Databricks AI/BI is an AI-powered enterprise intelligence answer 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 suitable individuals exterior your Databricks account required extra steps from admins, creating obstacles to collaboration.
In the present day, we’re excited to announce a brand new, simplified method to onboard customers and share AI/BI Dashboards along with your complete group on Azure Databricks. Automated Id Administration, now in Gated Public Preview for Microsoft Entra ID, permits immediate, safe identification provisioning and dashboard sharing with any Entra ID person, 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 additional setup required. Dashboard customers are auto-provisioned as account customers and might solely view the shared dashboard.
No Handbook Person Setup Wanted—Immediately add customers to your workspace!
With Automated Id Administration, managing entry is now easier and sooner. There is no must arrange an Entra Enterprise Purposes or contain your Databricks account admin to import the suitable 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 via the Databricks workspace UI.
This enhancement simplifies workspace administration by enabling straightforward searches for customers, teams, and SPs whereas totally supporting nested group hierarchies and teams containing SPs. Gone are the restrictions of syncing nested teams and SPs with the SCIM connector or customized scripts. This streamlined strategy empowers you to handle entry effectively so you may concentrate on insights as an alternative 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 normal SSO credentials from Entra ID. They’re robotically provisioned and given entry to the suitable 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 when you had been to share an AI/BI Dashboard, you might solely share it to your complete group or to co-workers who already had entry to Databricks. This required your admin so as to add your staff earlier than you might collaborate with them in Databricks. Now you may 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-Group”). With Automated Id Administration, AI/BI Dashboards might be shared throughout your group—even with groups exterior the Databricks workspace, like enterprise customers who aren’t Databricks members.
Be a part of the Gated Public Preview
Use this way to join the Gated Public Preview of Automated Id Administration for Microsoft Entra ID. You should be an Azure Databricks buyer and AI/BI dashboard person to take part.
In case you haven’t tried out AI/BI Dashboards but, you’re lacking out! To study extra, we invite you to discover our newest product documentation, go to our webpage, and watch the demos.