Databricks

Why ERP Leaders Need to Understand Data Lakehouses Before Scaling AI Agents

Data lakehouses are emerging as the essential infrastructure layer for enterprise AI — providing ERP leaders with a governed, cross-system data foundation where AI agents can operate safely, semantically, and at scale. This analysis explains what a data lakehouse is, why it matters for agentic AI, and what ERP leaders must address before scaling autonomous AI across critical business workflows.

Data and Data Management

‘AI Is a Business Challenge, Not an IT One; Data Is the IT Problem,’ Q&A with Armstrong World Industries

Armstrong World Industries is proactively developing a strong data foundation to effectively scale AI across the enterprise, driven by the complexity of their data environment due to mergers and acquisitions, emphasizing that AI is a business challenge requiring strategic integration rather than merely an IT fix.

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Analytics and AI

Databricks’ $134B Valuation Puts the Enterprise AI Data War in Focus

Databricks is signaling a pivotal shift in enterprise AI spending towards essential data platforms for effective model utilization, highlighted by its recent $7 billion funding round and competition with Snowflake to manage data for analytics and agentic AI.

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Analytics and AI

CData, Databricks, and the Expanding MCP Ecosystem

CData has been named a Featured Launch Partner for the Model Context Protocol in the Databricks Marketplace. The launch makes CData Connect AI available inside Databricks, positioning it as infrastructure for building AI agents that need governed access to live enterprise systems.

Analytics and AI

AWS: Familiar AI Skills story with SAP Databricks twist

At the AWS London Summit, AWS announced a program to upskill 100,000 individuals in AI over five years, while also launching SAP Databricks on its platform, which enhances data accessibility and AI capabilities for SAP users, marking a significant step towards integrating advanced analytics and AI in enterprise resource planning.

Databricks lays down pattern for deeper AI, buys MosaicML

Databricks has acquired MosaicML to enhance its generative AI capabilities, enabling customers to securely build and deploy custom large language models using their own data on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform.

EY presses pause on split as partner disagreement ensues

The EY split has been placed on pause by the firm, as EY US auditors campaign for a larger slice of the tax practice post-divide.

The big clean up: welcome to data clean rooms

Data clean rooms are allowing multiple parties to combine and analyze their data in a protected environment.

EY to solve AI challenges with Databricks

EY has entered into an alliance with Databricks, a data lakehouse company, to help organizations simplify and democratize data, analytics, and AI.

Databricks unveils evolution of its data lakehouse platform

Databricks has enhanced its Lakehouse Platform at the Data + AI Summit, introducing features like improved data warehousing, a new analytics marketplace for data sharing, secure data collaboration through data cleanrooms, and automatic cost optimization for ETL operations, aimed at facilitating business intelligence, AI, and ML on a unified platform.

Cloud healthcare and the data state of play

Big Tech is muscling in on health big time: look no further than recent acquisitions such as the Microsoft-Nuance and Oracle-Cerner mega-deals.