Databricks AI/BI is an AI-powered enterprise intelligence resolution native to the Databricks Platform that permits pure language queries and AI-generated insights. AI/BI Dashboards provide a low-code expertise for analysts to create interactive visualizations shortly. Beforehand, sharing these dashboards with the proper individuals outdoors your Databricks account required extra steps from admins, creating limitations to collaboration.
Immediately, we’re excited to announce a brand new, simplified technique to onboard customers and share AI/BI Dashboards together with your total group on Azure Databricks. Automated Id Administration, now in Gated Public Preview for Microsoft Entra ID, permits instantaneous, safe id provisioning and dashboard sharing with any Entra ID consumer, group, or service principal. This characteristic delivers two key, time-saving advantages for Databricks admins and AI/BI Dashboard customers:
- Seamless onboarding: Databricks Workspace Admins can now onboard customers inside Databricks with Entra ID identities instantly out there for including to your workspace.
- Frictionless sharing: Dashboard house owners can now simply share AI/BI dashboards with anybody, together with non-Databricks customers, who’re registered in Entra ID, for seamless collaboration. Anybody can merely log in with their Entra ID SSO—no further setup required. Dashboard shoppers are auto-provisioned as account customers and may solely view the shared dashboard.
No Handbook Consumer Setup Wanted—Immediately add customers to your workspace!
With Automated Id Administration, managing entry is now less complicated and sooner. There is no must arrange an Entra Enterprise Functions or contain your Databricks account admin to import the proper teams. Leveraging the ability of the Microsoft Entra ID Graph API, Workspace Admins can shortly add customers, teams, and repair principals (SPs) from Entra ID instantly by means of the Databricks workspace UI.
This enhancement simplifies workspace administration by enabling straightforward searches for customers, teams, and SPs whereas absolutely supporting nested group hierarchies and teams containing SPs. Gone are the constraints of syncing nested teams and SPs with the SCIM connector or customized scripts. This streamlined method empowers you to handle entry effectively so you possibly can give attention to insights as a substitute of provisioning.
With no extra Entra or SCIM configuration wanted, customers can register seamlessly to entry an AI/BI dashboard shared with them. When a dashboard is shared, the recipient logs in with their typical SSO credentials from Entra ID. They’re robotically provisioned and given entry to the proper teams for dashboard and workspace entry primarily based on their Entra ID group membership.
Effortlessly share AI/BI Dashboards with anybody in your group
Beforehand in Azure Databricks in the event you had been to share an AI/BI Dashboard, you might solely share it to your total group or to co-workers who already had entry to Databricks. This required your admin so as to add your crew earlier than you might collaborate with them in Databricks. Now you possibly can say goodbye to IT entry requests and revel in frictionless sharing with any co-worker or group you’d see in Entra ID (for instance “Finance-Crew”). With Automated Id Administration, AI/BI Dashboards will be shared throughout your group—even with groups outdoors the Databricks workspace, like enterprise customers who aren’t Databricks members.
Be a part of the Gated Public Preview
Use this manner to enroll in the Gated Public Preview of Automated Id Administration for Microsoft Entra ID. You should be an Azure Databricks buyer and AI/BI dashboard consumer to take part.
For those who haven’t tried out AI/BI Dashboards but, you’re lacking out! To be taught extra, we invite you to discover our newest product documentation, go to our webpage, and watch the demos.
