As healthcare organizations accelerate toward value-based care, the ability to turn massive data volumes into actionable insights is no longer optional—it’s mission-critical. In a recent webinar, Improve Healthcare Quality with Data + AI, experts from Databricks, Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, and Perficient shared how leading organizations are using unified data and AI to improve outcomes, enhance […]
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Interview with Prasad Sogalad: Becoming a Databricks Partner Champion
The Databricks Partner Champion Program recognizes individuals who demonstrate technical mastery, thought leadership, and a commitment to advancing the data and AI ecosystem. We sat down with Perficient lead technical consultant Prasad Sogalad, recently named a Databricks Champion, to learn about his journey, insights, and advice for aspiring professionals. Q: What does it mean to […]
Databricks Acquires Tecton
Here’s Why Perficient’s Elite Partner Status Will Make a Difference Databricks recently announced its acquisition of Tecton, a leading real-time feature store, to expand its AI agent capabilities. The move, covered by outlets including Reuters, InfoWorld, and AiTech365, enhances Databricks’ real-time data processing within Agent Bricks, enabling ultra-fast, contextual decision-making across use cases such as […]
Championing Innovation as a Newly Named Databricks Champion
At Perficient, we believe that championing innovation begins with the bold leaders who live it every day. Today, we’re proud to recognize Madhu Mohan Kommu, a key driver in our Databricks Center of Excellence (CoE), for being named a Databricks Champion, one of the most coveted recognitions in the Databricks ecosystem. This honor represents more […]
Why Databricks SQL Serverless is not PCI-DSS compliant
Databricks supports a wide range of compliance standards to meet the needs of highly regulated industries, including: HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) FedRAMP High & Moderate DoD IL5 IRAP (Australia) GDPR (EU) CCPA (California) However, I was surprised to read that Databricks Serverless workloads are not covered for PCI-DSS (Databricks PCI […]
A Recipe to Boost Predictive Modeling Efficiency
Implementing predictive analytical insights has become ever so essential for organizations to operate efficiently and remain relevant. What is important while doing this though is to be agile and adaptable. This is much so because what holds valid for a period can easily become obsolete with time. And what is characteristic of a specific group […]
Salesforce to Databricks: A Deep Dive into Integration Strategies
Supplementing Salesforce with Databricks as an enterprise Lakehouse solution brings advantages for various personas across an organization. Customer experience data is highly valued when it comes to driving personalized customer journeys leveraging company-wide applications beyond Salesforce. From enhanced customer satisfaction to tailored engagements and offerings that drive business renewals and expansions, the advantages are hard […]
Databricks Lakebase – Database Branching in Action
What is Databricks Lakebase? Databricks Lakebase is a Postgres OLTP engine, integrated into Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. A database instance is a compute type that provides fully managed storage and compute resources for a postgres database. Lakebase leverages an architecture that separates compute and storage, which allows independent scaling while supporting low latency (<10ms) and […]
Celebrating Perficient’s Third Databricks Champion
We’re excited to welcome Bamidele James as Perficient’s newest and third Databricks Champion! His technical expertise, community engagement, advocacy, and mentorship have made a profound impact on the Databricks ecosystem. His Nomination Journey Bamidele’s journey through the nomination process was vigorous. It required evidence that he has successfully delivered multiple Databricks projects, received several certifications, […]
Exploring Lakebase: Databricks’ Next-Gen AI-Native OLTP Database
Lakebase is Databricks‘ OLTP database and the latest member of its ML/AI offering. Databricks has incorporated various components to support its AI platform, including data components. The Feature Store has been available for some time as a governed, centralized repository that manages machine learning features throughout their lifecycle. Mosaic AI Vector Search is a vector […]
Mastering Databricks Jobs API: Build and Orchestrate Complex Data Pipelines
In this post, we’ll dive into orchestrating data pipelines with the Databricks Jobs API, empowering you to automate, monitor, and scale workflows seamlessly within the Databricks platform. Why Orchestrate with Databricks Jobs API? When data pipelines become complex involving multiple steps—like running notebooks, updating Delta tables, or training machine learning models—you need a reliable way […]
LatAm’s First Databricks Champion at Perficient
We are thrilled to announce that Juan Cardona Ramirez has been recognized as a Databricks Partner Champion, making him the first Perficient colleague in Latin America to earn this prestigious designation. This recognition celebrates Juan’s deep technical expertise, consistent contributions, and commitment to innovation within the Databricks ecosystem. Program Overview The Databricks Partner Champion […]