Databricks' Genie app for Slack is now generally available, letting staff ask data questions, get charts and approve actions in other tools from a chat.
Technology
At 12,000 employees, AI Ghodsi is the first to admit that he can't know everyone and that they are unlikely to confess the things that go wrong to him. But he doesn't need them to. He uses Databricks' newly revised Genie agent for that.
Databricks will bring Genie, Lakeflow, Unity Gateway and Lakebase to SAP Databricks, as SAP adds a new way to reach data stored in its business software.
World News
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