Tieto achieves Databricks Silver Partner status and expands its data and AI capabilities across enterprise transformation and healthcare innovation

Tieto today announced it has achieved Silver partner status within the Databricks Partner Program, demonstrating the company’s rapid growth and deepening expertise in data engineering, analytics, and AI. This milestone reflects Tieto’s strategic commitment to building next generation data and AI capabilities on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

As organizations accelerate their efforts to operationalize AI, Databricks has become a key enabler for unifying data, governance, and machine learning at scale. Strengthening this partnership is therefore a central pillar of Tieto’s long-term AI strategy.

To meet growing customer demand, Tieto Tech Consulting is launching a structured longer-term competence shift program focused on expanding and elevating its existing Databricks capabilities. The initiative includes:

• Significant expansion of the data and AI team, with new roles in data engineering, machine learning, and platform operations— including a commitment to doubling the number of Databricks specialists in 2026 to support increasingly complex AI and data modernization initiatives
• Comprehensive training and certification tracks aligned with Databricks’ professional standards, and
• A long‑term roadmap to build one of the strongest Databricks‑focused delivery capabilities in the Nordics and Central Europe.
  
  

“Achieving Silver Partner status is an important milestone, but it’s only the beginning,” says Pär Johansson, Interim Managing Director, Tieto Tech Consulting. “Databricks is becoming the backbone of modern AI architectures, and our investments reflect the scale of opportunity we see for our customers.”

To enable better customer outcomes, Tieto Tech Consulting is also investing in AI platform capabilities that enable clients to build secure, scalable, and governed environments for data, machine learning, and generative AI. These investments position Tieto to guide customers through the full AI lifecycle — from data readiness and platform engineering to model development, deployment, and ongoing optimization.

“As organizations move from experimentation to production-ready AI, the focus shifts to delivering real business value,” added Pär Johansson. “With Databricks as a key part of our strategy, we can support clients end-to-end — from building data foundations to designing, implementing, and operating secure, and high-performance data platforms.”

The strengthened Databricks partnership is already delivering tangible results in healthcare. As a leading provider of health and social care software in the Nordics, Tieto Caretech has successfully used Databricks to bring together data lakehouses and data warehouses into a unified product known as Lifecare Data Platform.

Lifecare Data Platform enables effective use of healthcare data for medical research and operational development, supporting better care at lower cost. Today, 14 out of 21 Finnish wellbeing services counties and HUS Helsinki University Hospital in Finland use Lifecare Data Platform to consolidate fragmented data from multiple sources into a centralized data lakehouse, leveraging advanced technology for automated data ingestion, modelling and storage.

“With a data-driven approach and deep domain expertise, we help our customers transform healthcare by turning complex data into clear, actionable insights that drive research, innovation and better outcomes. Building the Lifecare Data Platform on Databricks was a strategic choice that now enables us to use AI to unlock greater value from healthcare data and improve productivity in ways that were not possible just a few years ago,” says Ari Järvelä, Managing Director, Tieto Caretech.

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Tieto is a leading software and digital engineering services company with global market reach and capabilities. We provide customers across different industries with mission-critical solutions through our specialized software businesses Tieto Caretech, Tieto Banktech and Tieto Indtech as well as Tieto Tech Consulting business. Our around 14 000 talented vertical software, design, cloud and AI experts are dedicated to empowering our customers to succeed and innovate with latest technology.

Tieto’s annual revenue is approximately EUR 2 billion. The company’s shares are listed on the NASDAQ exchange in Helsinki and Stockholm, as well as on Oslo Børs. www.tieto.com