Databricks Honors Top Partners for AI Push

Databricks has unveiled its 2026 Global Partner Awards, celebrating over 60 Consulting and System Integrator (CSI) and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partners. The awards, announced at the Data + AI Summit, highlight significant achievements across global, regional, industry, product, and champion categories.

This year's accolades underscore a strong industry pivot towards AI transformation, lakehouse modernization, and the implementation of agentic AI at enterprise scale. The Databricks Brickbuilder Partner Network, comprising over 8,000 partners worldwide, plays a critical role in delivering data and AI solutions.

Consulting and System Integrator Awards

Accenture/Avanade secured the Global Partner of the Year award for the eighth consecutive year, recognized for sustained global scale and deep investment in AI-led reinvention. Deloitte took North America Partner of the Year for accelerating cloud migration and AI adoption. Capgemini earned EMEA Partner of the Year for executing a massive Unity Catalog migration, while Celebal Technologies won APJ Partner of the Year for its migration accelerators and GenAI copilots.

EY was named Customer Impact Partner of the Year, with Wipro recognized for Innovation. Celebal Technologies also received the Migration and Modernization Partner of the Year award. Infosys was honored as Visionary Partner of the Year for its forward-looking approach to data architecture and governance.

ISV Partner Awards

In the ISV category, Anthropic was named AI Transformations Partner of the Year. NVIDIA secured AI Tools Partner of the Year, and OpenAI took the AI Agents Partner of the Year award. Salesforce was recognized as Business App Partner of the Year.

Key themes included advancements in data governance, data warehousing, and the integration of AI across various business functions. The Databricks AI transformation partners are instrumental in driving these cross-industry initiatives.

These awards celebrate the collaborative efforts that translate data into actionable intelligence.