From Data to Dialogue: How S&P Global Energy Made Its Structured Data Estate Conversational with Databricks Genie Agents and MCP
Summary
S&P Global Energy made its structured data estate conversational by composing Databricks Genie Agents as managed MCP servers through a FastMCP proxy for cross-domain queries. This approach enables domain experts to curate code-free semantic layers, accelerating time-to-market for conversational data products while preserving Unity Catalog governance.
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