Optiblack today announced a strategic partnership with Databricks to help enterprises accelerate their journey from fragmented data to production-grade AI, using the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform as the foundation and Optiblack as the end‑to‑end solution partner for implementation and adoption. The collaboration will focus on turning data investments into measurable revenue impact through industry-ready accelerators, consulting, and build-operate-transfer models for modern analytics and AI workloads.
Optiblack, a product consulting and digital transformation firm specializing in data, analytics and AI, will combine its implementation expertise with Databricks’ Lakehouse and Data Intelligence capabilities to help customers unify data, simplify architectures, and operationalize AI faster. By aligning with the Databricks partner ecosystem, Optiblack will support customers across SaaS, e-commerce, healthcare, and manufacturing in moving from pilot AI experiments to scalable, production-grade use cases.
Under this partnership, Optiblack will design and implement data platforms on Databricks that consolidate siloed data, enable self-service analytics, and create a single source of truth for business and product teams. The collaboration aims to reduce time-to-value for analytics from quarters to weeks, while ensuring architectures are cost-effective and built on open, non–lock-in foundations.
A core focus of the partnership is to close the gap between data infrastructure investments and realized business outcomes, particularly revenue growth, conversion uplift, and operational efficiency. Optiblack will bring proven playbooks from its work with fast-growing SaaS and digital businesses—where it has helped teams move from “data darkness” to rich product and customer intelligence—to Databricks customers seeking similar transformation.
Together, Optiblack and Databricks will offer solution accelerators for common industry patterns such as customer 360, product analytics, marketing performance measurement, and executive reporting on a unified Databricks Lakehouse. These accelerators will bundle reference architectures, modular code, and governance practices so customers can stand up end-to-end data and AI solutions with significantly lower risk and implementation effort.
Optiblack will provide consulting, implementation, and managed services around Databricks, including lakehouse design, data ingestion and transformation, feature engineering for ML, and integration with downstream tools like BI, product analytics, and reverse ETL platforms. The firm will also leverage its build-operate-transfer model, acting as an extended data team initially and then gradually enabling in-house teams to own and scale Databricks-based platforms.
Through the Databricks partner program, Optiblack gains access to technical enablement, product and engineering teams at Databricks, and joint go-to-market initiatives to help more organizations adopt the Data Intelligence Platform. Customers will benefit from aligned incentives across both companies, focused on driving platform consumption through actual usage and value creation rather than one-time implementation milestones.
Optiblack is a product consulting and digital transformation firm that helps SaaS and digital businesses convert data into revenue through analytics, experimentation, and AI solutions. Founded in 2022 and based in India and the United States, Optiblack has worked with high-growth companies to design and implement data platforms, product analytics, and growth systems that scale with their businesses.
Databricks is the company behind the Data Intelligence Platform, unifying data, analytics, and AI on a single Lakehouse architecture that powers thousands of organizations worldwide. Through its global partner ecosystem, Databricks works with consulting and technology partners to deliver industry-specific solutions that help customers unlock the full value of their data and accelerate AI adoption.