EPAM Awarded 2026 Databricks Consulting and Systems Integrator AI Partner of the Year for Helping Enterprises Scale AI into Measurable Business Impact
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EPAM (NYSE: EPAM) was named the 2026 Databricks Consulting & Systems Integrator AI Partner of the Year at the Data + AI Summit. The award highlights EPAM's role in helping enterprises across healthcare, retail, consumer goods, manufacturing and media operationalize Databricks-based AI, shorten decision cycles and build governed, conversational intelligence.
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News Market Reaction – EPAM
On the day this news was published, EPAM declined 0.85%, reflecting a mild negative market reaction.
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Peers on Argus
EPAM was modestly lower pre‑news, while four key IT‑services peers (KD, G, EXLS, GDS) also traded down and only PSN was higher, pointing to broader sector pressure rather than a purely stock‑specific move.
Previous AI Reports
| Date | Event | Sentiment | Move | Catalyst |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 06 | AI partnership | Positive | -2.4% | Strategic multi-year Anthropic partnership to scale safe, enterprise generative AI. |
| May 05 | AI product showcase | Positive | -0.9% | Showcasing production-ready AI-powered ServiceNow development with efficiency gains claims. |
| Feb 17 | AI agency expansion | Positive | -2.5% | Expansion of AI-native Empathy Lab agency in North America for CMO-focused solutions. |
| Dec 09 | AI agents launch | Positive | +2.1% | Launch of seven advanced AI agents on Google Cloud Marketplace for key industries. |
| Nov 13 | AI award recognition | Positive | +0.2% | Winning Microsoft Innovate with Azure AI Platform Partner of the Year award. |
AI-related announcements have historically seen modest average moves of about -0.7%, with a mix of aligned and divergent price reactions.
Historical Comparison
In the past year, EPAM issued 5 AI-tagged updates with an average move of -0.7%. Today’s Databricks AI partner award extends this pattern of recurring AI-focused milestones.
Same-tag history shows a progression from launching AI agents and platforms to expanding AI-native agencies and securing major cloud and model-partner awards, underscoring EPAM’s AI-first strategic positioning.
Regulatory & Risk Context
Short positioning appears elevated, suggesting potential for sharper moves in either direction if sentiment shifts or liquidity tightens.
Market Pulse Summary
This announcement reinforces EPAM’s AI-first strategy, adding a Databricks Partner of the Year award to prior AI launches and alliances. Investors may watch how this recognition translates into measurable client wins and scaled AI deployments.
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Customer success across consumer goods, retail, healthcare and life sciences highlights EPAM's impact in helping enterprises operationalize Databricks AI for improved visibility and trusted business decisions
Learn more about EPAM's partnership with Databricks
The award recognizes EPAM's impact in helping clients across industries operationalize AI on the Databricks platform, accelerating the journey from fragmented data to trusted, production-grade AI applications and agents that help business teams act with confidence. EPAM's delivery approach and AI accelerators were recognized for helping organizations reduce decision cycles from days to minutes, decrease reliance on manual reporting and put governed, conversational intelligence in the hands of the people who drive business outcomes.
"We're delighted to be awarded Databricks' 2026 Consulting & Systems Integrator AI Partner of the Year. This recognition reflects the impact of our partnership in helping global organizations turn AI strategy into enterprise-scale transformation," said Valentin Tsitlik, SVP, Head of Data and Analytics Practice, EPAM. "Together with Databricks, we help our joint clients build the trusted data foundations and production AI capabilities needed to simplify decision making, improve enterprise performance and create measurable business value."
EPAM has demonstrated a strong commitment to helping client organizations build and scale data analytics, AI applications and agents through its collaboration with Databricks, the Data and AI company. Working across healthcare and life sciences, consumer goods and retail, manufacturing, media and other industries, EPAM has developed industry-specific AI accelerators that help clients modernize their data platforms and accelerate AI adoption.
"The most successful organizations today are those that can turn raw data into real business impact. EPAM, our 2026 Consulting & Systems Integrator AI Partner of the Year, stands out in helping customers make that leap," said Kori O'Brien, SVP, Global Partnerships at Databricks. "Their ability to execute complex transformations on the Databricks platform helps our joint customers move faster and put AI to work in meaningful, measurable ways."
EPAM's winning use cases illustrate how conversational AI can unblock workflows typically slowed by fragmented data and manual reporting, helping client teams detect issues earlier, improve alignment and move faster from insight to action. By creating trusted enterprise context from governed data, these solutions help AI applications and agents deliver more accurate insights and actions across critical business workflows. This recognition reflects not just delivery excellence, but EPAM's broader commitment as an AI-first company, combining deep engineering heritage with a relentless focus on turning AI strategy into measurable enterprise outcomes.
This focus on trusted data foundations and governed AI aligns with broader industry guidance on what enterprises need to scale AI responsibly. As Forrester notes in a recently published report, "When data governance and AI governance operate in alignment, they become a powerful engine that delivers the outcome the business craves: trust, enablement, superior intelligence, assurance, and control. Trusted data strengthens AI outcomes, while governed AI use cases create clearer expectations for data quality, access, and controls."1
The strength of the EPAM partnership with Databricks is also reflected in enterprise-scale data modernization work that helps clients build the foundation for future AI initiatives. In an engagement with a leading marketing data and analytics company, EPAM helped deliver the client's first modern enterprise data platform on Databricks and Microsoft Azure, simplifying a fragmented data estate and creating a common data model to support governance, reduce duplicate engineering work and enable high-volume analytics across the enterprise.
To learn more about EPAM's partnership with Databricks, visit: www.epam.com/services/partners/databricks.
About EPAM Systems, Inc.
EPAM (NYSE:EPAM) is a global leader in AI transformation engineering and integrated consulting, serving Forbes Global 2000 companies and ambitious startups. With over thirty years of expertise in custom software, product and platform engineering, EPAM empowers organizations to become AI-Native enterprises, driving measurable value from innovation and digital investments. Recognized by industry benchmarks and leading analysts as a leader in AI, EPAM delivers globally while engaging locally, making the future real for clients, partners, and employees.
We are proud to be recognized by Forbes, Glassdoor, Newsweek, Time Magazine, Great Place to Work and kununu as a Most Loved Workplace around the world.
Learn more at www.epam.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
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1 Forrester, "Operationalize Data and AI Governance To Enable Business Outcomes", Jayesh Chaurasia, Enza Iannopollo with Sudha Maheshwari, Samishti Bhatia, Jen Barton, June 2, 2026
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