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IntroductionOver the past year, I've had quite a few conversations with teams exploring Databricks Genie Spaces. The pattern is usually the same. Someone sees a demo, watches a business user ask a question in plain English, and within seconds Genie r...
Problem / opportunityLending teams wait days for analysts to answer routine portfolio questions. The data is already modeled — the bottleneck is access. This app puts a conversational agent on a governed lending gold layer so answers come back in sec...
Problem / opportunityLending teams wait days for analysts to answer routine portfolio questions. The data is already modeled — the bottleneck is access. This app puts a conversational agent on a governed lending gold layer so answers come back in sec...
Databricks is highlighting how a leading Canadian transportation and logistics company used Genie Code, Unity Catalog, custom Agent Skills, and Databricks Apps to modernize legacy data pipelines at scale. The approach automated more than 90% of new t...
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Want to turn plain-language questions into governed, secure answers from your data? Databricks AI/BI Genie is the conversational analytics layer that lets business users ask questions a...
Hi Everyone,Now that Genie ontology is in preview, has anyone done benchmark like with & without genie ontology ?If yes, share your experience .If no, please suggest an idea for doing the benchmark.
Sharing my new dashboard for tracking Genie usage and costs, suggestions for improvements and features are welcome.The current version displays and aggregates Genie LLM costs, free & billable DBU consumptions, and code interactions per user on a dail...
Nice work. I like that you're tracking both LLM costs and DBU usage rather than looking at just one side of the equation.A breakdown by Genie space or use case would be really interesting too — especially for figuring out which use cases are actually...
Hi Genie Hub team,I’ve been building an enterprise application around Genie and ran into an interesting integration problem that I’d love to get the community’s perspective on.In our setup, the application can connect to different Databricks environm...
Dear All,As the number of Genie Agents grows, maintaining consistent instructions across multiple Genie Spaces becomes increasingly cumbersome. Updating the same instructions manually in each space requires significant effort and is both time-consumi...
Databricks Genie ZeroOps is one of the most interesting announcements from Data + AI Summit 2026. It is essentially an AI-powered autonomous DataOps agent built directly into the Databricks platform that continuously monitors your data and AI workloa...
Hello Community,I’m starting this discussion to gather perspectives and best practices for managing Unity Catalog (UC) permissions across all securables, particularly from a platform governance, automation, and operational scalability standpoint.I ha...
We run Terraform as the system of record for Unity Catalog grants, with asset bundles handling a separate layer, and the split of responsibilities turned out to matter more than the tool choice.The first lesson cost us real debugging time. databricks...
After some initial testing on small models which were quite impressive, I decided to put the new Genie skill to the full test with a more advanced model in Power BI. Be aware that the /ImportBI feature is in Beta. This means that there are ongoing ch...
With Genie Code, you can now add a Tableau or Power BI file and have it build an AI/BI dashboard that replicates your existing visualizations - while connecting them to metric views that mirror the underlying business logic.Import BI files using Geni...
How does databricks handle calculated fields etc In TWB files they are referenced as calculation_1234.... does databricks store these references at the data model level to resolve them when I upload a TWB file
This is part 2 of 3 in a series where I take you through working with Metric Views.Part 1: Introduction to Metric ViewsPart 2: Metric Views in AI/BI Dashboards & GeniePart 3: Metric Views with Power BI and Tabular EditorIntroductionIn Part 1, we defi...
Most organizations don’t have a data problem anymore.They have a data access and usability problem.The dashboards exist. The warehouses are modernized. The lakehouse is running. Yet business teams still wait days for answers because analytics remains...