Databricks

The EY split has been placed on pause by the firm, as EY US auditors campaign for a larger slice of the tax practice post-divide.

Data clean rooms are allowing multiple parties to combine and analyze their data in a protected environment.

EY has entered into an alliance with Databricks, a data lakehouse company, to help organizations simplify and democratize data, analytics, and AI.

Databricks has enhanced its Lakehouse Platform at the Data + AI Summit, introducing features like improved data warehousing, a new analytics marketplace for data sharing, secure data collaboration through data cleanrooms, and automatic cost optimization for ETL operations, aimed at facilitating business intelligence, AI, and ML on a unified platform.

Big Tech is muscling in on health big time: look no further than recent acquisitions such as the Microsoft-Nuance and Oracle-Cerner mega-deals.