EY recognized as the 2023 Databricks Financial Services Partner of the Year

• The EY organization is acknowledged for helping clients achieve business goals through data-driven technology, consulting and training solutions

The EY organization announces that it has been named as the 2023 Databricks Financial Services Partner of the Year during the annual Data + AI Summit. This award recognizes the EY–Databricks Alliance’s commitment to leveraging the Databricks Lakehouse Platform, an open unified platform that combines the leading qualities of data lakes and data warehouses to drive innovation, and helping financial services clients accelerate their digital transformation journeys.

Through the EY–Databricks Alliance, the EY organization helps clients unlock potential data to drive business outcome and innovation. A mutual commitment to and investment in lakehouse training, solution development and ongoing field programs is helping organizations globally to leverage value from data to address business problems and identify new use cases.

Matthias Loh, EY Americas Financial Services Technology Consulting Leader, says:

“Receiving the Databricks Financial Services Partner of the Year Award is a tremendous honor and a testament to EY teams’ leadership, dedication and experience. This recognition reinforces the trust that underpins the EY–Databricks Alliance and an ambition to help financial services organizations navigate the rapidly changing data and analytics landscape to maximize opportunity and best serve their stakeholders. I am proud to stand alongside an impressive group of leaders whose insight, sector experience and vision are driving game-changing innovation."

Sabina Shaikh, Vice President, Global System Integrators at Databricks, says:

"We are excited to recognize EY as our Financial Services Partner of the Year for their contributions in helping large global financial customers migrate to the lakehouse platform. We look forward to continuing to collaborate with EY to accelerate success for our joint clients with the right mix of software, services and strategic consulting experience.”

For more information on the EY–Databricks Alliance, visit ey.com/alliances.

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