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Databricks Launches Data Intelligence Platform for Energy, Bringing Generative AI Capabilities to the Energy Sector


New Databricks offering provides pre-built accelerators, marketplace solutions, and an ecosystem of partner capabilities tailored to organizations across the energy industry

SAN FRANCISCO, April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced the Data Intelligence Platform for Energy, a unified platform bringing the power of AI to data and people across the energy sector. Built on an open lakehouse architecture, Databricks' Data Intelligence Platform for Energy enables enterprises to harness vast streams of energy data and develop generative AI applications without sacrificing data privacy or their confidential IP. Energy leaders gain a holistic view into their operations in real time to preemptively address maintenance needs, reduce unplanned downtime, accurately forecast energy generation, and take action for a more efficient, sustainable future.

The transition toward diversified energy sources is driving industry demand for a unified approach to data, analytics, and AI 

The energy sector is experiencing a paradigm shift toward a smarter, cleaner and more reliable energy system, with renewables now providing nearly 30 percent of global power. With the Data Intelligence Platform for Energy, customers can democratize data access to their entire organization by delivering the full value of asset, operations, environmental, and customer data to optimize energy infrastructure and mitigate volatility. Databricks has been adopted by industry-leading organizations such as Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), Chevron Phillips Chemical, Cosmo Energy, Octopus Energy, Shell, TotalEnergies, Wood Mackenzie, and more.

"Embracing Databricks has been transformative for our organization's digital transformation?it's the engine that powers our data-driven innovation for asset operations," said Dan Jeavons, Vice President of Digital Innovation at Shell. "With Databricks, we've accelerated our data analytics and AI capabilities, helping to unlock real-time insights that drive strategic decisions and create process improvements, cost reductions, and production increases across our business."

"Octopus Energy is transforming energy systems through tech, delivering exceptional customer service while bringing bills down for customers. Databricks' Data Intelligence Platform for Energy plays a key role in this, allowing us to process and analyze large data sets generated by smart meters," said David Sykes, Head of Data at Octopus Energy. "By gaining deeper insights into customer behavior and energy consumption, we can continue to create innovations and services our customers love so much, and ultimately drive the green energy revolution globally."

Databricks delivers an open, flexible data and AI platform. With powerful tools and partners, Databricks' Data Intelligence Platform for Energy enables customers across the energy sector to tackle critical challenges in the industry, including:

"Successful energy companies will set themselves apart by leveraging data, analytics and AI in novel ways to simultaneously minimize the risk of their strategies and tap new opportunities enabled by the energy transition," said Shiv Trisal, Global Industry Leader for Energy and Manufacturing at Databricks. "This requires a different approach towards data intelligence that puts the power of AI in the hands of every user regardless of technical ability, allowing them to unlock unique insights from the company's full knowledge base and data to power new innovations and shape a smarter, reliable and sustainable energy system for all."

Pre-built data and AI solutions customized to tackle high-value customer use cases 

The Data Intelligence Platform for Energy offers packaged use case accelerators that are designed to jumpstart the analytics process and offer a blueprint to help organizations tackle critical, high-value industry challenges. Popular data solutions for customers across the energy sector include:

Databricks partners deliver an ecosystem of purpose-built solutions for energy

Additionally, industry-leading Databricks partners including AVEVA, BKO, Capgemini, Celebal Technologies, CKDelta, Deloitte, Neudesic, and Seeq are driving the Data Intelligence Platform vision by delivering pre-built analytics solutions on the lakehouse architecture that are tailor-made for the energy industry. Featured partner offerings include:

"The energy transition is moving at an exponential rate, forcing organizations to be more efficient and robust with digital investments. Traditional methods of ETL are not enough. The combination of CONNECT with Databricks through Delta Sharing holds the promise to truly deliver on energy transformation at speed and scale," said Bry Dillon, SVP, Partners and Commercial Strategy at AVEVA.

"At Capgemini, our IDEA framework has been leveraged by many including some of the largest Energy, Utilities and Chemical companies in the world to modernize their data estates using various Databricks products. This accelerates their digital transformation journey leveraging Data and AI to improve their operations. The ability to position the Data Intelligence Platform at the center of this architecture will ensure that the solution is open, secure, scalable, and optimized for total cost of ownership. RAISE, our new GenAI framework, will facilitate further improvement. This blueprint and capacity to deliver the platform as code is accelerating the time to business outcomes," said Michael Doyle, Executive Vice President and Energy and Utilities Industry Leader at Capgemini.

"As we navigate through the era of digital transformation, the convergence of AI and data is revolutionizing the Energy, Natural Resources, and Industrial sectors. At Deloitte, we're not only optimizing operations but also unlocking new avenues of growth and sustainability with the power of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Together with Databricks, we look forward to empowering our clients on their data and AI journey," said Ram Iyer, AI & Data Leader, Energy and Chemicals at Deloitte Consulting.

For more information about the Data Intelligence Platform for Energy, read the Databricks blog or visit Databricks' Energy Industry homepage. Industry leaders should also consider joining Databricks' Manufacturing, Energy and Transportation Forum in Houston, Texas on April 17, 2024 to hear industry insights and best practices from Databricks customers and leaders.

About Databricks 
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide ? including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 ? rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe, and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Sparktm, Delta Lake, and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X and Facebook

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