Announcing General Availability (GA) of the Power BI connector for Databricks
We are excited to announce General Availability (GA) of the Microsoft Power BI connector for Databricks for Power BI Service and Power BI Desktop 2.85.681.0. Following the public preview, we have already seen strong customer adoption, so we are pleased to extend these capabilities to our entire customer base. The native Power BI connector for...
Solution Accelerator: Telco Customer Churn Predictor
Skip directly to the notebooks referenced throughout this post. When T-Mobile embraced the un-carrier label, they didn’t just kick off a marketing campaign; they fundamentally changed the dynamics in the US market for telecom. Previously, telecom had been a staid, utility-like industry with steady growth and subscribers locked into two-year contracts to cover a “free”...
Growth-Hacking Impact: Why I’m Joining Databricks
When I look at every wave of computing — be it the advent of mobile or the Internet — there’s a core theme of their underpinnings. The power behind the most impactful technologies, though often invisible, has been robust developer platforms. These platforms spur innovation, creativity and collaboration at a truly global scale and speed...
The Hidden Value of Hadoop Migration
For years Hadoop was the default technology for big data analytics. But over time, it has fallen behind as new technologies have been introduced to provide better analytics solutions. Many organizations are looking at their Hadoop costs and trying to justify migrating to a modern cloud-based analytics platform. Databricks just released the whitepaper, “The Hidden...
Announcing the Launch of Databricks on Google Cloud
Today, we are proud to announce the availability of Databricks on Google Cloud. This jointly developed service provides a simple, open lakehouse platform for data engineering, data science, analytics, and machine learning. It brings together the Databricks capabilities customers love with the data analytics solutions and global scale available from Google Cloud. Open data platform...
Paths Crossed Again
If you are interested in working on cutting edge technical problems such as managing millions of VMs every day with top-caliber engineers like Trustin, visit our Careers page to explore open software engineer positions and other global opportunities. A Korean proverb many Koreans like myself often forget is: 옷깃만 스쳐도 인연. Merely brushing by someone...
Powering a Better Future With ESG Data and Analytics
By now, most professionals know that the future of business goes hand in hand with social responsibility, environmental stewardship and corporate ethics. It should come as no surprise, then, that Sustainability and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) have become top priorities for consumers, investors and regulators alike. But creating a better future for all stakeholders...
Azure Databricks Achieves DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) on Microsoft Azure Government
We are excited to announce that Azure Databricks has received a Provisional Authorization (PA) by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) at Impact Level 5 (IL5), as published in the Department of Defense Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (DoD CC SRG). The authorization closely follows our FedRAMP High authorization and further validates Azure Databricks security...
Amplify Insights into Your Industry With Geospatial Analytics
Data science is becoming commonplace and most companies are leveraging analytics and business intelligence to help make data-driven business decisions. But are you supercharging your analytics and decision-making with geospatial data? Location intelligence, and specifically geospatial analytics, can help uncover important regional trends and behavior that impact your business. This goes beyond looking at location...
Accelerating ML Experimentation in MLflow
This fall, I interned with the ML team, which is responsible for building the tools and services that make it easy to do machine learning on Databricks. During my internship, I implemented several ease-of-use features in MLflow, an open-source machine learning lifecycle management project, and made enhancements to the Reproduce Run capability on the Databricks...
