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ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY

Building a services economy around Universal AI

91 % of Dataiku’ s business last year was influenced by partners and for Dataiku, partnership is a corporate culture because this is what its enterprise customers need. Dataiku customers are looking for services around implementation, training, building and scaling use cases and this is fully managed by partners and is with partners. 95 % of the services are delivered by its partners from the Dataiku Partner Network programme.
Sofian Benali, Regional Vice President EMEA Partnerships, Dataiku

Dataiku is a 12 year old company that has been preparing for the AI disruptive cycle. Along this journey it has also been talking about analytics, Machine Learning, and deep learning. According to Sofian Benali, Regional Vice President EMEA Partnerships, at Dataiku, the AI wave is as disruptive as the impact of cloud that began more than a decade ago and the Internet much before that.

“ That had a huge impact and it was a big shift in the IT industry. For us, from our view, AI, Generative AI, and Predictive AI will have the exact same impact, which means right now we are in the early days,” Benali explains.
“ The impact will be from our view, extremely positive and beneficial.”
They are our partners because they are transforming the whole organisation of our customers.
Dataiku’ s go to market pillars
The Dataiku platform is a combination of four go to market pillars. These are people, data, technology, and governance. These four pillars are a good snapshot of how Dataiku differentiates and positions itself in the market and how it guides its enterprise customers.
Dataiku has been created around Universal AI as its mantra. Dataiku’ s positioning is that everyone in an enterprise should be able to use AI and be a user of AI, whether they are software coders, business analysts, C-level executives, marketing teams, sales teams, and so on.
It is for this reason the Dataiku platform has been built so that everyone in an enterprise can use the platform, collaborate with it, and understand what the results around the usage of AI are.
“ Everyone can use it and that is really making us different. So, it is about people,
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