Sigma Named Databricks’s 2025 Business Intelligence Partner of the Year
This recognition is about how customers are actually using Sigma with Databricks, not about slides or future promises.
What Databricks is recognizing
Over the past year, Sigma and Databricks customers have been using the two platforms together to do something pretty specific: give business users more flexibility without losing control.
Sigma Input Tables, integrated directly with Databricks, let teams explore data, run ad-hoc analysis, and even write data back to Databricks. This happens all while data teams still control access, integrity, and performance. That balance matters a lot in large organizations, where “self-service” usually creates as many problems as it solves.
Why this matters today
A lot of BI tools still force a tradeoff: either flexibility for business users or governance for data teams. Sigma and Databricks have been closing that gap by letting users work directly on live lakehouse data, instead of exporting it or rebuilding logic elsewhere.
Databricks customers are using this setup with Sigma to:
- reduce reliance on analytics teams for one-off requests
- build customer-facing data solutions
- support writeback workflows without custom code
- operationalize analytics instead of stopping at dashboards
A quick word from both sides
Mike Palmer, Sigma’s CEO, summed up the intent behind the work: “This award validates our vision for a new era of BI — where data apps replace static dashboards, AI accelerates insight, and users can actually act on data.”
From Databricks, Roger Murff, VP of Technology Partners, focused on the practical side: “Sigma’s integration with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform gives business users powerful self-service analytics while maintaining the governance and performance enterprises require.”
What’s happening this week
Sigma is at Data + AI Summit all week, exhibiting at Booth #606 and spending time with customers who are building real analytics and data applications on Databricks.
Most of the conversations aren’t about awards. They’re about how teams are using live data to support planning, operations, and AI-driven workflows without creating new systems to manage.
The takeaway
Being named Databricks’ Business Intelligence Partner of the Year is appreciated. More importantly, it reflects that customers are successfully using Sigma and Databricks together in production—at scale, with security and governance baked in.
