SAN FRANCISCO — Databricks has announced its acquisition of BladeBridge, a leading provider of AI-powered enterprise data warehouse migration solutions, to accelerate enterprise migrations to Databricks SQL. The collaboration will streamline the code assessment and conversion process for organizations transitioning from legacy data warehouses such as Snowflake, Teradata, and others to Databricks SQL, leveraging a proven LLM-driven approach. This partnership aims to simplify and speed up the migration process, allowing customers to more easily move to the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

With organizations increasingly seeking to modernize their outdated and siloed data warehouses, Databricks SQL presents an industry-leading solution for data management. The platform offers superior price-performance, efficiency, and cutting-edge AI innovations. Powered by AI, Databricks SQL automatically optimizes workloads for improved performance, enabling users to extract insights from their data with minimal technical expertise required. In the past year, Databricks SQL revenue grew by over 150%, surpassing a $600 million annual run rate.

BladeBridge has established itself as one of the most advanced solutions for automating data warehouse migrations, particularly from Snowflake, Redshift, and Teradata, to Databricks SQL. With BladeBridge’s AI-driven solution, organizations can automate code analysis and conversion across more than 20 enterprise data warehouses and ETL tools, minimizing manual effort and ensuring high-quality code output. This integration aligns with Databricks’ strategy to help enterprises efficiently achieve data intelligence across their entire data estate.

BladeBridge has built strong partnerships with major system integrators, including Accenture, Capgemini, Celebal Tech, Ness Digital, and Tredence, providing clarity into conversion scopes, LLM-powered code refactoring, and easy validation of migrated systems. BladeBridge has already helped hundreds of customers successfully migrate to Databricks SQL.

Ali Ghodsi, Co-founder and CEO of Databricks, emphasized the significance of the collaboration, stating, “With Databricks SQL’s rapid growth and adoption by over 10,000 organizations, our partnership with BladeBridge will make it even easier and more cost-effective for businesses to migrate from legacy data systems to the Data Intelligence Platform.”

Simon Eligulashvili, Co-founder and Executive Vice President of BladeBridge, shared his excitement about joining Databricks, noting, “We’re excited to continue our mission of helping companies modernize their data stacks, now at a larger scale.”

Ranjit Tinaikar, CEO of Ness Digital, a key partner, expressed the importance of meeting aggressive timelines for successful data migrations and looked forward to expanding the partnership with Databricks as a strategic partner.

This announcement comes on the heels of Databricks’ recent $15 billion financing round, valuing the company at $62 billion. The company is on track to achieve a $3 billion revenue run rate and become free cash flow positive by the fourth quarter ending January 31, 2025.