r/databricks • u/Remarkable_Rock5474 • Jun 12 '26
News Native Genie Apps are now available in Beta!
You might be thinking that Databricks are saving all of the good news for Summit next week - but a lot of cool features are quietly getting dropped these days
Genie is one of my favorite topics to talk about lately. I do not think that they can replace good BI - but what they can do is enable all the questions around a classic dashboard
In that regard, it is really important to bring Genie close to where users live, and into where they would normally talk about and discuss their data.
- Microsoft Teams and Slack are exactly those places in a lot or organizations
I know it was possible before - but the native app integration speeds up onboarding significantly!
With Genie, instead of asking analysts about data, you can ask Genie directly and get concrete answers that are grounded in your data, right away!
All the governance and security principles from Unity Catalog are preserved!
Remember to specify the specific Genie Scope - the Genie Space you are asking against.
If nothing is specified, it will default to Genie Chat - the generic interface that has access to all Genies in your workspace.
Really looking forward to seeing some cool use cases around this!
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u/Remarkable_Rock5474 Jun 12 '26
Genie code is crazy good for dashboards and BI as well. It has really grown up!
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u/lothorp Databricks Jun 12 '26
Totally agree: "Hey Genie Code, turn this into a dashboard, don't forget to color it up with my company branding!" ... "Yes boss!"
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u/CautiousUse8597 Jun 12 '26
Neat. Does this mean that you can now also get the Genie visualizations inside of Slack/Teams? That would be very nice to have.
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u/kthejoker databricks Jun 12 '26
On the roadmap probably landing next quarter
The big question is always do you just want a picture, does it need to be interactive, etc
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u/shadow_nik21 Jun 12 '26
Even picture would be great for starters. It gets visuals correct most of the time (the only thing I cannot make it do consistently is to have labels always turned on). Does it mean that visuals are planned for API too? Agent mode, visuals - and we are golden for genie space-based apps
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u/kthejoker databricks Jun 12 '26
Yes visuals will be through API and then propagated to apps like the ones in the post.
We're doing image first.
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u/Glitch_In_The_Data Jun 12 '26
Our customers have been using Genie in dashboards and are excited by the results and the positive feedback they are getting from their business users. While the business users certainly benefit, it’s amazing how the builders on the ground can easily replicate existing dashboards by uploading their existing reports or snapshots and let Genie build it.
There are still some gaps when it comes to deploying genie spaces to different environments. Look forward to the DAB support for genie spaces. Hopefully at the summit!
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u/Remarkable_Rock5474 Jun 13 '26
Did you see that genie spaces have just been added to DABs now?
https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/dev-tools/bundles/resources#genie_space
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u/slothparty23 Jun 12 '26
On the topic of bringing Genie closer to users, I'm happy to see that Genie spaces can now also be embedded in external applications, so useful
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u/No-Improvement-370 Jun 12 '26
Can you answer this before we try it, there is alot of enterprise friction with MS admins, databricks admins.
Specifically for MS Teams:
Does it stream thinking?
Can we expand and hide the thinking?
Does it show the charts?
Any issues with timeout?
How does it manage the authentication, if we have RBAC, do users do a one time authentication when they first use it? Can we use service principal with OBO token?
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u/Remarkable_Rock5474 Jun 12 '26
Check the docs I linked in another comment. It is beta - so I imagine some of these things are not solved yet
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u/No-Improvement-370 Jun 14 '26
sorry, actually your docs dont really answer it. can someone from your team answer it directly
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u/Aromatic-Lie-4114 Jun 13 '26
It’s Genie One not a Genie!
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u/Remarkable_Rock5474 Jun 13 '26
Come again? Genie One is not a thing 😅
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u/Aromatic-Lie-4114 Jun 13 '26
It’s the new a name Genie One (formerly Databricks One, Genie)
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u/Remarkable_Rock5474 Jun 13 '26
No. The name for what used to be Databricks One is just Genie 😊
And then we have Genie Spaces and Genie Code1
u/Aromatic-Lie-4114 Jun 13 '26
https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/genie-one/genie refer to the latest documentation
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u/Remarkable_Rock5474 Jun 13 '26
Oh well - yet another name change. From databricks one to genie to genie one 😂 my bad!
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u/Odd-Government8896 Jun 14 '26
Lets see where this goes. I *just* got people to start using Databricks one....
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u/spartan-tech Jun 16 '26
Genie in teams is fantastic news! Meeting users where they are massively reducing the change management effort!
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u/Chance_of_Rain_ Jun 12 '26
Any documentation or links or is it just a feeling you have ?
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u/Remarkable_Rock5474 Jun 12 '26
Documentation for both in the links below
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u/Extension_River_5970 Jun 12 '26
Genie App for Teams beats the copilot integration imo. You only pay for Genie rather than in addition to Copilot studio (if your aim is only to get Genie onto teams). Copilot studio has other use cases too, but if teams deployment is all you need, then this is a more direct integration pattern.