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“Data intelligence is important for making decisions with data – whether that’s about your business performance, your customer performance or your operational performance.” Susanna Moan, Currys plc Chief Data Officer, shares how the company uses data and AI across critical pillars of its strategy – from empowering colleagues to nurturing customers for life. Join us at #NRF2025 next month to explore more ways #dataintelligence is reshaping retail. https://dbricks.co/3VQXDlV

Strategies for investing in and deploying AI are evolving. Here's where we predict data and AI leaders will be focused in 2025: - Post-training and specialized AI agents - Data infrastructure - Aligning AI use cases to where there is a "data advantage" - Data and AI governance - Upskilling to boost AI adoption https://dbricks.co/3BGdkpe What did we miss? What are your priorities?

Introducing Git support for queries in the new SQL Editor! Users can now store and manage queries in version control, enabling seamless integration into their CI/CD pipelines. https://dbricks.co/4fth9fm

Databricks is proud to announce that Gartner® has again named us a Leader in the 2024 Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems. See why Gartner named Databricks a Leader and the criteria you should look for in Cloud DBMS. https://lnkd.in/gzAqW3Yw

Ready to expand your skill set for the new year? Upskill on SQL analytics and BI in this three-part training. You'll learn how to: - Navigate the Databricks workspace UI - Use Databricks SQL for exploratory data analysis - Leverage Delta Lake for data exploration and manipulation - Use Databricks AI/BI Dashboards to create analytical datasets, dashboards and visualizations Earn your certificate, and showcase your achievement on LinkedIn. https://dbricks.co/4fnEajE

Combining customer data and GenAI can result in powerful personalized content. See how retailers can use Databricks’ AI Playground, an interactive interface that simplifies the prompt engineering process, to produce reliable, high-quality personalized content for the holiday season ⛷️ https://dbricks.co/3DhuFVO Join us at #NRF2025 next month to learn more about how retailers can leverage the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform for impactful AI use cases.

Apache Spark’s new Python Data Source API simplifies data ingestion from custom sources. Now, data engineers can efficiently integrate a broader array of data sources and sinks into their Spark pipelines. "The fact that we can now build, test, and surface reusable Spark data sources across the org will help our teams move faster and have more confidence in their work." - Bryce Bartmann, Chief Digital Technology Advisor, Shell https://dbricks.co/3ZYofE1

Databricks Assistant has grown to hundreds of thousands of monthly users. In the last year, we've introduced many new features and improvements: - Assistant Autocomplete - Assistant Quick Fix - Enhanced security and privacy - Catalog Explorer integration - and more! 👀 Sneak peek at what’s coming: flexible code execution, Quick Fix improvements, and targeted edits for large cells. https://dbricks.co/4gnVPJr

Retail and Consumer Goods organizations are investing in data + AI more actively than any other industry. Join us at NRF to discover real-world applications and strategies powered by the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform! Chat with Databricks experts and dive into use cases ranging from supply chain optimization to customer experience. See what we have in store at #NRF2025: https://dbricks.co/3DbUVkt

With Databricks #MosaicAI, Block deployed multiple #GenAI use cases across their enterprise. Results include: - $10M additional productivity gains versus forecast - 32% increase in developer productivity - 26% faster GenAI app deliver Learn more: https://dbricks.co/4iA1ZYf