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Databricks Launches Data Lakehouse for Retail and Consumer Goods Customers
"As the retail and healthcare industries continue to undergo transformative change, Walgreens has embraced a modern, collaborative data platform that provides a competitive edge to the business and, most importantly, equips our pharmacists and technicians with timely, accurate patient insights for better healthcare outcomes," said Luigi Guadagno , Vice President, Pharmacy and HealthCare Platform Technology at Walgreens. "With hundreds of millions of prescriptions processed by Walgreens each year, Databricks' Lakehouse for Retail allows us to unify all of this data and store it in one place for a full range of analytics and ML workloads. By eliminating complex and costly legacy data silos, we've enabled cross-domain collaboration with an intelligent, unified data platform that gives us the flexibility to adapt, scale and better serve our customers and patients."
"Databricks has always innovated on behalf of our customers and the vision of lakehouse helps solve many of the challenges retail organizations have told us they're facing," said Ali Ghodsi , CEO and Co-Founder at Databricks. "This is an important milestone on our journey to help organizations operate in real-time, deliver more accurate analysis, and leverage all of their customer data to uncover valuable insights. Lakehouse for Retail will empower data-driven collaboration and sharing across businesses and partners in the retail industry."
Databricks' Lakehouse for Retail delivers an open, flexible data platform, data collaboration and sharing, and a collection of powerful tools and partners for the retail and consumer goods industries. Designed to jumpstart the analytics process, new Lakehouse for Retail Solution Accelerators offer a blueprint of data analytics and machine learning use cases and best practices to save weeks or months of development time for an organization's data engineers and data scientists. Popular solution accelerators for Databricks' Lakehouse for Retail customers include:
Additionally, industry-leading Databricks partners like Deloitte and Tredence are driving lakehouse vision and value by delivering pre-built analytics solutions on the lakehouse platform that address real-time customer use cases. Tailor-made for the retail industry, featured partner solutions and platforms include:
For more information, visit the Databricks for Retail and Consumer Goods homepage .
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 5,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, H&M, and over 40% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform to unify their data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco , with offices around the globe. Founded by the original creators of Apache Spark™,
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84.51° continues to advance our data science capabilities by working with thousands of consumer-packaged goods companies every day that are looking for new ways to interact with our data and science. The Retail Lakehouse will help bring our products and data closer to our customers and partners, driving better collaboration than ever. We see this as a competitive advantage for 84.51°.
Nick Hamilton , VP Engineering, 84.51°
One of the biggest challenges in Retail today is the volatility in the supply chain. Acosta is invested in AI to help us improve our analytics in the supply chain, but we need to match that with better coordination with our partners. The Retail Lakehouse excites us because the open data sharing will enable us to collaborate with partners of all sizes to drive better execution.
Chad Pester , VP, Data & Analytics,
Acosta Sales and Marketing
Gousto is a rapidly growing direct-to-consumer brand that provides our customers with the ability to make weekly choices from over 60 recipes on our menu that change each week, many of which can be customized. Enabling that level of flexibility for consumers requires the coordination of a complex supply chain, from locally sourced ingredients to delivery partners who ensure the freshness of ingredients. The Retail Lakehouse enables Gousto to deliver on that promise to customers by enabling real-time visibility and collaboration across our supply chain and delivery.
Robert Barham , Director of Data at recipe box company, Gousto
The past few years have seen unprecedented changes in how consumers shop. Wehkamp was one of the Internet's first e-commerce retailers, but the rate of change in consumer behavior has been remarkable. The Retail Lakehouse provides Wehkamp with the agility to monitor and quickly respond to these changes, and ensure that we're always delivering the most personalized experience for each customer.
Jesse Bouwman , Data Scientist, Wehkamp
"With Databricks, Tredence expects to meet the explosive enterprise demand for AI/ML and help navigate complex data ecosystems, monetize enterprise data, improve time to insights, and maximize ROI. The partnership launched the On-Shelf Availability Solution (OSA) accelerator in August 2021 , combining Databricks' data processing capabilities and Tredence's AI/ML expertise to help Retail, CPG & Manufacturers solve the trillion dollar out-of-stock challenge. Now with Lakehouse for Retail, we expect to jointly help enterprises effectively manage current growth barriers, future disruptions and drive global scale together."
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