Databricks Overview
Databricks, with its Lakehouse Platform, focuses on data consolidation, reliability, strong governance, and performance. Databricks uses a modern data stack by eliminating the data silos that traditionally separate and complicate data engineering, analytics, BI, data science, and machine learning. It’s built on open source and open standards to maximize flexibility. And, its common approach to data management, security, and governance helps you operate more efficiently and innovate faster. Databricks boasts a stellar list of customers such as AT&T, Shell, SEGA, Rolls-Royce, and many others.
AI and Copilots
SAP partners with Databricks to launch the Business Data Cloud, aiming to unify data for enhanced AI-driven business insights.
AI and Copilots
The AI Ecosystem Pioneers as well as emerging startups haven't slowed the pace of innovation, as the AI market continued its forward march over the past month.
AI and Copilots
With its new chatbot, Databricks lets customers tap natural language to query data, generate code, and more, while ensuring contextually accurate data.
AI and Copilots
Gain CISO insight into Databricks' AI security framework with an expert review that includes crucial strategies for safeguarding AI models without impeding business innovation.
AI and Copilots
The report is a compilation of the innovations, funding, and products highlighted in AI Ecosystem Reports from the first quarter of 2024.
AI and Copilots
With LLMs bringing new prospects for innovation, Databricks launches its open, general-purpose model, DBRX.
AI/AI Index Weekly Report
AI Ecosystem Ep 33: Fluent provides AI data analytics; Databricks acquires Lilac for improved data pipelines; and Cohere partners with Accenture for enterprise AI adoption.
AI and Copilots
The top 5 generative AI products to watch feature platforms to build GenAI and machine learning apps, produce content, govern AI, and accelerate automation initiatives.
Acceleration Economy Minute
New tools make it easier to create Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) apps which are notoriously difficult to develop because they require collecting data from diverse sources.
AI and Copilots
Databricks recently acquired MosaicML for $1.3 billion, and the combined firms are poised to develop robust machine learning and generative AI capabilities for enterprises.
AI and Copilots
AI Index Report episode 3: IBM releases watsonx.ai platform for enterprises; Databricks acquires MosaicML for $1.3 billion; and Amazon announces Amazon CodeWhisperer copilot.
Acceleration Economy Minute
Databricks names Dataiku and Qlik 2023 Global Partner Award winners, demonstrating the importance of the partners ecosystem in helping companies develop new products and services.
Cloud Wars Minute
Databricks hosted Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at its customer event, and the two companies explained how they're working on trustworthy AI and serving joint customers.
Acceleration Economy Minute
Databricks announces Lakehouse Apps, enabling developers to build and distribute native applications on its Marketplace, providing easy integrations, extended services, and flexibility for developers.
Hyperautomation Minute
Review top takeaways from the 2023 State of Data and AI report recently released by Databricks.
Acceleration Economy Minute
Databricks Ventures made a strategic investment in Catalyst, its first foray into customer success and growth technology.
Data
With its acquisition of data and policy governance leader Okera, Databricks validates its focus on leveraging AI tech for data management and governance.
Acceleration Economy Minute
Databricks recently launched the preview mode of its Databricks Marketplace, where consumers and providers can find, share, and utilize data and ML models.
Hyperautomation Minute
Synthetic data can be incredibly valuable with AI and machine learning but it must be used only when it's necessary and with caution.
Acceleration Economy Minute
Databricks has rolled out its own AI model intended as a simpler alternative to ChatGPT, with an aim to help customers build chatbots.
Data
Users are straying from the notions of data lakes and data warehouses, moving closer to data lakehouses, explains Wayne Sadin in this moment.
Data
Excel spreadsheets have limitations leading to data quality and integrity issues and should be replaced by modern cloud tools, asserts Wayne Sadin.
Acceleration Economy Minute
Kieron Allen reviews a Databricks Lakehouse platform extension that lets developers build apps leveraging Databricks and Visual Studio functionality.
Hyperautomation Minute
In this Enterprise AI Minute, Aaron reviews data + AI solutions by Databricks and how it integrates a co-innovation model.
News
In this Acceleration Economy News Desk special, Aaron Back discusses Databricks' recent acquisition of startup company, 8080 Labs.
