Today's core business challenges demand agile, just-in-time approaches for dissecting new and traditional data sources to rapidly isolate the changing signals from the noise.

Key messages:

• Databricks was founded by the team that created the Spark research project at UC Berkeley, which later became Apache Spark™.
  
• Databricks offers a Unified Analytics Platform that makes it easier for its users to focus on their data by providing a fully managed, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure that reduces operational complexity and total cost of ownership.
  
• Databricks has a global customer base that includes Viacom, Shell and HP.