Follow the Databricks road: Your Guide to Data + AI Summit 2025

Welcome to “Follow the Databricks road”, Anomalo’s Data + AI Summit 2025 series.

The road to Databricks Data + AI Summit 2025 is paved with innovation and trusted data.

As we gear up to meet 20,000 of the world’s leading data and AI leaders in my home of San Francisco from June 9-12 this year, Team Anomalo is excited to take you on a journey into how enterprise organizations are scaling data quality in the era of AI and unstructured data. Leading up to the event, we’ll be sharing technical deep dives, industry-specific insights, and exclusive previews about how Anomalo is helping Databricks customers get ready for Gen AI.

Anomalo is proud to be the only data quality vendor backed by Databricks Ventures. This partnership isn’t just an alignment of technology: it’s the shared belief that enterprises must trust their data, no matter how complex their environment. Together, we’re making it easier for teams to proactively monitor the quality of their data on the Databricks platform, without writing a single line of code. 

Anomalo is the Databricks 2024 Emerging Partner of the Year.

That’s also why being named Databricks’ Emerging Partner of the Year last year meant so much to us. It’s a reflection of the results our shared customers are seeing: from faster time-to-insight to fewer data fire drills and stronger confidence in AI outputs. Whether it’s a data engineer trying to debug a broken dashboard or a business team relying on KPIs powered by our seamless Unity Catalog integration, our goal is the same: help them trust their data and focus on delivering impact.

Last year, we joined enterprise customers leaders on stage in 6 cities around the world to share their data strategies with Anomalo:

• Kristin Hlavinka, Director of Enterprise Data Governance, joined us from ADP, a global leader in human capital management. The org faced challenges with manual data quality checks that couldn’t scale with their growing data needs. By integrating Anomalo with their Databricks environment, Kristin steered ADP’s transition from 700 manual checks to 16,000+ automated validations, significantly enhancing their operational capacity.
• Matt Crawley, Chief Data Officer, spoke to us about the use of Anomalo at Lebara, a European telecommunications company that serves over 4 million customers across the UK, Netherlands, Germany, France, and Denmark. His team sought to improve customer engagement through better data insights. By leveraging Anomalo within their Databricks infrastructure, they achieved a 15% increase in customer acquisition and saved approximately 5,000 person-hours annually by automating data quality processes.
• Mike Randall, Director of Enterprise Data Governance, spoke to us on behalf of Nationwide, one of the largest insurance and financial services companies in the world. There, Mike’s team was responsible for a complex landscape with over 13,000 databases. Implementing Anomalo allowed them to replace 3,000 custom business rules with AI-powered monitoring, enabling proactive detection of data issues and reducing the risk of downstream impacts.

These examples underscore the critical role of automated data quality in driving business outcomes. In the coming weeks, we’ll delve deeper into these success stories and explore how Anomalo and Databricks are enabling enterprises to harness the full potential of their data. Whether you’re a data engineer building on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, a business leader making AI investments across your enterprise, or a BI analyst with high-stakes analytics demands, you won’t want to miss this.

We can’t wait to meet you at the Data + AI Summit in a few weeks!