Data Impact Awards

At Cloudera, our customers continually inspire us as pioneers, innovators, and thought leaders. With the only data and AI platform that large organizations trust to bring AI to their data anywhere it lives, these visionaries are pushing the boundaries of what's possible, transforming their organizations, industries, and, ultimately, the world. We are proud to be part of their journey.

The Cloudera Data Impact Awards celebrate the remarkable achievements and groundbreaking stories of our customers who are driving meaningful change through data.

We proudly present the 2025 Cloudera Data Impact Awards winners and finalists!

2025 Data Impact Awards Winners and Finalists

Analytics, ML & AI Advantages
Hybrid & Infrastructure Modernization
Open Data Lakehouse & Iceberg Innovation
Data Governance & Fabric Excellence
Data in Motion & Streaming Success

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Analytics, ML and AI Advantages:

Recognizing organizations harnessing Cloudera to power analytics, BI, ML, AI, LLMs, and RAGs.

Winners

Winner for Business Innovation: Bank Mandiri
The bank pioneers AI-driven, hyper-personalized customer engagement at scale.

Winner for Technical Leadership: UOB (Global Technology Office)
UOB transforms its data infrastructure with AI to deliver real-time, personalized experiences.

Winner for Operational Leadership: Taipei Fubon Bank
Fubon Bank embeds advanced AI into marketing operations to elevate real-time customer engagement.

Winner for Innovation: City of Montevideo
This public sector organization uses Cloudera on AWS and Cloudera AI to deliver civic benefits, including safer bike lanes and public data transparency.

Finalists

(Group Technology & Operations)

(Group Data Office)

(Innovation Group)

Last Year Winners and Finalists

Hybrid and Infrastructure Modernization

Recognizing organizations with impressive impacts on infrastructure for data and AI – from public cloud migrations to hybrid expansions or “private” on-premises flexibility.

Winners

Winner for Business Innovation: PTTOR
PTTOR drives revenue growth with real-time, personalized marketing at scale.

Winner for Technical Leadership: Bank Central Asia
BCA accelerates business impact by modernizing ML workflows for faster delivery and revenue growth.

Winner for Operational Leadership: Allianz Australia
Allianz executes a landmark cloud migration in just seven months to achieve exceptional agility and scale.

Winner for Innovation: Telecom Argentina
The top telco in Argentina uses Cloudera to deliver a real-time, hybrid architecture spanning Google Cloud Platform and on-prem data centers.

Finalists

PTTOR

Bank Central Asia

Allianz Technology SE Australia

Telecom Argentina

Last Year Winners and Finalists

Open Data Lakehouse and Iceberg Innovation:

Recognizing organizations that leverage Cloudera (on-premises, hybrid or cloud) to create an open, scalable and high-performance data lakehouse.

Winners

Winner for Business Innovation: Samsung SDS
Samsung modernizes its global supply chain to deliver faster performance, major cost savings, and real-time analytics.

Winner for Technical Leadership: LG Uplus
LG U+ builds an advanced hybrid cloud architecture to deliver flexible, real-time AI services at telecom scale.

Winner for Operational Leadership: Axis Bank
Axis Bank builds a scalable AI feature store to accelerate model deployment and power billions in pre-qualified loans.

Finalists

(Group Data Engineering)

Last Year Winners and Finalists

Data Governance and Fabric Excellence:

Recognizing excellence in building seamless, data governance into an intelligent data fabric that transforms outcomes and operations.

Winners

Winner for Business Innovation: Monetary Authority of Singapore
The central bank of Singapore establishes a scalable, governed data lake to power diverse and secure data services across the organization.

Winner for Technical Leadership: UOB (Data Management Office)
UOB modernizes its enterprise data architecture to deliver real-time insights and AI-driven recommendations at scale.

Winner for Operational Leadership: Standard Chartered Bank
The bank builds a governance-first data fabric to accelerate pipeline development while ensuring security and compliance.

Winner for Organizational Impact: University of Arizona
The University of Arizona uses Cloudera Data Lineage (formerly Octopai) to streamline data governance, reduce manual effort and accelerate new use cases.

Finalists

(Data Management Office)

Last Year Winners and Finalists

Data in Motion and Streaming Success

Recognizing excellence in harnessing the power of data in motion to drive faster responses.

Winners

Winner for Business Innovation: bKash
bKash powers real-time campaigns and fraud detection by processing over 450 million events daily.

Winner for Technical Leadership: OCBC (GDP team)
OCBC enables agile, self-service data pipelines to deliver real-time intelligence across all customer touchpoints.

Winner for Operational Leadership: Vodafone Idea
VI redefines enterprise data agility by unifying real-time pipelines to power sub-second insights and data monetization.