Why the next category in enterprise analytics will enable business outcomes, not just insights
by Marc Solomon and Marcello Pedersen
Figure 1: Decision Execution Platforms by Databricks Forward Deployed Engineering
Decision Execution Platforms (DEPs) are a new category of enterprise analytics from Databricks Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE). Rather than surfacing insights alone, DEPs run executive decision loops end to end that impact the bottom-line: signal, decision, execution, and tangible business outcome, all on governed Databricks infrastructure.
Global enterprise spend on BI software reached $34.8B in 2025 and is forecast to hit $72.2B by 2034. The category is now one of the largest in enterprise software.
