Monte Carlo Named 2025 Databricks Data Governance Partner of the Year
The award was presented at the annual Databricks Data + AI Summit 2025, celebrating partners who have demonstrated excellence in extending and enhancing the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform capabilities while delivering exceptional customer outcomes.
'We're honored to be recognized as Databricks' Data Governance Partner of the Year,' said Barr Moses, CEO and co-founder of Monte Carlo. 'This recognition underscores our joint commitment to helping enterprises establish trust at every layer of the data and AI stack—from raw ingestion to model outputs. For today's data leaders, delivering trusted, reliable AI starts with strong data foundations. That's why we've made deep integration and partnership with platforms like Databricks a strategic priority—to empower our customers with end-to-end data + AI observability and accelerate time to value.'
Monte Carlo's deep integration with Databricks provides joint customers like American Airlines, NASDAQ, the Texas Rangers, and many others with complete visibility across their data and AI stacks, helping teams quickly detect, resolve, and prevent data quality and AI reliability issues before they impact the business. The partnership delivers comprehensive coverage for the entire Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Databricks AI/BI, and more.
"We are thrilled to award Monte Carlo the 2025 Databricks Data Governance Partner of the Year," said Roger Murff, VP of Technology Partners at Databricks. "Impactful AI applications start with good data. We look forward to continuing our collaboration with Monte Carlo to help enterprises build reliable data foundations that deliver trusted AI applications.'.'
Attending Databricks Data + AI Summit June 9-12? Visit Monte Carlo's booth #F602 or check out our other events at the conference: info.montecarlodata.com/events/databricks-summit-2025
Learn how Monte Carlo and Databricks customers deliver end-to-end data + AI observability across Databricks' Data Intelligence Platform: www.montecarlodata.com/customers/partners-databricks
Monte Carlo created the data + AI observability category to help enterprises drive mission critical business initiatives with trusted data + AI. NASDAQ, Honeywell, Roche, and hundreds of other data teams rely on Monte Carlo to detect and resolve data + AI issues at scale. Named a 'New Relic for data' by Forbes, Monte Carlo is rated the #1 data + AI observability solution by G2 Crowd, Gartner Peer Reviews, GigaOm, ISG, and others.
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