Announcing the AI Success Frontrunner award winners: honoring enterprise AI excellence

This year's 10 enterprise and non-profit winners show that agentic AI is the strategic key bet for the enterprise

NEW YORK – September 21, 2026 — Dataiku, the Platform for AI Success, today announced the winners of its 2026 AI Success Frontrunner Awards, recognizing ten organizations, including ExxonMobil, Pfizer, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, and Standard Chartered, for using Dataiku to move AI agents out of pilots and into production, generating measurable value.

Now in its sixth year, the AI Success Frontrunner Awards recognize Dataiku customers and partners setting the standard for what responsible, enterprise-grade agentic AI looks like. A panel of Dataiku executives and outside industry experts reviewed each submission's relevance to the category, business impact achieved, and the role Dataiku played in delivering it. This year's winners show how agents are being used to strengthen strategies, improve process efficiencies, and accelerate decision-making across multiple industries, safely and at scale. Six category awards were given, along with three distinctions recognizing standout work in finance, healthcare, and partner-delivered projects.

"Nobody gives an AI agent the keys to a bank transfer or a regulatory filing because the technology is impressive — they do it because they trust it,” says Mark Abramowitz, CMO, Dataiku. “The companies on this list are a preview of what successful agentic AI in the enterprise will look like across industries and countries over the next couple of years.”

The 2026 AI Success Frontrunner Award Winners are:

• Winner of the AI Success Award: ExxonMobil. ExxonMobil business subject-matter experts turned their supply chain know-how into automated, reusable workflows across a network of 40,000 railcars and 800+ marine vessels, saving more than $10 million in operational costs.

Winner of the AI Success Award: ExxonMobil. ExxonMobil business subject-matter experts turned their supply chain know-how into automated, reusable workflows across a network of 40,000 railcars and 800+ marine vessels, saving more than $10 million in operational costs.

• Winner of Agents at Work Award: Bank Hapoalim. At Bank Hapoalim, an AI agent reviews, decides, and executes incoming foreign currency transfers under full governance and human oversight, handling more than 90% of them and reducing handling time from 6 minutes to 2 minutes per task.

Winner of Agents at Work Award: Bank Hapoalim. At Bank Hapoalim, an AI agent reviews, decides, and executes incoming foreign currency transfers under full governance and human oversight, handling more than 90% of them and reducing handling time from 6 minutes to 2 minutes per task.

• Co-winners of the Return on AI Award: Standard Chartered and SLBStandard Chartered built an AI-powered daily scoring engine that prioritizes money-mule risk across a billion transactions, helping to freeze or prevent an estimated $90 million in laundered funds.SLB created a digital asset intelligence ecosystem that monitors 110 oilfield assets globally, delivering up to $15 million in economic impact.

Co-winners of the Return on AI Award: Standard Chartered and SLB

• Standard Chartered built an AI-powered daily scoring engine that prioritizes money-mule risk across a billion transactions, helping to freeze or prevent an estimated $90 million in laundered funds.

Standard Chartered built an AI-powered daily scoring engine that prioritizes money-mule risk across a billion transactions, helping to freeze or prevent an estimated $90 million in laundered funds.

• SLB created a digital asset intelligence ecosystem that monitors 110 oilfield assets globally, delivering up to $15 million in economic impact.

SLB created a digital asset intelligence ecosystem that monitors 110 oilfield assets globally, delivering up to $15 million in economic impact.

• Winner of the Business Builder Award: Aviva. The company designed Q!, a suite of coordinated AI agents that connects fragmented audit knowledge and surfaces traceable evidence in seconds, seeing a 95% efficiency gain in comparative risk analysis.

Winner of the Business Builder Award: Aviva. The company designed Q!, a suite of coordinated AI agents that connects fragmented audit knowledge and surfaces traceable evidence in seconds, seeing a 95% efficiency gain in comparative risk analysis.

• Winner of the Governance by Design Award: Pfizer. Pfizer built RAISE-Ethicara, a bias detection and mitigation layer developed in Dataiku that automatically evaluates fairness and generates audit-ready documentation across its AI portfolio, reducing manual effort.

Winner of the Governance by Design Award: Pfizer. Pfizer built RAISE-Ethicara, a bias detection and mitigation layer developed in Dataiku that automatically evaluates fairness and generates audit-ready documentation across its AI portfolio, reducing manual effort.

• Winner of the AI for Good Award: One Acre Fund. Non-technical business operations teams developed an OCR tool that cross-references scanned farmer forms with digital survey data, reducing the workload from 1,000+ days to 300–500 days.

Winner of the AI for Good Award: One Acre Fund. Non-technical business operations teams developed an OCR tool that cross-references scanned farmer forms with digital survey data, reducing the workload from 1,000+ days to 300–500 days.

• Winner of the Finance Use Case Distinction: Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. The company built a governed AI foundation to increase efficiency.

Winner of the Finance Use Case Distinction: Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. The company built a governed AI foundation to increase efficiency.

• Winner of the Healthcare Use Case Distinction: Novo Nordisk. A senior analyst created a Dataiku-powered Text-to-SQL assistant that answers natural-language questions of enterprise healthcare claims data in under 30 seconds.

Winner of the Healthcare Use Case Distinction: Novo Nordisk. A senior analyst created a Dataiku-powered Text-to-SQL assistant that answers natural-language questions of enterprise healthcare claims data in under 30 seconds.

• Winner of the Partner Use Case Distinction: Corios. Corios converted a major regional bank's credit risk models across 10 loan portfolios to a governed Dataiku + Databricks system, passing Model Risk Management sign-off and KPMG audit review.

Winner of the Partner Use Case Distinction: Corios. Corios converted a major regional bank's credit risk models across 10 loan portfolios to a governed Dataiku + Databricks system, passing Model Risk Management sign-off and KPMG audit review.

You can read more about the 2026 AI Success Frontrunner Award winners on the Dataiku blog: https://www.dataiku.com/blog/frontrunner-awards-2026-honoring-enterprise-ai-excellence

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