Denodo Achieves «Databricks» Validated Partner Status for Its Seamless Integration in Support of AI and Analytics
Dubai, UAE – November 13, 2025:
«Denodo», a leader in data management, announced that it has achieved the «Databricks» Validated Partner designation, reinforcing the growing collaboration between the two companies to help enterprises accelerate AI and analytics on governed, trusted data.
The Denodo Platform, a logical data management solution, underwent rigorous technical validation by Databricks, assessing its compatibility, interoperability, performance, and security alignment with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. This included testing integration with Unity Catalog as the governance backbone for lakehouse assets. This validation confirms that Denodo meets Databricks’ standards for interoperability, giving customers confidence that the two platforms work together to unify access to data across hybrid and multicloud environments while enforcing consistent governance and accelerating time-to-insight for AI and advanced analytics initiatives.
Empowering Enterprises
Denodo and Databricks currently serve more than 150 joint customers globally, empowering enterprises to unlock the full value of their data through a secure architecture comprising a physical lakehouse optimized by logical data management and integration that enables faster, more confident AI adoption.
“Earning validated partner status from Databricks reflects our continued commitment to delivering value and trust to our customers,” said Suresh Chandrasekaran, Executive Vice President at Denodo. “Together with Databricks, we’re helping organizations modernize their data ecosystems so they can use governed, real-time data to power agentic AI innovation and achieve better business outcomes.”
Collaboration Benefits
Through this collaboration, joint customers have benefited from:
● Higher ROI: Independent analyst Veqtor8 found that companies gained higher returns when combining their data lakehouses with the Denodo Platform.
● Modernized Data Infrastructures: Power AI applications and self-service use cases with governed data drawn from distributed sources and delivered in real time.
● AI with Guardrails: Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and agentic workflows retrieve only permitted data using Unity Catalog-governed lakehouse assets unified via Denodo’s semantic layer.
● One Semantic View: Denodo virtualizes ERP, SaaS, APIs, and on-premises systems into governed views that Databricks SQL, notebooks, and ML pipelines can use immediately.
● Hybrid and Multicloud by Design: Keeps data where it lives – Azure, AWS, GCP, or on-premises – while standardizing scalable compute on Databricks.
● Unified Governance: Unity Catalog governs lakehouse assets; Denodo enforces equivalent policies across non-Databricks sources for consistent access and protection.
● Tool Choice without Policy Drift: Power BI, Tableau, and other applications connect through Denodo to governed views, maintaining governance consistency.
● Lower Cost and Risk: Fewer pipelines, reduced duplicates, and consistent policy enforcement across tools lower operational risk.
● Accelerated Adoption: Organizations can build new workloads within a unified semantic framework and migrate to lakehouses step-by-step.
Research Insights
This partnership underscores the shared focus of Denodo and Databricks on helping customers modernize data architectures and accelerate business value through their combined platforms. Independent research by Veqtor8 found that organizations using Denodo alongside their data lakehouses realized data delivery 10x faster and reduced data engineering effort by 75%.
“As part of a study with Veqtor8, I recently evaluated the typical ROI that companies received when they applied a logical data management layer on top of a data lakehouse, and on average, their ROI was 345% higher,” said Andrew Milroy, chief analyst at Veqtor8. “This partnership is promising for companies seeking the most advanced and cost-effective data management solution.”
To learn more about how Denodo and Databricks help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, visit [link], and read the latest joint customer story [link].
About Denodo
Denodo is a leader in data management. The award-winning Denodo Platform is the leading logical data management platform for transforming data into trustworthy insights and outcomes for all data-related initiatives across the enterprise, including AI and self-service. Denodo’s customers in all industries have delivered trusted AI-ready and business-ready data in a third of the time and with 10x better performance than with lakehouses and other mainstream data platforms alone. For more information, visit denodo.com.
