▲ Databricks Jia Owei Ling, Managing Director of North Asia, holds a meeting via Zoom
We expect to accelerate the digital transformation of data and AI through cooperation with Korean clients.
Lakehouse Platform 'Simplicity, Openness, Multi-Cloud'
Data & AI company Databricks announced its official entry into Korea and revealed its ambition to fully expand its global business.
On the 20th, Databricks held an online meeting to officially announce its entry into the Korean market through the Zoom online platform.
Databricks is a Data + AI company founded in 2013 by the founders of Apache Spark open source. He created the lakehouse concept and has raised over $3 million in investment in just 8 years since its founding, with over 7,000 customers worldwide.
Databricks combines a data warehouse and a data lake to provide Lakehouse, an open, integrated platform for data and AI.
This meeting consisted of the following: △Greetings △Introduction of Databricks Lakehouse △Presentation of Korean market strategy △Q&A.
Jang Kyung-woon, Solutions Architect Team Leader, introduced Databricks, its company profile, vision, solutions to customer problems, and values under the theme of ‘Making data analysis and AI easy.’
Team Leader Jang said that global big tech companies are applying AI to their core business data to achieve innovation and lead the market.
△Goldman Sachs can quickly assess customers’ credit ratings through AI when customers issue Apple Cards through their iPhones. △The game ‘League of Legends’ production company used AI to reduce customer churn rates and achieve additional sales through special content and personalized purchase recommendation functions. △Walmart used AI to optimize its supply chain and significantly reduced costs caused by food spoilage.
▲Databricks Lakehouse Platform
The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines the strengths of a data lake and a data warehouse, providing the openness, flexibility, and machine learning support of a data lake with the reliability, robust governance, and performance of a data warehouse.
Additionally, it manages all data across the entire cloud with a single security and governance model, and can efficiently handle all types of data.
Ultimately, customer data can be greatly simplified by integrating it into a single architecture.
It is also built on open source and open standards, so it has freedom and is easy to access for open source experts.
It can be used as a single consistent data platform even in a multi-cloud environment. You can maintain and advance your existing efforts in data AI using any of the major cloud providers.
Team Leader Jang said Databricks supports a wide range of customers across all industries, including healthcare/biotech, retail, finance, public, manufacturing, energy, digital natives, and media and entertainment.
Next, Jia Owei Ling, Managing Director of North Asia, presented Databricks’ Korean market strategy.
Jia Owei, Managing Director, who joined Databricks last year, has 20 years of experience in the industry, having held executive positions at Microsoft (MS) and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Jia Owei Ling, Director, explained why Databricks entered the Korean market and expressed its will to implement the Digital New Deal Action Plan 2022 and promote the development of the data economy.
Additionally, Databricks already has customers in Korea and announced that it will provide greater value through Lakehouse.
Meanwhile, at 2:00 PM on the 20th, Databricks held an official virtual launch event in Korea.
Data+AI Summit 2022 will be held from June 27 to 30, and will be broadcast simultaneously in San Francisco and online.
