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- The challenge: In AI-native companies, agents now shape compute costs, usage pricing, and revenue recognition by the hour. Finance tools built on monthly extracts and spreadsheets surface what moved the margin weeks after it moved. - The solution: Genie One gives finance a data-smart AI coworke...
* Coach’s Corner is a Databricks App that turns 25 fps match tracking data into a sub-second 2D/3D tactical bench with replays, event analytics, a scout chat, and an opponent-dossier agent. * It runs on one platform, powered by Databricks end-to-end. Lakeflow pipelines refine 51 million rows thr...
• Get day-one access to Meta's new Muse Spark 1.1 (and any model) through Model Provider Services in Unity AI Gateway. Register providers once in Unity Catalog to eliminate API key sprawl and centralize access across every team. • Teams can use familiar Unity Catalog permissions, rate limits, an...
* Cushman & Wakefield built its enterprise AI core over four years by embedding technologists directly into business units under a product operating model — prioritizing trust and human behavior over the "AI pilot craze." * A capital investment model that requires technology initiatives to be co...
* Getting the data foundation right (continuous capture, harmonization, and governance) is what actually unlocks trustworthy AI in science; AI trained on fragmented data can't be trusted. * Luma and Databricks are complementary by design: Luma brings scientific context and instrument connectivit...
* Unified context makes AI decision-ready. Generic assistants stall on real decisions because context is scattered; a shared, governed layer lets AI coworkers work from the same view of the business as leaders and frontline teams. * Genie One is the AI coworker for real work. Genie One uses unif...
* A sample Databricks App (FastAPI + React) that scores credit card transactions for fraud in real time using Model Serving route optimization for low-latency inference and Lakebase Postgres for online feature and profile lookups. * Fast inference alone is not enough. The app pairs route-optimiz...
* Industry-first Context Engineering certification: Launched at Data+AI Summit, the new Databricks Certified Context Engineer Associate beta exam validates the technical depth required to curate optimal context windows and build reliable agentic systems * Expanded learning catalog: Databricks ha...
* Define trusted context for analytics and AI: Metric views create governed business definitions, while vector retrieval, geospatial types, and richer SQL primitives bring AI-native analytics into Spark. * Reach Spark from more applications: Spark Connect, Arrow-first Python execution, improved...
* Inkling, the open-weights model from Thinking Machines Lab, is now available on the Databricks platform through Unity AI Gateway, making it easy to build and deploy AI agents and coding applications on enterprise data. * Build with an open-weights model optimized for coding, agentic reasoning,...
* Educational institutions face challenges in scaling the review of call center quality for adviser services (financial aid, admissions, enrollment), which involves both manual and automated tasks, such as transcribing and analyzing conversations. * Databricks applies GenAI to transcribe calls a...
* External agents break at scale: When AI agents run in a separate stack, enterprises face compounding penalties: fragmented governance, rising egress costs, sluggish multi-hop latency, and observability gaps that make production deployment risky. * Governance cannot be retrofitted: Post-hoc con...
* Genie One is now available as a native mobile app for iOS and Android, putting the data-smart AI coworker in everyone's pocket so business users can get answers wherever they work. * From your phone, users can chat with Genie, schedule tasks, explore dashboards, and use apps, all grounded in t...
*Why omni-channel complexity has pushed retail finance into the driver's seat of margin, cash, and markdown strategy. *Why ontology and governance have become boardroom words for finance leaders in an age of agentic commerce. *Why a data-smart AI coworker is the breakthrough unlock finance team...
- Automated Database Migration & Modernization: Partners with specialized accelerators that automate the risk assessment, schema conversion, and code migration from legacy systems like Oracle, Informatica, and SQL Server, using Lakebase database branching to safely rehearse cut-overs. - Statef...
• The attack: An indirect prompt injection breaks data theft into ordinary steps: read a document, read another, write a summary, and send it out. No single agent or model can catch this, because each step is within its permissions and looks fine in isolation. The attack is only visible across th...
* External engines, including Apache Spark, Apache Flink, and DuckDB, can now create and write to UC managed Delta tables, with governance enforced centrally in Unity Catalog * UC managed tables use Predictive Optimization to improve query performance and lower storage costs while remaining full...
* For data-intensive and AI-powered Python apps, the hosting decision and the data architecture decision are the same decision — where your app runs determines what it can reach, at what latency and under whose governance controls. * Python hosting environments range from shared servers to fully...
* Acxiom is building an end-to-end agentic marketing value chain — from identity resolution and audience planning to media buying, campaign activation and performance analytics — and the foundation making it possible is a modern, cloud-native data architecture. * Workflows that used to require m...
* What it is: Feature Views are a managed framework for defining an ML feature once and using it everywhere — the same definition powers historical data for experimentation and training, and production pipelines for batch or real-time inference. * The challenge it solves: Productionizing real-ti...
* The gap: Ambulatory growth stalls when access, referral, capacity, and financial data sit in disconnected systems. * The solution: Health Catalyst's Ambulatory Intelligence combines AI with nearly two decades of healthcare improvement expertise to explain what's driving the numbers and where t...
- Our fifth customer hackathon turned into a hands-on tour of everything Databricks Genie can do, and the ten projects make a great curriculum. - The three tracks line up with the three ways to use Genie: talk to your data with Genie Agents, build with Genie Code, and compose Genie into agents,...
* Synapse customers are stuck stitching together Dedicated SQL, Serverless SQL, Spark Pools, and ADF — paying for duplicated governance, extra tooling, and operational overhead on a warehouse that was never built for ML, streaming, and AI. * The blog is a practical, field-tested playbook for mig...
Databricks shares results from its internal coding benchmark, evaluating coding agents on a multi-million line codebase to optimize engineering cost and performance.
* Most analytics platform evaluations focus on dashboards and features. The decision that actually matters is whether analytics, AI and agents run on the same unified data foundation. * Seven weighted criteria — from architecture and openness to total cost of ownership — give teams a structured...
* Imperial College London modernized its dementia research platform to unify IoT, clinical and research data in a scalable analytics environment for researchers and clinicians. * The new architecture separated operational and analytics workloads, improved governed data access with Unity Catalog...
• Omnigent introduces contextual policies for AI agents: Policies that can track what an agent session has done so far to evaluate whether the next action should proceed. • Omnigent, as a meta-harness, allows these policies to be applied across any agent it wraps, including coding agents like Cl...
* Barracuda Managed XDR now uses Genie to let analysts search security logs in natural language instead of SQL, providing multi-tenant threat detection for thousands of customers and MSPs. * Investigations that previously required schema expertise across dozens of vendor formats can now be compl...
