Unifying Data and Governance in the Agentic Era: What’s New with Azure Databricks
Summary
Azure Databricks now offers new capabilities for unifying data and governance in the agentic era, including the industry's first true LTAP architecture, serverless Postgres database branching, and millisecond-level response times via Lakehouse//RT. These updates also bring Genie for Microsoft Teams and M365 Copilot, the new Azure Databricks Excel Add-in, and Azure Databricks CustomerLake, a lakehouse-embedded Agentic CDP.
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