Story
How Asahi Kasei Runs Partner Exchange on Unity Catalog
Asahi Kasei, a materials organization in Japan, uses Unity Catalog from Databricks to support partner data exchange for data platform and lines of business.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Handoffs in partner data exchange sit in a shared queue instead of a mailbox trail |
| Risk and compliance | Unity Catalog is the governed place data platform and lines of business use for partner data exchange |
| Capability | New joiners can see how partner data exchange actually runs |
Story
Materials work at Asahi Kasei spans more than one site, even when headquarters sits in Japan. Secure data sharing was splitting across regional habits. Data platform and lines of business asked for a shared way to run partner data exchange without freezing local judgment.
Databricks (Unity Catalog) is what they standardized on. Databricks provides a lakehouse platform for data engineering, analytics, and AI, with Unity Catalog and Mosaic AI for governed models. Asahi Kasei uses it as the system of record for secure data sharing, with data platform and lines of business as the primary operators and other groups coming in through the same queue.
Leaders get a picture they can actually walk. Teams get fewer mystery statuses. The story is about operating change, not an unpublished percentage.