Vanessa Simmons and Solange Jacob account for Pythian’s three September 2026 finalist honors. Behind the shortlist are years of partnership work, mentoring and a push to help enterprise employees use AI.
Across 15,000 monthly database tickets, Pythian says AI agents prepare the first runbook before an engineer steps in. Its reported gains reveal a workflow built around people, training and continuous upkeep.
The alarms, the stalled AI pilot, the spreadsheet nobody trusts. Find the right Pythian service across eight buying paths—and know who keeps it running after launch.

The model is rarely what keeps an AI pilot from becoming daily work. The missing layer is the data foundation, workflow engineering and round-the-clock operational discipline that makes intelligence dependable.
Pythian turned 150 dense annual reports into a digital analyst that answers in seconds—without trading away the impartiality that makes the research valuable.
Aging infrastructure made routine answers slow and expensive. Pythian helped UMass move analytics to Oracle’s cloud without disruption—and put self-service reporting in staff hands.

FYI’s growth had trapped its team in a cycle of slow queries, surprise outages and bigger cloud bills. One carefully tested PostgreSQL redesign turned a giant table into manageable pieces—and gave the company permission to think about growth again.

Thousands of applications stand behind Wayfair’s push for better shopping experiences. Matt Ferrari explains why Pythian’s ability to understand the business—and code alongside his team—mattered to the choice of partner.

From 250 milliseconds to 40: specialist database support helped SoundCloud tackle slow reads. The partnership also addressed a more human bottleneck—engineers waiting for engineering help.

After three decades across banking, industrial technology, cloud and data, Pythian CTO Paul Lewis has arrived at a blunt test for AI: does it change the work, and can the architecture survive what comes next?

At Pythian, she builds cloud alliances. At the cheese board, she teaches people to notice what they nearly missed. Vanessa Simmons has made a career of turning good introductions into lasting ecosystems.

After three company sales and decades spent near technology's turning points, the Pythian CEO is applying an old operator's discipline to enterprise AI: prepare the data, bring people along, and move while the opening is real.

AllSaints rebuilt its digital backbone on Google Cloud, trading idle servers for elastic infrastructure. The result: lower costs, faster pages and a migration customers never saw.