Here’s Why Perficient’s Elite Partner Status Will Make a Difference
Databricks recently announced its acquisition of Tecton, a leading real-time feature store, to expand its AI agent capabilities. The move, covered by outlets including Reuters, InfoWorld, and AiTech365, enhances Databricks’ real-time data processing within Agent Bricks, enabling ultra-fast, contextual decision-making across use cases such as fraud detection, personalization, and risk scoring.
What Does the Tecton Acquisition Mean for Databricks?
The acquisition is significant because it closes one of the largest gaps in moving AI from experimentation to production at scale. Building on Tecton’s long-standing partnership and investor ties with Databricks—as well as shared clients like Coinbase—the deal strengthens Databricks’ market position and accelerates its ambition to lead enterprise AI infrastructure.
Why it Matters:
Real-Time AI Capabilities
- Tecton’s feature platform enables sub-10 ms feature serving, allowing AI agents and applications to respond instantly with fresh data (fraud detection, chatbots, personalized recommendations).
- By bringing this into Databricks, enterprises can now handle data prep, model training, and real-time inference all on one unified platform.
Seamless Workflows from Raw Data to Production AI
- Traditionally, teams stitched together multiple tools for data engineering, feature engineering, and deployment—causing delays and friction.
- With Tecton integrated, Databricks now offers a streamlined path from raw data → features → models → production, reducing complexity and accelerating time-to-value.
Enterprise-Grade Scale and Governance
- Companies often struggle to reuse features across teams or maintain consistency between training and production. Tecton standardizes this process, improving accuracy and governance.
- Now, enterprises get that consistency inside the Databricks intelligence ecosystem—without juggling extra platforms.
Ecosystem Strength
- The acquisition expands Databricks’ capabilities into feature store and real-time AI territory.
- For enterprises already on Databricks, it eliminates the need to adopt yet another specialized tool.
Perficient: An Elite Partner in Real-Time AI Adoption
As of March 17, 2025, Perficient achieved Databricks Elite Partner status, recognizing our deep expertise across data engineering, AI/ML, analytics, and governance. With more than 160 Databricks-certified consultants, we deliver end-to-end, mission-ready solutions—from lakehouse design to MLOps/LLMOps—across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
Perficient was on the ground at the Databricks Data + AI World Tour 2025 in Dallas on September 4th, immediately following the Tecton announcement.
“The acquisition of Tecton marks a turning point in how enterprises operationalize AI. By embedding real-time feature serving directly into the Databricks Intelligence Platform, organizations can build AI systems that not only learn but also react instantly to business-critical events,” said Nick Passero, director of Databricks at Perficient.
“As a Databricks Elite Partner, Perficient is uniquely positioned to help clients harness this capability—guiding them through integration, optimizing their architectures, and accelerating their path from experimentation to enterprise-scale AI.”
Now with Tecton’s real-time feature services in the fold, Perficient is ideally positioned to help clients integrate, optimize, and scale—turning data intensity into AI agility.
Three Ways Perficient Can Help Clients Harness Tecton-Powered AI
- Integration Best Practices: Perficient guides clients on embedding Tecton-powered real-time feature serving into their existing Databricks environments—ensuring workflows remain seamless, performant, and cost-effective.
- Accelerated Innovation with Confidence: With Tecton’s sub-10 ms latency, sub-100 ms freshness, and 99.99% uptime guarantees, Perficient helps clients deploy responsive agentic systems backed by enterprise-grade reliability.
- Comprehensive, Future-Ready AI Architectures: From strategy and design to deployment and governance, Perficient architects full-stack AI systems—including real-time feature stores, MLOps pipelines, AI agents, and dashboards—for use cases spanning personalization to risk mitigation.
Build with Databricks + Perficient
Databricks’ acquisition of Tecton is a milestone in the evolution of AI infrastructure. It empowers enterprises to build AI agents that think, react, and adapt in real time. Perficient, with our Elite Partner status, deep technical expertise, and strategic advisory capabilities, is ready to help organizations harness this shift and translate it into measurable business outcomes.
Want to get started? Reach out to our Databricks experts to explore how real-time AI agents powered by Tecton can redefine your business.
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