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Explore Databricks Self-Guided Tours

Databricks and Carahsoft have partnered to provide a series of self-guided tours for Databricks's enterprise-ready Artificial Intelligence solutions. Similar to a live demonstration, these in-depth walkthroughs explore Databricks's wide array of use cases that can help meet you and your organization’s unique IT needs.

 

Learn about Databricks’s Artificial Intelligence solutions by starting a self-guided tour below or schedule time with your dedicated Databricks representative for personalized insights.

 

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Databricks AI Self-Guided Tour

Built on open source, Databricks is the first unified platform to harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) for public sector teams so they can deliver AI’s potential to every constituent. Databricks’ Data Intelligence Platform empowers teams to take a data-centric approach to building AI solutions. Databricks helps public sector organizations achieve their AI goals to improve constituent services. Leveraging a lakehouse-powered architecture and top-tier generative AI capabilities, agencies and educational institutions can merge diverse data sources, enabling real-time decision-making to enhance productivity, reduce costs and strengthen security.


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Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

The Databricks Data Intelligence Platform empowers your organization by seamlessly integrating data and AI capabilities. Utilizing a lakehouse foundation, it offers an open and unified platform for comprehensive data and governance solutions.

Benefits:

  • Intelligent: Databricks leverages generative AI and a lakehouse approach, creating a Data Intelligence Engine that comprehends your data's unique semantics. This enables the Databricks Platform to autonomously enhance performance and tailor infrastructure management to your business's distinct needs.
  • Simple: Databricks simplifies user experience with natural language. The Data Intelligence Engine understands your organization's language, making data search and application development faster through code assistance and error resolution.
  • Privacy: Databricks ensures robust governance and security for Data and AI applications, especially with generative AI. The end-to-end MLOps and AI development solution is grounded in a unified approach to governance and security. This enables pursuing various AI initiatives, including APIs like OpenAI and custom-built models, without compromising data privacy and IP control.
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Databricks SQL

Databricks SQL (DBSQL) is a serverless data warehouse on the Databricks Intelligence Platform. It allows running SQL and BI applications at scale with up to 12x better price/performance. Featuring a unified governance model, open formats, APIs, and compatibility with your preferred tools, it ensures flexibility with no lock-in.

Benefits:

  • Best Price/Performance: Lower costs, achieve the best price/performance, and eliminate the need to manage, configure, or scale cloud infrastructure with serverless solutions.
  • Built-in Governance: Create a single data copy using open standards and implement a unified governance layer across all data teams with standard SQL.
  • Rich Ecosystem: Utilize SQL and tools such as Fivetran, dbt, Power BI, or Tableau, in conjunction with Databricks, for seamless ingestion, transformation, and in-place querying of all your data.
  • Break Down Silos: Enable analysts to access the latest data quickly for real-time analytics, seamlessly transitioning from BI to ML effortlessly.
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Delta Lake

Delta Lake stands alone as the exclusive open-format storage layer capable of seamlessly and immediately translating across diverse open formats. It harmonizes all data varieties for transactional, analytical, and AI applications effortlessly, boasting compatibility with both streaming and batch operations. Setting new benchmarks in performance, Delta Lake serves as the cornerstone for an economical and exceptionally scalable lakehouse solution.

Benefits:

  • Lightning-fast performance
  • Open and vast ecosystem
  • AI-driven for best price/performance
  • Open and secure data sharing
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Databricks SQL

Databricks SQL is a serverless data warehouse built on lakehouse architecture. It lets you run all your BI and ETL workloads at scale with up to 12x better price/performance, a unified governance model, open formats and APIs, and your tools of choice. This mean no lock-in for your team. Easily ingest, transform and orchestrate data from anywhere.

Benefits:

  • Eliminate resource management with serverless compute
  • Modern analytics and BI with your tools of choice
  • Centrally store and govern all your data with standard SQL
  • Best in class AI-powered performance
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Unity Catalog

Databricks provides unified governance for data and AI. With Unity Catalog, organizations can seamlessly govern their structured and unstructured data, machine learning models, notebooks, dashboards and files on any cloud or platform. Data scientists, analysts and engineers can use Unity Catalog to securely discover, access and collaborate on trusted data and AI assets.

Benefits:

  • Unified visibility into data and AI
  • AI-powered monitoring and observability
  • Easily share data and AI assets across clouds
  • Simplify access management with a unified interface
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Real-Time Data Streaming

Enable your data teams to build streaming data workloads with the languages and tools they already know. Simplify development and operations by automating the production aspects associated with building and maintaining real-time data workloads. Databricks simplifies data streaming to deliver real-time analytics, machine learning and applications on one platform.

Benefits:

  • Build streaming pipelines and applications faster
  • Simplify operations with automated tooling
  • Unify governance for all your real-time data across clouds

Databricks’ Benefits Snapshot:

 

  • Increase operational efficiency to enhance services.
  • Reduce risk and improve productivity with access to real-time, streaming data.
  • Adopt a unified approach to data and analytics to boost efficiency and lower costs.