Case Study: Ellation achieves nearly 50% reduction in cluster runtime and faster data science with Databricks

Ellation - Customer Case Study

Ellation, the over‑the‑top video company behind Crunchyroll and VRV, needed a better way to power its recommendation engine and bridge gaps between data science, engineering and the business. Teams suffered from poor collaboration, self‑provisioned EMR clusters that were often left running (driving up compute costs), and lost code when clusters were terminated before work was saved.

Databricks provided a unified analytics platform that standardized data engineering and data science, democratized access to data, and improved cross‑team collaboration. Automated cluster management cut cluster run time by nearly 50%, and an interactive workspace doubled data science productivity, enabling analytics work in about half the time and reducing operational costs.

Ellation

Pradeep Dunna

Senior Manager of Data Science