The Power of Databricks: Real-World Deployments of the Data Lakehouse in Latin America.

Executive Summary

Organizations need data platforms that offer cost efficiency, scalability, and strong governance and security. Databricks stands out as a game-changing solution, blending the flexibility of data lakes with the structure of data warehouses through its unified lakehouse architecture.

Databricks ingests data from databases, enterprise apps, and cloud sources, transforms it in batch and real-time streaming, and efficiently deploys and operates it in production.

With these tools Databricks empowers companies to overcome data challenges, streamline ETL pipelines, data orchestration, and accelerate growth. Our work with clients like Addi, Clip, and RapidSOS showcases how this platform drives measurable business solutions and results.

What is Databricks?

Databricks is a unified, open analytics platform for building, deploying, sharing, and maintaining enterprise-grade data, analytics, and AI solutions at scale. The Databricks Data Intelligence Platform integrates with cloud storage and security in your cloud account and manages and deploys cloud infrastructure for you.

Why Databricks Leads the Way: Databricks Benefits

Databricks is more than just a platform—it's a catalyst for the AI era. Databricks benefits include:

Databricks also simplifies integration with existing cloud infrastructures. As the backbone of AI and analytics, Databricks’ lakehouse architecture offers cost efficiency, seamless scalability, and robust governance. It also supports both AWS and Azure environments.

Databricks Success Stories

However, Databricks it is already delivering tangible, measurable results for organizations across Latin America far beyond any theoretical ideal.

From unifying fragmented pipelines and automating complex ETL processes to deploying scalable AI-ready architectures, Databricks continues to drive digital transformation in the region.

By enabling seamless data integration, advanced governance with Unity Catalog, and real-time analytics at scale, companies overcome long-standing bottlenecks in data management, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency.

Below, we highlight real-world examples of how Mutt Data has leveraged Databricks’ capabilities—such as the Medallion Architecture, Delta Lake, and robust orchestration tools—to deliver accelerated reporting, cost reductions, improved data quality, and stronger business outcomes for leading LATAM enterprises actively driving innovation and growth today.

RapidSOS: Accelerating Emergency Response

Challenge: RapidSOS, a leader in emergency tech, faced slow data ingestion and orchestration issues, delaying critical response times.

Solution: We shifted their pipelines to Databricks Workflows, cutting data refresh times from 24 hours to under 4. Enhanced monitoring improved quality, and compute optimizations reduced costs.

Impact: Data freshness improved dramatically, boosting emergency response effectiveness. Costs dropped 5–15%, and the setup now supports future AI analytics.

Clip: Scaling Loan Data Management and Analytics

Challenge: Clip, Mexico’s top digital payments provider, faced fragmented loan data for its Prestaclip partnership, slowing down analytics and risk management.

Solution: We migrated Clip from Snowflake to a Databricks lakehouse. After that we implemented Databricks’ Medallion Architecture—organizing data into Bronze (raw), Silver (refined), and Gold (curated) layers. Automated pipelines with Databricks and Airflow delivered real-time insights, unifying loan attributes, payments, and collections.

Impact: Month-end reporting dropped from five days to under one, 11 scattered Excel files were eliminated, and data from five teams was unified. Financial teams now make faster, smarter decisions.

Clip: We automated Data Ingestion for the People Team

Challenge: Clip’s People team depended on a manual process to generate HR reports from systems like BambooHR. These tasks involved downloading reports, merging historical data in Google Sheets, and building dashboards and advanced analytics.

Solution: Mutt Data built a secure, modular, and automated Data Lake tailored to the People team's needs. Hosted on Databricks, the platform adheres to Clip’s enterprise data standards and includes advanced access controls, encryption, and monitoring for unauthorized access.

Impact: Reporting now runs automatically, delivering 1 week a month in time savings. Teams work with more reliable data, accurate, complete, and consistently updated. They gain historical insights, tracking how employee or job data evolves daily—something not possible with BambooHR alone. With faster decision-making, fresh data is available every day instead of weekly or monthly. Stronger data governance is ensured through encryption, access controls, and audit logs. A scalable foundation enables future automation and seamless tool integration. Finally, a drastic reduction of human errors was achieved, as reporting processes are now fully automated.

Addi: Implementing a modern Data Lakehouse Architecture

Challenge: Addi, a prominent Colombian fintech company specializing in Buy Now - Pay Later services, required a sophisticated fintech data solution to elevate its analytics capabilities. They sought to remove bottlenecks in data governance, data ingestion, and data transformation, enabling seamless, self-service access to company-wide data.

Solution: Mutt Data deployed Databricks’ lakehouse platform, using Delta Lake as a single source of truth. We streamlined data workflows with tools like Airbyte for ingestion, DBT for transformation, and Airflow for orchestration.

Impact: Addi gained broader lakehouse coverage, faster deployment of data models, and improved governance. This unlocked powerful, data-driven insights for their teams.

Conclusion

Our work with Addi, Clip, and RapidSOS demonstrates how Databricks transforms businesses across various industries, from fintech to emergency response. Thanks to tools like Unity Catalog, Databricks Spark, Databricks Datalakes, Delta Tables and the Medallion Architecture we were able to secure results that drove real impact. There’s still a lot to do however, tools like Databricks Genie pave the way for Generative AI implementations and advancements. Mutt Data’s expertise ensured these solutions were effective, especially in Latin America’s unique landscape. As AI reshapes the world, Databricks and Mutt Data together offer the tools and know-how to lead the charge.

Next Steps

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