dbt Labs Named Google Cloud Partner of the Year for Data Pipelines and Governance

New updates have been reported about dbt Labs.

dbt Labs has been awarded Google Cloud’s 2026 Partner of the Year for Data and Analytics: Data Pipelines and Governance, underscoring its strategic role in building AI-ready data foundations on Google Cloud. The recognition highlights dbt Labs’ contribution to helping joint customers standardize and govern data transformation at scale, improving the speed and reliability of analytics and AI initiatives across global BigQuery deployments.

Thousands of organizations now run dbt on Google BigQuery, using dbt as a unified transformation layer to consolidate complex workflows, enhance orchestration, and increase operational efficiency. Since dbt Labs launched on Google Cloud Marketplace a year ago, adoption has accelerated across industries and the company’s partner organization has also secured two Google Partner All Star awards, signaling deepening commercial and technical alignment with Google Cloud.

dbt Labs positions its technology as a standard for AI-ready structured data, powered by its Fusion engine to deliver performance, context, and trust for large-scale analytics programs. By integrating Google AI capabilities directly into dbt workflows, the partnership aims to provide enterprises with governed, well-documented pipelines that reduce data risk while enabling faster development of AI models and analytics products.

Executives at both companies framed the award as validation of dbt Labs’ role in underpinning enterprise AI strategies with robust data governance and documentation. The collaboration is intended to help customers move from experimentation to production-grade AI by ensuring data quality and lineage, which can directly impact time-to-value, compliance posture, and the scalability of analytics teams.

With more than 80,000 data teams globally using dbt, including large enterprises, the enhanced visibility and credibility from Google Cloud’s recognition may further strengthen dbt Labs’ position in the cloud analytics ecosystem. While financial details were not disclosed, the award and marketplace traction suggest continued growth opportunities for dbt Labs through increased consumption on Google Cloud, expanded partner engagement, and deeper integration of AI capabilities into its core platform.