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Data and AI company, Databricks has launched a Data and AI Academy for Queensland State Government agencies, designed to expedite data and AI training and enhance the capabilities of Australian public sector staff.

COMPANY NEWS: Informatica, a leader in enterprise cloud data management, today announced that it has been named the 2024 Data Integration Partner of the Year by Databricks. Presented at the annual Data + AI Summit, the award highlights Informatica's commitment to and success in delivering industry-leading, AI-powered, cloud-native data integration and data management at scale to Databricks customers. Over the past seven years, the Informatica and Databricks partnership has been one of joint innovation and has delivered transformative solutions to hundreds of enterprise customers.

COMPANY NEWS: Informatica,, an enterprise cloud data management leader, today announced an expanded partnership with Databricks with new product capabilities and offerings, bringing together the full range of Informatica’s AI-powered Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform capabilities within the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. The expanded partnership will enable customers to deploy enterprise-grade generative AI (genAI) applications at scale, based on a foundation of high-quality, trusted data and metadata.

Data and AI platform Databricks has announced its agreement to acquire data management company Tabular. This deal is particularly significant because of both what it means, and the people involved.

COMPANY NEWS: Data and AI company Databricks today announced it has agreed to acquire Tabular, a data management company founded by Ryan Blue, Daniel Weeks, and Jason Reid.

COMPANY NEWS: Informatica, an enterprise cloud data management leader, has continued its momentum to enhance and elevate a growing network of strategic partnerships with the launch of new, enhanced Databricks-validated Unity Catalog integrations.

COMPANY NEWS: Intel Granulate, Intel’s flagship software performance offering, today announced a new collaboration with Databricks to merge Intel Granulate’s autonomous, continuous optimisation solutions with Databricks’ robust Data Intelligence Platform under the Databricks Partner Program. Designed to help customers derive greater scalability, this collaboration intends to enhance performance, reduce costs and increase efficiency across data management operations.

Databricks has announced a raft of new and updated products, including the adoption of AI in various areas, new data federation capabilities, and a preview version of Delta Lake 3.0.

Database vendor MongoDB's Australian-developed MongoDB Relational Migrator is now generally available. The company made several other announcements at its developer conference, so please keep reading.

Data and AI specialist Databricks has announced new partners in its Delta Sharing ecosystem that allows live data to be securely shared from a lakehouse to any computing platform.

Major Australian bank Westpac has announced it will become one of six founding members forming a consortium of businesses promoting the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) within financial services.

Technology and design consultancy company Mantel Group has acquired consultancy Aginic, scaling its data offerings within Australia and New Zealand.

Data lakehouse pioneer Databricks has launched Databricks Lakehouse for Retail, its first industry-specific data lakehouse for retailers and consumer goods organisations.

Data and AI company Databricks has appointed Naveen Zutshi, as the company’s Chief Information Officer (CIO).

Bryan Campbell, data and analytics platform manager, Mercury NZ presented today at the Databricks Data and AI tour about the gentailer’s journey from costly data to an agile, versatile, objective-meeting data lakehouse.

Google Cloud and Databricks are working together to make the Databricks data platform available in containers on Google Cloud.

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Data integration and analytics provider Qlik has announced integration between its systems and Databricks' new SQL Analytics product.

Data and AI company Databricks has launched SQL Analytics, which allows workloads that would normally need a data warehouse to run on a data lake.

The lack of clarity as to what constitutes AI has contributed to skepticism regarding the reality of its delivery.