NEWTOWN, PA — EPAM Systems (NYSE: EPAM) has been named Databricks’ 2026 Consulting & Systems Integrator AI Partner of the Year, recognizing the company’s work helping enterprise customers deploy production AI applications and modernize data platforms across multiple industries.
The award was presented at Databricks’ annual Data + AI Summit and recognizes EPAM’s collaboration with the data and AI software provider on enterprise AI implementations, the company announced.
According to EPAM, the recognition reflects customer deployments in consumer goods, retail, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing and media, where the company has developed industry-specific AI tools to help organizations integrate data, analytics and artificial intelligence into business operations.
“We’re delighted to be awarded Databricks’ 2026 Consulting & Systems Integrator AI Partner of the Year,” said Valentin Tsitlik, senior vice president and head of EPAM’s Data and Analytics Practice. “Together with Databricks, we help our joint clients build the trusted data foundations and production AI capabilities needed to simplify decision making, improve enterprise performance and create measurable business value.”
EPAM said its implementations are designed to help organizations consolidate fragmented data, reduce reliance on manual reporting and deploy governed AI applications capable of supporting operational decision-making.
“The most successful organizations today are those that can turn raw data into real business impact,” said Kori O’Brien, senior vice president of 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.”
The company also highlighted a recent engagement with a marketing data and analytics provider in which it helped build a modern enterprise data platform using Databricks and Microsoft Azure. According to EPAM, the project consolidated a fragmented data environment, established a common data model and supported governance while reducing duplicate engineering work.
EPAM said the award reflects its broader strategy of expanding enterprise AI deployments built on governed data platforms as organizations seek to scale artificial intelligence across business operations.
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