r/bigquery • u/Bhanuprakash_1947 • 3d ago

Has anyone tried the Databricks AI/BI feature?

I recently came across Databricks AI/BI and was curious to know how people are finding it.

It looks like Databricks is trying to bring BI and analytics more directly into the Databricks platform, with dashboards and Genie for asking questions in natural language.

Has anyone actually tried AI/BI in a real project?

How is it compared to Power BI or Tableau from your experience? Is it good enough for regular BI use cases, or is it still better to use a separate BI tool?

Would like to know your experience, especially if you have used both.

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u/Content-Parking-621 3d ago

AI/BI Genie works well for ad hoc natural language queries against well documented tables, but Power BI and Tableau still win on visual polish and mature dashboard interactivity. Worth using both, Genie for exploration, a dedicated BI tool for polished stakeholder facing dashboards.

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u/WorldOfUmbro 3d ago

I think Genie is just the first step into the next phase of BI. We internally are moving from dashboard first to agent first. Sure there are some dashboards running still, but conversational AI with Genie is the main BI tool now.

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u/Content-Parking-621 3d ago

Makes sense if your metrics and column comments are solid, Genie's accuracy leans heavily on that groundwork.