In episode 85 of the Acceleration Economy Minute, Kieron Allen discusses Databricks, which is on our Top 10 Shortlist of Data Modernization Enablers.
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Highlights
0:34 — Databricks Ventures, the investment arm of Databricks, has made a strategic investment in customer success platform Catalyst.
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0:51 — Kieron says this is Databricks’ first investment into customer success and growth technology and represents an interesting move for the company into the customer intelligence market.
1:05 — This investment is part of a deeper partnership between the two companies, and Catalyst will become further integrated with Databricks architecture. This will benefit the companies as well as their customers.
1:16 — Catalyst customers will be able to draw directly on Catalyst analytics on data stored in the Databricks Lakehouse data lake platform.
