The world of data and AI is transforming at a breakneck pace, and 2025 marked a definitive shift from predictive insights to autonomous action with AI agents. Organizations are now masterfully combining human expertise with AI systems that can act, make decisions, and deliver tangible business impact.
This year marks the fifth anniversary of the Dataiku Frontrunner Awards program. The 2025 Dataiku Frontrunner Awards recognize the trailblazing organizations and individuals who are not just keeping up, but actively shaping this new AI landscape.
This year, we saw unprecedented innovation, with submissions pouring in from around the globe and the competition was fierce, showcasing how Dataiku is The Universal AI Platform™ for the enterprise.
We are thrilled to unveil the winners and finalists who are truly pushing the boundaries of what is possible with analytics and AI (including GenAI and agents) in Dataiku, and advancing the next era of enterprise intelligence.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The 2025 Frontrunner awards also celebrated the critical work of building a robust, efficient, and cost-controlled foundation for AI initiatives.
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.
This award honors organizations that dramatically accelerate the speed, throughput, and consistency of data and AI work.
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.
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.
The 2025 Frontrunner awards also recognize organizations delivering groundbreaking value creation across key global sectors:
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.
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: Trumid for “Trumid + Dataiku: Delivering Real-Time Bond Pricing and Workflow Automation Solutions.”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.”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.
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.
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.
This award features successful partnerships between Dataiku, partner organizations, and customers to bring a use case to fruition faster, smarter, and/or better.
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.
Most Impactful AI for Good Story: This award puts the spotlight on making a positive impact on the world.
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.