12, Dec 2023
BluePi welcomes Ravi Girdhar as Vice President of Sales
Gurgaon, December 12, 2023: BluePi Consulting (BluePi), a leader in data-driven business transformation solutions, is pleased to announce the appointment of Ravi Girdhar as the Vice President of Sales. With a proven track record of having delivered for over 20 years in driving sales strategies and nurturing strong customer relationships, Ravi Girdhar brings valuable experience to his role at BluePi.
In his role as Vice President of Sales, Ravi will play a key role in steering the organization’s sales division, designing and executing sales strategies, and promoting teamwork to drive further growth while expanding BluePi’s market presence.
Ravi brings a wealth of experience in sales, transition, and delivery management. He is recognized for his exceptional ability to manage P&L, identify and secure lucrative business opportunities, and cultivate a collaborative and results-oriented team that consistently achieves organizational objectives. With extensive experience in Enterprise and SaaS sales, account management, and strategic deals, Ravi has also successfully established and scaled high-performing presales teams. Ravi’s international experience, having contributed to growth and profitability in both the US and the UK, further strengthens his ability to foster success in diverse markets.
Commenting on the appointment, Pronam Chatterjee, Co-founder and CEO, of BluePi Consulting said, “We are indeed happy to welcome Ravi Girdhar to BluePi to head our sales business unit. We are confident that under Ravi’s leadership, the organization will further expand its footprint across various industries. He will play a critical role in driving our sales strategies and strengthening relationships with all our customers worldwide.” He further added, “I am confident Ravi will be a great partner on this organization’s journey to success and wish him all success in his new role.”
Throughout his professional journey, Ravi has spearheaded several cross-functional and multicultural teams, making significant contributions to various strategic and transformative initiatives. His collaborative approach and belief in data-driven decision-making have been instrumental in driving transformative initiatives across industries. A graduate of the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, Ravi brings a blend of technical expertise and strategic acumen to his work.
Ravi Girdhar, Vice President of Sales, said, “BluePi has established itself as a leader in business transformation and data and analytics, serving organizations across industry verticals. I am deeply honored to join BluePi and contribute to its ongoing growth journey. The industry is evolving rapidly, and I look forward to leading the sales team and working closely with our customers to drive their business success by offering them innovative and outcome-based solutions.”
This appointment is in line with BluePi’s commitment to bringing in high-caliber leadership to take the organization into the next phase of growth. Ravi’s rich experience, business acumen, and functional skills will certainly establish BluePi as a leading brand in the markets the organization operates.
For over a decade, BluePi has enabled organizations to transform their operations by providing data-driven business insights. It specializes in custom data, analytics, and AI/ML solutions that help drive business outcomes for organizations. BluePi works with technology partners, such as Amazon Web Services, Snowflake, Google Cloud Platform, Databricks, and VMware.
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- By Rabindra
6, Dec 2023
Unravel Data Partners with Databricks for Lakehouse Observability and FinOps
Bangalore, December 6, 2023 — Unravel Data, the first AI-enabled data observability and FinOps platform built to address the speed and scale of modern data platforms, today announced that it has joined the Databricks Partner Program to deliver AI-powered data observability into Databricks for granular visibility, performance optimizations, and cost governance of data pipelines and applications. With this new partnership, Unravel and Databricks will collaborate on Go-To-Market (GTM) efforts to enable Databricks customers to leverage Unravel’s purpose-built AI for the Lakehouse for real-time, continuous insights and recommendations to speed time to value of data and AI products and ensure optimal ROI.
With organizations increasingly under pressure to deliver data and AI innovation at lightning speed, data teams are on the front line of delivering production-ready data pipelines at an exponential rate while optimizing performance and efficiency to deliver faster time to value. Unravel’s purpose-built AI for Databricks integrates with Lakehouse Monitoring and Lakehouse Observability to deliver the performance and efficiency needed to achieve speed and scale for data analytics and AI products. Unravel’s integration with Unity Catalog enables Databricks users to speed up lakehouse transformation by providing real-time, AI-powered cost insights, code-level optimizations, accurate spending predictions, and performance recommendations to accelerate data pipelines and applications for greater returns on cloud data platform investments. Auto Actions and alerts help automate governance with proactive guardrails.
“Most organizations today are receiving unprecedented amounts of data from a staggering number of sources, and they’re struggling to manage it all, which can quickly lead to unpredictable cloud data spend. This combination of rapid lakehouse adoption and the hyperfocus companies have on leveraging AI/ML models for additional revenue and competitive advantage, brings the importance of data observability to the forefront,” said Kunal Agarwal, CEO and co-founder, Unravel Data. “Lakehouse customers who use Unravel can now achieve the agility required for AI/ML innovation while having the predictability and cost governance guardrails needed to ensure a strong ROI.”
Unravel’s purpose-built AI for Databricks delivers insights based on Unravel’s deep observability at the job, user, and code level to supply AI-driven cost efficiency recommendations, including compute provisioning, query performance, autoscaling efficiencies, and more.
Unravel for Databricks enables organizations to:
● Speed cloud transformation initiatives by having real-time cost visibility, predictive spend forecasting, and performance insights for their workloads
● Enhance time to market of new AI initiatives by mitigating potential pipeline bottlenecks and associated costs before they occur
● Better manage and optimize the ROI of data projects with customized dashboards and alerts that offer insights on spend, performance, and unit economics
Unravel’s integration with popular DevOps tools like GitHub and Azure DevOps provides actionability in CI/CD workflows by enabling early issue detection during the code-merge phase and providing developers with real-time insights into the potential financial impacts of their code changes. This results in fewer production issues and improved cost efficiency.
Learn how Unravel and Databricks can help enterprises optimize their cloud data spend and increase ROI here.
