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17industries
12countries on record
Predictive Analytics
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Consumer GoodsPredictive Analytics

Barilla uses machine learning for predictive maintenance and supply chain optimization

Barilla, the world's largest pasta producer, uses MLflow on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to operationalize machine learning models across its manufacturing operations. Predictive maintenance models forecast machine failures so maintenance can be scheduled proactively, reducing unplanned downtime, energy use, and emissions. Manufacturing cost deployment models help staff extract and allocate industrial costs and quantify plant losses. The company runs 90% of its business (finance, R&D, manufacturing, supply chain, marketing) on the platform, with 40+ data products in production and 1,000+ dashboards, saving millions of euros in production costs.

BarillaDatabricks Data + AI Platform · Delta Lake · Unity Catalog +1
Government & Public SectorDocument IntelligenceGenerative AI

IFC assesses ESG risk with AI-powered MALENA platform

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group, built MALENA (Machine Learning ESG Analyst), an AI-powered platform that uses NLP, sentiment analysis and named entity recognition to extract ESG insights from unstructured text such as impact assessments, news articles and sustainability reports at scale. Built on the Databricks Data + AI Platform with GPU computing and MLflow for the ML lifecycle, MALENA analyzes 19,000 sentences per minute (a 950x increase over manual review) and identifies 1,200 ESG risk terms, reducing document analysis time from weeks to days and enabling IFC to offer MALENA to external users as the World Bank Group's first AI as a Service.

International Finance Corporation (IFC)Databricks Data + AI Platform · MLflow · Azure Data Lake
Financial ServicesPredictive AnalyticsRecommendation & PersonalizationMachine Learning

Personalizing the consumer lending experience

Oakbrook Finance, a UK consumer lending fintech, moved to the Databricks Data + AI Platform on Google Cloud to unify data science and analytics for its loan decisioning platform, O6K, replacing a legacy SQL Server Integration Services environment that could not support advanced risk-prediction analytics. The new platform enabled faster development of data science models for personalized lending decisions, projected 14% cost savings over three years, supported two new financial products launched in 12 months, and is forecast to drive a 5% revenue increase from new top-up loans.

Oakbrook Finance· United KingdomDatabricks Data + AI Platform · Delta Lake · Unity Catalog +1
ManufacturingDigital Twins & SimulationPredictive AnalyticsComputer VisionLarge Language Models

Shaping global infrastructure with ironclad manufacturing

Gerdau, Brazil's largest steel producer, consolidated a complex homegrown open-source data ecosystem onto the Databricks Data + AI Platform, using Delta Lake, Delta Sharing and Unity Catalog to enable real-time processing for digital twin simulations of production lines. The move cut data processing time from 1.5 hours to 12 minutes, delivered a 40% cost reduction for data processing and 80% faster development of streaming solutions, and enabled new AI applications including predictive maintenance, image and text classification, and an LLM-based upskilling assistant for employees.

Gerdau· BrazilDatabricks Data + AI Platform · Delta Lake · Delta Sharing +4
Financial ServicesPredictive Analytics

ABN AMRO's financial services digital transformation at a global scale with Databricks

ABN AMRO, the third-largest bank in the Netherlands, moved from a centralized on-premises data warehouse and siloed teams to the Azure Databricks Data + AI Platform, operationalizing it within a couple of months. The platform, using Delta Lake for reliable data pipelines and MLflow for deploying machine learning models, gave over 500 engineers, scientists and analysts shared access to data. ABN AMRO uses the platform for machine learning-based fraud detection to identify anomalous behavior such as money laundering, a marketing automation stack for faster, more relevant customer product recommendations, and a client dashboard giving support teams a near real-time view of customer assets and transactions. The bank delivered its use cases 10 times faster than with its previous infrastructure, with over 100 additional use cases planned.

ABN AMRO· NetherlandsDatabricks Data + AI Platform · Delta Lake · MLflow +2
Financial ServicesGenerative AI

Independer cuts feature delivery 50% with Lakebase

Independer, the largest independent comparison platform in the Netherlands, used Databricks Lakebase to eliminate the export bottleneck between its Customer 360 data platform (built on Databricks and Unity Catalog) and the production APIs serving its website, customer service tools, and internal analytics. Because customer data had been fragmented across legacy on-premises systems, engineers previously had to write export scripts and load a separate SQL Server instance before building new features. By synchronizing gold tables directly with consuming services via Lakebase (built on PostgreSQL), Independer cut development work for new Customer 360 features by 50% and is now building GenAI agent proof-of-concepts that store state in Lakebase.

Independer· NetherlandsLakebase · Unity Catalog · Databricks Data + AI Platform +1
EnergyGenerative AIRetrieval-Augmented GenerationConversational AIDocument Intelligence

Axpo boosts operational efficiency across the energy value chain

Axpo Group, a major player in the Swiss energy sector, built a GenAI knowledge platform on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to give employees secure, permission-aware search across internal data sources including technical standards, specifications and best practices. The architecture uses a medallion pattern (Bronze/Silver/Gold layers), Lakeflow Jobs for orchestration, RAG-based AI Search, GPT-4o for conversational responses, and Mistral OCR for scanned documents. The tool achieved a 90% approval rating and delivered 30% time savings for power users, with a 3x increase in user adoption as it expanded beyond engineering.

Axpo Group· SwitzerlandDatabricks Data + AI Platform · Databricks Lakeflow Jobs · GPT-4o +2
RetailComputer VisionGenerative AILarge Language Models

Furniture.com Transforms Online Search with Databricks

Furniture.com unifies over 60 retail partners and 1.5 million SKUs on the Databricks Data + AI Platform, using Delta Lake, MLflow and Unity Catalog to run its ML lifecycle. Its Find It AI product-discovery tool uses generative AI to create a synthetic image representing shopper intent, then matches it against the product catalog for image-based search. A Collections model uses LLMs to automatically group related products, finding more than 16,000 collections across 50+ partners with no human intervention. Users who interact with Find It AI show a click-through rate 8x higher than baseline and a return rate 3.2x higher than baseline.

Furniture.comDatabricks Data + AI Platform · Delta Lake · MLflow +3
Consumer GoodsRetrieval-Augmented GenerationGenerative AIRecommendation & PersonalizationAgentic AI

Empowering Marketing Teams to Drive Greater Impact at Reckitt

Reckitt built an AI system called the Insight Engine on the Databricks Data + AI Platform, unifying consumer research, product reviews and social listening signals to give marketing teams faster, actionable insights. The system uses Databricks Model Serving to deploy multiple LLMs including OpenAI's ChatGPT-4 and Google's Gemini, AI Search for retrieval-augmented generation, and Agent Bricks AI Gateway for governance. Reckitt's marketing teams achieved a 40% improvement in task execution, a 40-60% reduction in time to develop campaign concepts, 60% faster concept development, and 30% faster ad adaptation and localization, with hundreds of marketers using the AI tools across the organization by the end of 2025.

ReckittDatabricks Data + AI Platform · Databricks Model Serving · OpenAI ChatGPT-4 +3
TelecommunicationsMachine LearningConversational AI

Building the foundation for the 5G revolution: Digital Nasional Berhad

Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB), Malaysia's government-established 5G network operator, used the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build a cost-effective, high-performance data platform to process 5G network data at scale, achieving 82%+ populated-area coverage in two years. Using Delta Lake with a medallion (Bronze/Silver/Gold) architecture, Databricks Workflows for pipeline orchestration, serverless compute, Notebooks for team collaboration, Unity Catalog for governance, and MLflow for ML lifecycle management, DNB achieved 70% cost optimization and a 60-70% increase in data pipeline performance, and has begun building AI-powered chatbots giving network engineers real-time access to performance insights with geospatial visualizations.

Digital Nasional BerhadDatabricks Data + AI Platform · Delta Lake · Databricks Workflows +3