How Indra unified EV charging data on Databricks
Summary
Indra consolidated EV charging, fleet, and operational data onto Databricks, replacing a sprawl of Azure tools, duplicated pipelines, and brittle manual reporting with a single governed platform. The move cut costs, sped up queries, enabled self-service dashboards, and set up the infrastructure needed for streaming and AI use cases. Client.listTools() called but server does not advertise tools capability - returning empty list
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