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This blog was collaboratively written with Databricks partner Avanade. A special thanks to Dael Williamson, Avanade CTO, for his contributions. Financial Institutions today are still struggling to keep up with the emerging risks and threats facing their business. Managing risk, especially within the banking sector, has increased in complexity over the past several years. First,...

In rapidly changing environments, Azure Databricks enables organizations to spot new trends, respond to unexpected challenges and predict new opportunities. Organizations are leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to derive insight and value from their data and to improve the accuracy of forecasts and predictions. Data teams are using Delta Lake to accelerate ETL...

The Databricks team has been working hard to recreate content and enhance the experience as we transition all our events to a virtual experience. And we’ve learned a thing or two about what you want to learn: integrating Databricks with AWS services. So we’re excited to present our Cloud Data Lake Dev Day Workshop in...

Azure Databricks enables organizations to migrate on-premises ETL pipelines to the cloud to dramatically accelerate performance and increase reliability. If you are using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) today, there are a number of ways to migrate and run your existing pipelines on Microsoft Azure. The challenges with on-premises ETL pipelines In speaking with customers,...

Introduction In part 1  of the series on Modern Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) Analytics on Azure,  we walked through the big data use case and the goals for modern IIoT analytics, shared a real-world repeatable architecture in use by organizations to deploy IIoT at scale and explored the benefits of Delta format for each...

This post and the three-part series about Industrial IoT analytics were jointly authored by Databricks and members of the Microsoft Cloud Solution Architecture team. We would like to thank Databricks Solutions Architect Samir Gupta and Microsoft Cloud Solution Architects Lana Koprivica and Hubert Dua for their contributions to this and the two forthcoming posts. The...

A recent survey by Bain & Company shows that more than 30% of industrial companies are concerned about Information Technology and Operations Technology (IT&OT) integration. Another recent report by McKinsey & Company states that 70% of companies are still in “Pilot Purgatory” mode with industrial analytics projects, such as the use of the industrial internet...

We are excited to announce that Azure Databricks is now in Microsoft’s Azure Government region, enabling new data and AI use cases for federal agencies, state and local governments, public universities, and government contractors to enable faster decisions, more accurate predictions, and unified and collaborative data analytics. More than a dozen federal agencies are building...

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is inherent in our company values at Databricks, but recent events and protests around the world have reminded us that there’s much more we can do to bring awareness to racial injustice and drive meaningful change. This year’s theme at Spark + AI Summit was “DATA TEAMS UNITE!” and...

Databricks has a great partner ecosystem of over 450 partners that are critical to building and delivering the best data and AI solutions in the world for our joint customers.  We are proud of this collaboration and know it’s the result of the mutual commitment and investment that spans on-going training, solution development, field programs...