Great question! While Databricks doesn't publish a single "business benefits catalog template" as a downloadable artifact, there are several publicly available resources that can help you build one tailored to your modernization program:
1. Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) Study
Databricks commissioned a Forrester study that provides a structured framework for quantifying business value, including productivity gains, infrastructure savings, and revenue acceleration. It found customers averaged $29M in benefits and 417% ROI over three years. This is an excellent reference for structuring your own benefits catalog.
Forrester TEI Executive Spotlight
2. Unity Catalog: Data Governance & Cataloging
If the "catalog" need is about data governance and organizing data assets, Unity Catalog is Databricks' built-in solution. The public docs include best practices for setting up catalog hierarchies, governance models, and access controls.
Unity Catalog Best Practices
Data Governance with Databricks
Unity Catalog Product Page
3. Databricks AI Governance Framework
For a broader governance and value framework that covers data + AI lifecycle, Databricks published an AI Governance Framework with best practices for compliance, ethical standards, and business value tracking.
Introducing the Databricks AI Governance Framework (Blog)
4. Solution Accelerators
These are publicly available, fully functional notebooks and best practices organized by use case (e.g., churn prediction, fraud detection, demand forecasting). They can serve as the foundation for a use-case catalog with associated business benefits.
Databricks Solution Accelerators
Databricks Marketplace (for additional notebooks, datasets, and models)
5. Data Strategy Blog Series
Databricks' data strategy blog covers how to align data platform investments with business value useful for framing a benefits narrative.
Data Strategy: Why It Matters and How to Build One
