Deloitte wins three 2026 Databricks Partner of the Year awards

Why this recognition matters

Deloitte’s 2026 Databricks Partner of the Year awards underscore the strength of our alliance and our joint commitment to helping clients unlock greater value from their data across geographies and industries.

As a Databricks consulting partner, our ability to combine industry insight with Databricks implementation services can help organizations accelerate enterprise AI strategy, analytics and data engineering. Together, we deliver especially meaningful impact in the public sector, banking, and across the US and Canada.

“The most successful organizations today are those that can turn raw data into real business impact. Deloitte, our 2026 North America Partner of the Year, stands out in helping customers make that leap,” said Kori O’Brien, SVP, Global Partnerships at Databricks. “Their ability to execute complex transformations on the Databricks platform helps our joint customers move faster and put AI to work in meaningful, measurable ways.”

Cross-industry impact

Across industries, Deloitte and Databricks help organizations modernize data, scale enterprise AI strategy and achieve measurable business outcomes.

Banking

Deloitte and Databricks can help banks strengthen data foundations and support trusted decision-making in finance, risk, treasury and financial crime by helping:

• Build enterprise lakehouse foundations for global and U.S. banking environments
• Support regulatory and risk reporting on governed data products
• Enable AI-assisted planning, analytics, and decision support for banking teams
• Modernize treasury, liquidity, and AML use cases on scalable data platforms

“We're honored to be Databricks’ 2026 Banking Partner of the Year, reflecting our strong alliance to help banks modernize data, scale AI responsibly, and deliver measurable, industry-specific business outcomes,” said Michelle Gauchat, Principal, US banking and capital markets leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP.

Government & Public Services

Deloitte and Databricks can help state, local, and higher education organizations improve citizen experience and public trust by enabling them to:

• Support health and unemployment benefits eligibility determination for faster access to benefits
• Detect fraud and prevent improper payments, ensuring benefits and grants reach eligible recipients
• Monitor infrastructure and roadway conditions and predict maintenance needs for modern transportation systems
• Strengthen governance and access to maximize inter-state and inter-agency sharing

“Databricks’ platform is more powerful than ever,” said Jason Wainstein, Principal, Global and US Government and Public Services (GPS) Growth Platforms leader, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. “I'm excited to build on the mission impact we've delivered together streamlining access to benefits, reducing fraud and waste, improving critical infrastructure, and powering Agentic transformation.”

Together, Deloitte and Databricks deliver tailored support for clients’ end-to-end cloud and AI transformation journeys. Deloitte's AI and data offerings are designed to enable clients to gain better insights into their data to drive operational efficiency and organizational growth. The 2026 awards build on Deloitte’s history of recognition by Databricks and reflect a shared commitment to impactful, data-driven solutions.