The answer is an indisputable yes! This article looks at its far-reaching &#8230; <a title=\"Who Uses Databricks? 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