Zalando simplifies data processes and procurement with AWS Marketplace

The company adopted Databricks in 2018 and Starburst in 2019 to optimize and simplify its data processes. Zalando chose to procure Databricks and Starburst from AWS Marketplace to streamline their supplier base by procuring several solutions from one supplier and getting unified payment terms. In addition to receiving a single bill for AWS Marketplace services, the company could apply 50 percent of the charges towards its annual volume commitment. Starburst has enabled data analysts to access and combine data from all data sources more efficiently, without the need for customized extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines to ingest data into a data warehouse first. Databricks helped Zalando increase overall productivity of its data engineers and analysts due to its large-scale data transformation capabilities.