SAN FRANCISCO — Slalom, a purpose-led, global business and technology consulting company, today announced at Databricks Data + AI Summit that it has been named Healthcare and Life Sciences Partner of the Year by Databricks for the second year running and sixth consecutive time as a Databricks Partner of the Year award winner.

The Databricks Global Partner Awards recognize exceptional accomplishments and joint collaboration between Databricks and its partners. The Industry Leaders Awards for Healthcare and Life Sciences celebrate outstanding achievements in building and delivering world-class data and AI solutions for mutual customers in the industry. 

“This award recognizes our mutual commitment with Databricks to deliver leading healthcare and life sciences solutions,” said Mukesh Kumar, Global President of Technology at Slalom. “It underscores our innovative, data-driven offerings that create meaningful impact for researchers, clinicians, and patients.”

Slalom’s success was showcased in its recent work with a health data utility to build a transformative Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Slalom adeptly integrated industry-specific data formats to utilize Databricks’ cutting-edge data and analytics technology and manage complex healthcare data requirements. This provided the organization with a single source of truth for data access, helping to drive better cross-team collaboration through enhanced data accessibility and performance. By improving data quality feedback loops, accelerating data onboarding and analysis, and achieving scalable, real-time data processing capabilities, this solution has enabled the client to deliver higher quality data and more timely insights to providers and patients. 

"We are thrilled to award Slalom the 2024 Databricks Healthcare and Life Sciences Partner of the Year," said Roger Murff, VP of Technology Partners at Databricks. "In an era where data and AI are pivotal to innovation, Slalom's partnership with Databricks is essential to delivering data intelligence. Together, we’ll ensure our joint customers can harness the full potential of their data. We eagerly anticipate further achievements in our partnership with Slalom, as we continue to empower organizations to transform data into actionable insights."

As a six-time Databricks Partner of the Year, Slalom is committed to advancing analytics capabilities for healthcare and life science organizations and beyond by bringing data and AI to the forefront. Slalom's Digital Patient 360 Accelerator, a transformative clinical data management solution built on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, is another example of how Slalom is empowering breakthroughs and driving accelerated value for life sciences clients. By consolidating clinical data into a unified platform, Digital Patient 360 enables a complete patient-centric view to accelerate research, streamline clinical trials, ensure compliance, maintain data quality, and drive innovation in developing new therapies and improving patient outcomes faster than traditional methods.

By combining Slalom’s expertise in strategy, technology, and business transformation with Databricks’ powerful data intelligence technology, the companies deliver industry-leading analytics platforms that accelerate insights, catalyze innovation, and deliver competitive advantage.

To learn more about how Slalom and Databricks are partnering to help customers rethink the impossible with AI and the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform here.