HighByte®, an industrial software company, today announced a partnership with Databricks, the Data and AI company, to help manufacturers and industrial companies tap into their operational data for analytics, machine learning, and agentic use cases. With its native Zerobus integration, HighByte supports the Databricks Data + AI Platform’s direct streaming interface and builds upon a comprehensive set of already supported integrations with the open analytics platform.

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According to the State of AI Agents 2026 report published by Databricks, only 19% of organizations have deployed AI agents, and mostly to a limited extent. Primary hurdles include data governance and data quality. As agents gain more autonomy, the need for rigorous guardrails becomes critical. HighByte and Databricks are helping industrial companies overcome these hurdles with a deeply integrated solution that merges and models data from brownfield industrial systems into governed, AI-ready datasets that flow directly into Databricks for enterprise-wide insights and agentic AI use cases.

Executive Quotes

“HighByte’s integration with Databricks, now extended through native Zerobus connectivity, helps manufacturers unlock dormant factory data by transforming fragmented signals into governed, AI-ready datasets that stream directly into the Databricks Data + AI Platform. This creates a consistent foundation to model cost, quality, and productivity drivers across the network, laying the groundwork for lights-out manufacturing. With a shared, trusted data layer, both humans and AI agents can act on real-time insights, giving COOs a scalable way to close the loop between insight and action across every plant.”

— Shiv Trisal, Global Industrials GTM at Databricks

“HighByte bridges the gap between Databricks’ analytical and ML/AI capabilities and the real-time decisions that must happen on the factory floor. The closed loop between the edge and the cloud is what turns analytics investments into measurable outcomes for manufacturers. That is what our customers are asking for, and it is exactly what this partnership delivers.”

— Tony Paine, Chief Executive Officer at HighByte

Zerobus Interoperability for Manufacturing

The Databricks Zerobus connector available now in HighByte Intelligence Hub offers direct, low-latency streaming ingest into Delta tables without intermediate event streaming services. The connector supports schema evolution, automatically creating and altering Delta tables based on model definitions. HighByte offers comprehensive integration across the full spectrum of interaction patterns with the Databricks Data + AI Platform, from bulk and streaming ingest to query. This range of solution patterns—spanning telemetry, transactional, historical, and file-based industrial data—is critical for the diverse architectures and requirements of large industrial companies.

Innovation at Gerdau

Gerdau, one of the largest steel producers in the Americas, needed to create a simpler, more repeatable approach for connecting diverse OT and IT data sources. They selected HighByte Intelligence Hub to simplify how operational data is integrated, contextualized, and made available to corporate platforms, advanced analytics, and digital twins. By leveraging the Intelligence Hub’s native connectivity with Databricks, Gerdau was able to streamline the delivery of contextualized industrial data into the Databricks Data + AI Platform, reduce the need to develop and maintain custom integrations, and accelerate the deployment of new data-driven initiatives.

“HighByte has helped us simplify the integration of industrial data into Databricks and significantly reduce the time it takes for operational data to become available to our digital applications,” said Felipe Amorim, Global Tech Architecture Manager at Gerdau. “By contextualizing data closer to the source and delivering it efficiently into Databricks, we can provide our digital twins with fresh, contextualized industrial data while accelerating the development and deployment of new solutions. More importantly, this creates a trusted industrial data foundation that opens new opportunities to apply AI to our operations at scale.”

PackIOT, preferred distribution partner for HighByte in Brazil, supported Gerdau in the deployment of HighByte Intelligence Hub. PackIOT also provides ongoing technical support and solution expertise, helping Gerdau operate and evolve its Industrial DataOps architecture as new use cases and requirements emerge.

FAQs

How has the relationship between HighByte and Databricks evolved?

HighByte is a Databricks ISV Partner specializing in Manufacturing, Transportation, and Energy. For years, HighByte customers have integrated with the Databricks Data + AI Platform through the Intelligence Hub’s cloud storage and event streaming connections. The first native connection between HighByte Intelligence Hub and the Databricks Data + AI Platform was released on July 1, 2025, with the introduction of the Databricks Storage connector for file-based ingestion. On November 19, 2025, HighByte expanded interoperability with its release of the Databricks SQL connector supporting cloud-to-edge and reverse ETL patterns. The partners share a growing industrial customer base across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.

What is HighByte Intelligence Hub?

HighByte Intelligence Hub is an edge-native DataOps software solution built for industrial data. The Intelligence Hub enables manufacturers to securely collect, merge, model, and deliver ready-to-consume datasets to target applications and AI agents without writing or maintaining code.

How can I access the software?

HighByte Intelligence Hub version 4.4 with native Zerobus connectivity was released for general availability on March 31, 2026. Visit highbyte.com to start your free trial or contact HighByte or an authorized distributor to purchase a subscription license.

About HighByte

HighByte is an industrial software company addressing the data architecture and integration challenges faced by global manufacturers as they digitally transform. HighByte Intelligence Hub, the company’s proven Industrial DataOps software, provides modeled, ready-to-use data to the Cloud using a codeless interface to speed integration time and accelerate analytics and AI adoption. Learn more at https://highbyte.com.

HighByte is a registered trademark of HighByte, Inc.

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