Databricks news

Databricks and SAP expand their partnership at SAP TechEd

Databricks and SAP announced the next phase of their partnership at SAP TechEd. SAP Application Data Foundation gives SAP Databricks, part of SAP Business Data Cloud, easier access to SAP application data without custom extraction pipelines. Databricks plans to bring Genie, Lakeflow, Unity Gateway and Lakebase to SAP Databricks, without release dates. SAF-Holland reports analyses that run 5x faster.

Procore uses Databricks OpenSharing for its customer analytics

Procore uses Databricks OpenSharing to distribute hundreds of curated tables to its customers in Procore Analytics 2.0, with access set per customer. Customers can now refresh data hourly, where the earlier version allowed once a day and at most three paid refreshes. Procore says it built the larger catalog in less than half the time. Data can go to Power BI, Tableau, Snowflake, BigQuery or Databricks.

Databricks to open an office in Abu Dhabi

Databricks will open an office in Abu Dhabi early in 2027 and move its team of more than 50 people for the Middle East and Africa there from Europe. It plans to more than double that team within a year. The company already has hundreds of customers in the region and sees strong growth in Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

Databricks launches Agent Memory in Beta

With Agent Memory, AI agents built on Agent Bricks remember facts, preferences and workflows between sessions. Conversations are logged automatically, and a background process keeps the useful facts, removes duplicates and replaces outdated information. It runs on Lakebase and is available in Beta; in a Databricks example a follow-up question went from almost six minutes to 41 seconds.

Factory partners with Databricks for autonomous software development

Factory and Databricks are working together so that software Factory builds or migrates can use data and models from the Databricks platform directly. Factory's agents trace dependencies through Unity Catalog and use Databricks APIs to run jobs, queries and app deployments. The focus is on development automation, data platform migrations and security fixes, and qualifying customers can buy Factory through Databricks Marketplace.

Fox Corporation chooses Databricks as its main data and AI platform

Fox Corporation has chosen Databricks as its main platform for data, AI applications and agents in a multi-year partnership. FOX Sports runs an AI agent on Lakebase that gives fans predictions and live statistics, and FOX One uses Databricks for content recommendations in under 200 milliseconds. Internal teams use Genie Code to build pipelines and dashboards faster.

Decagon partners with Databricks on data, models and Marketplace

Decagon connects its customer service AI agents to the Databricks platform. Through zero-copy sharing governed by Unity Catalog, agents read customer data such as orders and payments without extra pipelines, and conversation insights flow back into Databricks. Databricks also serves models for Decagon via Unity Gateway, and Decagon can be bought through Databricks Marketplace.

Databricks acquires Row Zero to bring spreadsheets to Genie

Databricks has acquired Row Zero, a spreadsheet built for people and AI agents to work with data together. The technology becomes part of Genie, so business teams can analyse live data in a familiar spreadsheet while permissions, auditing and export rules stay in place. Row Zero handles billions of rows and will be available to all Databricks customers on every major cloud.

Databricks invests US$350 million in Singapore

Databricks will invest more than US$350 million in Singapore over the next three years. A new regional headquarters quadruples its office space there, and the local team grows from about 250 to more than 500 people. The investment supports Lakebase, Genie and Unity Gateway, and Singtel, Singapore Customs and iFAST are among the new customers in the region.

Databricks raises $5 billion and passes $7 billion run-rate