Built on Databricks
Turn your data into a revenue stream
Your Databricks investment has modernised the business, and now it should grow it. Advancing Analytics helps executive teams turn their data, expertise and IP into scalable products that open new revenue streams.
Databricks Gold Partner · Specialists in Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare & Life Sciences, and Media & Entertainment
The challenge
Platforms don’t make money. Products do.
Most organisations have modernised their data estate, but few have turned it into a source of growth.
While most organisations are still optimising, their competitors are productising, and as AI reshapes how products are discovered, bought and used, the first movers in each market will set the price.
Three signs you’re stuck at “platform”
Your data strategy is reported to the board in savings rather than revenue.
Proprietary data, models and domain expertise that competitors would pay for are used only internally.
AI initiatives impress in pilot but never reach the P&L, because no one owns the product, the customer or the commercial model.
Why Advancing Analytics on Databricks
The platform is the foundation. We build what stands on it.
Many partners can implement Databricks, but few can help you build a growth business on it.
Why built on Databricks
Databricks unifies data, analytics and AI with the security, governance and scale a commercial product demands, while its marketplace and sharing capabilities shorten the path from data asset to paying customer.
Why Advancing Analytics
Databricks Gold Partner: deep platform expertise, so products are built right the first time and scale without costly rework.
Sector depth: Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare & Life Sciences, and Media & Entertainment, where proprietary data is a genuine competitive advantage.
Customer story · US fintech, core banking
From internal data to a product customers pay for
Premium tier
Net-new revenue from the existing customer base
Deeper retention
The software became the primary analytical engine
In the workflow
Conversational AI inside the product
Other partners make your platform better. We make your platform pay.
Talk to a data monetisation specialistHow it works
From cost centre to revenue engine
Databricks provides the foundation; Advancing Analytics helps you build a growth business on top of it.
Find the revenue
Identify which data assets, insights and capabilities have commercial value, and which customers will pay for them.
Build the product
Turn those assets into secure, scalable data and AI products designed for customers rather than internal reporting.
Scale the business
Launch, price and grow with a commercial model that compounds as adoption increases.
Our Itinerary
Thursday 24th September
9am-5:30pm
BDL Day 2 - we'll be on the booth all day as usual.
10:30-10:50am
Head over to the Databricks booth M80 for our lightning talk: Getting the most out of Genie Ontology.
Simon Whiteley & Terry McCann
11:20-11:50am
Session: Platforms Don't Make Money. Products Do. The Missing Link in Data Monetisation
2-2:30pm
Panel: The Data Engineering Talent Gap: Building Teams for the AI Era
Teams & Culture Theatre | Powered by Women in Data®
Featuring Dr Gavita Regunath, CAIO
2-3:30pm
Our executive workshop - From Data Asset to Data Product: Built On Databricks
Hosted by Ust Oldfield (Field CDO) and Simon Whiteley (CTO) from Advancing, alongside Panos Athanasiou (Chief Field Technologist) from Databricks.
The Henley Suite @ Olympia London.
Registration required.
4-4:30pm
Session: Room 404 - Hype not Found
Simon Whiteley, Joe Reis & Holly Smith
Keynote X Theatre
5:30pm
Head home, having done 20,000 steps each day. Time for a cuppa.
Turn Your Data
Into a Revenue Stream
You can only cut a cost once. This whitepaper covers the other side: turning data you hold into real revenue on Databricks. Six ways to package it. What to sell, what to keep. And what changes when your buyer is an AI agent, not a person on a dashboard.
Not ready to talk yet?
Start with these.
Whitepaper
Turning Data into a Revenue Stream: Built On Databricks
A strategic guide by Ust Oldfield, Field Chief Data Officer, Advancing Analytics.
On-demand webinar
Platforms don’t make money. Products do.
The missing link in data monetisation: Ust Oldfield on why platform investment rarely becomes revenue, and how to close the gap.
The questions every data leader
asks first
“We’re not a product company. Is this really for us?”
Most of our clients weren’t either. If you hold proprietary data, domain expertise or analytics your customers already rely on, you have the raw material, and we bring the product and commercial capability needed to package it.
“Is our data even sellable?”
[Answer to come]
“How long until we see revenue?”
[Answer to come]
“What happens in a data monetisation session?”
[Answer to come]
