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Experience engineering firm Ciklum Group Ltd. today announced a partnership with database management company ClickHouse Inc. intended to speed up enterprise migrations onto the company’s open-source analytics database.

Ciklum joins the ClickHouse partner program House Mates as a featured launch partner. The target is companies that want artificial intelligence agents and customer-facing dashboards querying live data. Overnight batch reporting is what those buyers are trying to leave behind.

What Ciklum brings is delivery work, not software. The firm has assembled a set of ClickHouse accelerators that open with an assessment of which workloads would gain most from a move off a legacy data platform. Production deployment follows. Rolling the pattern out across the rest of the business comes after that.

Ciklum said the engagements are built to fit a customer’s existing cloud accounts, continuous integration pipelines and governance rules. Reusable code is handed over without a proprietary platform sitting underneath it.

Agentic AI is the reason both companies give for the tie-up. Software agents issue far more queries than human analysts do, and they issue them constantly. ClickHouse sells a column-oriented database for online analytical processing, and its pitch has always been query speed under heavy concurrency.

“Enterprises today aren’t just chasing real-time insights, they’re racing to operationalize AI, from real-time agents to large-scale inference, all while keeping analytics costs in check,” said Kevin Egan, chief revenue officer at ClickHouse. “The hardest part is rarely the proof of concept, it’s getting to production with confidence.”

Ciklum Chief Executive Raj Radhakrishnan noted that every enterprise client is under pressure to implement AI faster without loosening its grip on data governance, before adding that the ClickHouse relationship was a “proven, low-risk path” to the scale that real-time analytics and AI workloads demand.

ClickHouse has been busy this year. Dragoneer Investment Group led a $400 million Series D round for the company in January. The round valued ClickHouse at $15 billion. ClickHouse also acquired Langfuse GmbH that month. The German startup makes open-source monitoring tools for large language model applications.

House Mates opened in May with more than 60 software and services partners across three tiers. ClickHouse said then that its managed cloud service had passed 4,000 customers.

Tanya Bragin, vice president of product and marketing at ClickHouse, spoke with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, in June, where she discussed how the company was bringing real-time analytics to agentic AI.