Databricks has previewed a no-code model of its Information Intelligence platform — Databricks One — that goals to offer AI and BI instruments to non-technical customers via a conversational person interface.
In accordance with analysts, Databricks One attracts inspiration from Microsoft’s M365 Copilot technique to reimagine the person interface of M365, centering on generative AI, and applies this method to the enterprise information analytics instruments that Databricks supplies.
“Databricks One mirrors Microsoft’s M365-Copilot technique in that it reimagines the person interface, though not for productiveness apps, however for enterprise information and AI,” mentioned Michael Ni, principal analyst at Constellation Analysis.
Chatting with Computerworld, final month, a prime Microsoft govt mentioned that the corporate was planning to maneuver away from a typical apps primarily based interface to a Copilot pushed expertise sooner or later: as an alternative of accessing particular person apps like Phrase, Excel and PowerPoint, customers prompts Copilot with the duty at hand and the generative AI assistant spins up the required utility.
Databricks One equally gives a simplified, AI-assisted entry level to ruled information, metrics, and insights, serving to enterprise groups interact with out code or complexity.
“It’s not about changing enterprise intelligence (BI) instruments, however about embedding resolution intelligence into day by day workflows,” Ni mentioned.
One comes with AI/BI Dashboards and apps
As a part of the One platform, which is presently in personal preview and could be accessed by Information Intelligence platform subscribers without spending a dime, Databricks is providing AI/BI Dashboards, Genie, and Databricks Apps together with built-in governance and safety features by way of Unity Catalog and the Databricks IAM platform.
Whereas AI/BI Dashboards will allow non-technical enterprise customers to create and entry information visualizations and carry out superior analytics with out writing code, Genie, a conversational assistant, will enable customers to ask questions on their information utilizing pure language.
