Dataiku Frontrunner Awards 2025: Celebrating Agentic AI Excellence

The Agentic Leap: New Categories for a New Era of AI

A major theme for the 2025 awards was the evolution beyond simple prediction into autonomous action. The new main categories specifically recognize this pioneering work, highlighting teams that are embedding intelligence directly into their operations.

NEW! Best Agentic AI Use Case

This award honors organizations leveraging agentic AI solutions in Dataiku to build autonomous workflows that act on behalf of users. It celebrates innovative use cases where AI agents orchestrate complex tasks, make decisions, and drive business outcomes, marking the next evolution of enterprise AI adoption beyond prediction and into autonomous action.

• Winner (Amplifying Human Expertise): SoftBank Corp. for "From Meetings to Momentum: Building an AI-Powered Sales Operating Model With Dataiku and SoftBank Corp."
• Winner (Mission-Critical Process Transformation): Novartis Healthcare for their "MLR Regulatory Automation: The Novartis GenAI Solution."
• Winner (Agents for Every Employee): European Air Transport (DHL) for "Scema:- The 10-Minute Data Pipeline."
• Finalist: Wisr Finance for “Using AI to Review Lending Exceptions at Wisr Finance.”
• Finalist: F.Hoffmann-La Roche AG for “Lex: Unified UI for Group Patent AI Tools - F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG.”

NEW! Best AI Evaluation & Safety Program

This award recognizes organizations that most effectively embed safety, responsible AI, and trust into every stage of their AI lifecycles (from data sourcing and model development to AI agent deployment) using Dataiku. It recognizes holistic programs that treat safety as a first-class product feature, ensuring AI initiatives drive value without compromising compliance, fairness, or public confidence.

• Winner (Best Evaluation & Safety Program): Standard Chartered Bank for "KeyMark: Explicit Data Trust, Measurable Business Confidence - Standard Chartered Bank."
• Winner (Best AI for Learning & Safety): The Airline Pilot Club for “Strategic & Efficient AI-Powered Pilot Career Management - Airline Pilot Club.”

NEW! Best AI Democratization Program

This award rewards organizations that have opened the door to autonomous AI for everyone, from data scientists to business analysts and citizen developers, using Dataiku. It honors holistic programs that turn AI into a self-service capability, embedded in daily workflows and supported by the right culture, skills, and guardrails.

• Winner: PrivatBank for "PrivatBank's AI Transformation: Empowering Business With Dataiku to Overcome Bottlenecks."
• Finalist: Johnson & Johnson for “​​BEAMM AI: J&J Vision's AI-Powered Marketing ROI Studio.”
• Finalist: JK Lakshmi Cement LTD for “Central Data Platform - Data Democratization - JK LAKSHMI CEMENT LTD.”

Driving Foundational Value: Platform, Productivity, & ROI

The 2025 Frontrunner awards also celebrated the critical work of building a robust, efficient, and cost-controlled foundation for AI initiatives.

Best Modern Data Platform Initiative

This award recognizes organizations that are transforming their analytics landscape by replacing legacy systems and consolidating fragmented tools into a unified, scalable AI platform. It celebrates forward-thinking teams that drive agility, reduce complexity, and enable smarter decision-making through the strategic adoption of modern analytics frameworks and centralized platforms like Dataiku, moving beyond isolated point solutions.

• Winner: Aimpoint Digital for "The Power of a Partner: How Aimpoint Helped Accelerate an Enterprise-Wide Migration to Dataiku."
• Finalist: DZ Bank AG for “DZ BANK: Empowering Capital Market Sales through Collaborative Platform.”

Best Data Team Productivity Showcase

This award honors organizations that dramatically accelerate the speed, throughput, and consistency of data and AI work.

• Winner: Generali France for "From Data to Action: Reinventing Debt Recovery With AI at Generali."
• Finalist: PT. Bank Rakyat Indonesia for “PREEDA: Purposeful Reuse and Efficient Exploratory Data Analysis at PT. Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk / BRI.”

Best Efficient AI Architecture

This award honors organizations that designs and operates a future-proof, enterprise-grade AI architecture in Dataiku that scales seamlessly under heavy workloads while keeping unit costs firmly under control. It celebrates teams that master the challenges of agility, elasticity and control, proving that big, bold AI ambitions can coexist with disciplined FinOps.

• Winner: Aviva PLC & Tata Consultancy Services for “Modernization of API Hosting Platform with Aviva PLC & Tata Consultancy Services ltd.”
• Finalist: Renault Group for “Sustainable Data Operations With Dataiku: Governance, Automation, and Cost Optimization at Renault Group.”
• Finalist: Maybank for “Credit Decisioning Model for RSME Digital Loan – Maybank.”

Best Return on AI Award

This award celebrates the organizations that deliver the highest, clearest, and most auditable financial return from a Dataiku-powered AI initiative. Quantifications of bottom-line impact include revenue generated, cost savings, margin uplift, working-capital gains, or risk reduction, directly attributable to their solution with Dataiku.

• Winner: Experian for “Experian's Automated Display Optimization.”
• Finalist: Ooredoo Qatar for “Growth Hacking CVM Framework Unified Data Science Ecosystem With Dataiku at Ooredoo Qatar.”

Industry & Ecosystem Excellence

The 2025 Frontrunner awards also recognize organizations delivering groundbreaking value creation across key global sectors:

AI for Banking

This award celebrates pioneering banking institutions that are leveraging data and AI to transform core services, enhance risk management, improve regulatory compliance, or personalize customer experiences at scale.

• Winner: Credit Agricole Group Solutions for “IMA - Early Warning at Credit Agricole Group Solutions.”
• Finalist: RHB Bank for “Predictive Card Fraud Detection at RHB Bank.”

AI for Fintech

This award recognizes innovative financial technology companies that utilize advanced analytics and AI to disrupt traditional financial services, build new market platforms, and solve complex, real-time pricing and workflow challenges.

Winner:Trumidn for “Trumid + Dataiku: Delivering Real-Time Bond Pricing and Workflow Automation Solutions.”

AI for Insurance

This award recognizes insurance organizations that use AI to transform underwriting, automate claims processing, enhance actuarial modeling, and deliver more empathetic, customer-centric services.

Winner:Aviva for “Unified for Impact: Transforming Chronic Illness Management With AI-Driven Analytics.”

AI for Healthcare & Life Sciences

This award honors innovative healthcare and pharmaceutical companies that develop new technologies or expand existing applications through data and AI to accelerate R&D, optimize clinical trials, and improve patient safety and outcomes.

• Winner: Genentech for “A Scalable Deep Learning Approach for Real-Time Monitoring of Biopharmaceutical Processes at Genentech.”
• Finalist: ZS Associates for “Patient Journey Knowledge Agent.”

AI for Manufacturing & Energy

This award showcases leading organizations that leverage analytics and AI to augment or streamline manufacturing processes, optimize energy consumption, enhance predictive maintenance, and drive supply chain resilience.

• Winner: Rio Tinto for “SED + Automating the End-to-End Asset Health Model Industrialization Process at Rio Tinto.”
• Finalist: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd for “Building a New Development Culture: How Dataiku Accelerated Productivity and Innovation at Sumitomo Rubber Industries.”

AI for Retail, CPG, & Luxury

This award highlights trailblazing retail, consumer packaged goods (CPG), and luxury companies that harness analytics and AI to revolutionize customer experiences, optimize supply chains, and drive operational efficiencies.

• Winner: Ralph Lauren for “Optimizing the E-Commerce Experience With AI at Ralph Lauren.”
• Finalist: Switz Group for “The Retention & Stales Playbook at Switz Group.”

Best Partner Acceleration Use Case

This award features successful partnerships between Dataiku, partner organizations, and customers to bring a use case to fruition faster, smarter, and/or better.

• Winner: Tiger Analytics for “All-in-One Marketing Mix Platform for a Premier Global Biopharmaceutical Leader With Tiger Analytics.”
• Finalist: Aimpoint Digital for “Boosting Performance With Aimpoint Digital's Plugins.”
• Finalist: Beinex Consulting for “Beinex Consulting Leverages AI to Reimagine Internal Audits.”

The Human Element: Individual and Impact

AI transformation is ultimately about empowering people. We also recognized the personal and societal impact of Dataiku use through this year’s Frontrunner Awards:

NEW! Dataiku’s Individual Excellence Award: Celebrating personal and professional transformation, this award recognizes individuals whose careers have been significantly impacted by their Dataiku journey. Whether through upskilling, transitioning into new roles, or leading impactful data and AI initiatives, this category showcases how Dataiku empowers people to grow, lead, and thrive in a data-driven world.

• Winner: Paquita Chang, a Portfolio Analytics Lead at Roche, recognized for growth and innovation in portfolio analytics leadership to foster a cross-functional community of practice.
• Finalist: Christie Hampton, a Senior AI & ML Engineer at Ryder System Inc., for her story on “Redefining What's Possible With Dataiku: A Journey of Accessible AI, Resilience, and Innovation.”

Most Impactful AI-for-Good Story: This award puts the spotlight on making a positive impact on the world.

• Winner: Yale University for "Geospatial Discoveries With Actionable Insights for Climate Risk and Financial Services."
• Finalist: ODALC for “Mapping the Future of Latin American Architectural Theories With Dataiku at ODALC.”

Join the Celebration of Agentic AI Excellence

Congratulations to all the 2025 winners, finalists, and participants! Your commitment to innovation in analytics and AI (notably GenAI and agents!) is an inspiration to the entire community. The submissions highlighted above provide a blueprint for how organizations can successfully transform their operations and drive tangible value with Dataiku.