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Many manufacturers want a safer, faster way to understand how their production lines behave without risking real equipment or downtime. Digital twins make this possible by creating a virtual version of your assets and processes, powered by real senso...
"We had outgrown our legacy systems, but with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform—especially Lakebase and Databricks Apps—we've built a revenue management app that's faster, simpler, and far more reliable."- Dennis Michon, Head of Data Product,...
Databricks now supports OpenAI GPT‑5.5 and Codex natively, so teams can use OpenAI’s latest frontier model for coding, agents, and document intelligence fully governed by Unity AI Gateway across AWS, Azure, and GCP
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GPT‑5.5 on Databrick...
The Weekly Digest • April 13 – 19
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Databricks has launched the Public Preview of Lakeflow Designer, a visual, no‑code, AI‑native way for analysts and business users to prepare and analyze data directly on Databricks without leaving the governed environment of Unity Catalog.
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Databricks Academy offers the free DevOps Essentials for Data Engineering course, designed to help data engineers apply software engineering best practices and DevOps principles on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Instead of going deep into...
"Zerobus Ingest allows us to detect overheating factory conditions in minutes rather than hours, directly supporting our carbon-neutrality strategy and operational efficiency." – Kento Izumi, General Manager, Digital Transformation Promotion Division...
We’re introducing Agent mode in Genie Spaces, a new way to let Genie investigate your data more like a real analyst. Instead of just answering a single query, Genie now plans, tests ideas, and reasons across multiple queries to help explain what’s ha...
Customers today expect brands to recognize what they care about, whether they’re reacting to a campaign or actively browsing online. With Databricks Solution Accelerators for propensity scoring on sales data and real‑time clickstream propensity in ec...
We’re announcing Document Intelligence, designed to tackle the biggest weak spot in today’s agents: reading real enterprise documents. It turns messy PDFs like contracts, claims, invoices, financial filings, and clinical notes into reliable structure...
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Databricks Academy offers Build Data Pipelines with Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines, a course on the core concepts of Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, taught with a simple, SQL-based approach (wi...
Serverless compute now powers Notebooks, Lakeflow Jobs, and Spark Declarative Pipelines (SDP) on Databricks, taking care of infrastructure so data teams can focus on building and running workloads instead of managing clusters.
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No clust...
“Now, we have a clear direction and technology to support it. With open source data lakehouse, we can centralize all of our global data in one place. Adding in the benefits of a serverless infrastructure, we can now perform various AI analytics at sc...
The Weekly Digest • April 06 – 12
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@Sumit_7
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Kudos to all the contributors, bricksters and each and everyone of the members who contributed in any possible to help the community grow. Thanks for the mention/share @Advika.Quote = `` Existence is Co-Existence ``