Integrating Databricks AI Agents with Microsoft 365 for Governed Data Intelligence

Introducing Databricks Agents and Agent 365

• 💡 Databricks Genie, an AI agent, integrates with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Agent 365 to enable agents to compose and solve real-world problems.
• 🚀 This collaboration aims to unlock significant value for organizations by providing customers with desired data intelligence solutions.

Centralized Data Governance with Unity Catalog

• ✅ Unity Catalog serves as a central hub for governing Azure Databricks data, including models and unstructured data.
• 🔗 It seamlessly integrates with OneLake and can store SAP ERP data, making diverse data sources centrally accessible and governed.

Databricks Genie: Querying Structured Data

• 🧠 Genie allows users to ask natural language questions in English from structured data residing in Unity Catalog, OneLake, or SAP.
• 🛠️ It constructs SQL queries automatically, provides answers without hallucination, and allows subject matter experts to review and edit queries for accuracy.
• 📈 Genie leverages generative AI to describe information and can be made smarter by adding user instructions.

Handling Unstructured Data with Databricks Agents

• 🔍 A Databricks Agent acts as a knowledge assistant, running on OneLake to interrogate unstructured data like CFO notes and financial documents.
• 🎯 It provides traceable answers, showing the exact source of information from PDFs, and can be tuned with instructions to improve over time.

Multi-Agent Orchestration and Microsoft Integration

• 🧩 A multi-agent supervisor combines capabilities from structured data agents, unstructured data agents, and web search for comprehensive information retrieval.
• ✅ This system is integrated into Copilot Studio and Microsoft Teams, allowing users to interact with agents directly while ensuring governance and correctness.
• 🚀 Future plans include deploying these agents within Agent 365 as "digital co-workers" in Office, routing questions to the most appropriate agent.