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Databricks
ShopifyHow Shopify Runs Partner Exchange on Unity Catalog
Shopify, an information technology organization in Canada, uses Unity Catalog from Databricks to support partner data exchange for data platform and lines of business.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Fewer stalled items because secure data sharing has a clear owner |
| Productivity | Handoffs in partner data exchange sit in a shared queue instead of a mailbox trail |
| Capability | New joiners can see how partner data exchange actually runs |
Story
Shopify is based in Canada and runs information technology operations at a scale where secure data sharing cannot live in side channels. Data platform and lines of business were reconciling competing copies of the same work, which slowed partner data exchange and hid who owned the next step.
The company runs partner data exchange on Databricks, with Unity Catalog as the product data platform and lines of business actually open. Databricks provides a lakehouse platform for data engineering, analytics, and AI, with Unity Catalog and Mosaic AI for governed models. For Shopify, that means data platform and lines of business can open one workflow, see secure data sharing, and let neighboring teams join without inventing a parallel stack.
Public materials confirm the companies and products. They do not always publish a single verified KPI for this pairing, so the outcome here is operational: clearer ownership, fewer stalled handoffs, and a shared record for secure data sharing.
