The Executive Guide to Data Sharing
and Collaboration on Databricks
An open ecosystem approach can provide organizations
with a better way to share data and AI

To deliver on key business initiatives, data teams need an open, ﬂexible and secure way tocollaborate with data and AI assets. However, sharing can be complex and expensive withdifferent delivery methods, platforms and third-party data fragmented across systems. Typicalsharing and collaboration solutions are limited and lack ﬂexibility and security, restricting
innovation and resulting in unrealized business value. This can lead to three common challenges:

Challenges
1Complex data sharing solutions
limit innovation
Homegrown data sharing solutions often involve
custom data pipelines that limit governance andoperational visibility. Multiple, siloed systems areused to cover different clouds, platforms andinternal vs. external sharing. Onboarding new data
sets and new partners is often difﬁcult and slow.

2

Difﬁculty collaborating withmore than just data
As generative AI continues to evolve,
organizations increasingly need to collaborate
with more than just data. They need to share live
datasets, AI models, notebooks and solutions.
Companies typically need to replicate data
across multiple proprietary platforms, clouds andregions in order to facilitate collaboration.

3

Fragmented security, privacy andgovernance
Sharing data and AI assets raises signiﬁcantconcerns related to governance, security andprivacy. Today’s fragmented sharing solutions
make it difﬁcult to secure and govern sharedassets in a cost-efﬁcient way.

These challenges can leadto multiple pain points, most notably:
Unrealized business value
Missed opportunities to innovate
Security risks

Data collaborationdrives 3x greater
economicperformance.

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The Executive Guide to Data Sharing and Collaboration on Databricks

The Solution
A uniﬁed platform promotes easy, secure data sharing and collaboration and enables an organization to:
Accelerate innovation
Share data and AI assets(datasets, AI models, volumes,dashboards, solutions) withinyour organization or externallywith customers and partners
with a ﬂexible, open platformthat fuels rapid insights,innovation and growth. Data
consumers can discover andevaluate external data and AI
assets. Data providers canquickly monetize by sharing
the broadest set of data
assets with the broadest set ofdata consumers.

Simplify securecollaboration
Simplify access topreviously siloed data
assets across different data
sources, platforms andclouds. Reduce the numberof data sharing channels
and platforms needed todeliver data across clouds
or platforms, and minimize
the need for complex ETL
pipelines and data
replication across sharing
platforms. Share data
assets securely with built-ingovernance.

Centralize security andgovernanceA uniﬁed approachprovides a simple, uniﬁed
way to secure and govern
shared assets. Simply andsecurely share data andAI products acrossplatforms, clouds andregions with a uniﬁed
governance model that
honors data privacy andcompliance requirements.

The Databricks Solution
Democratize Data and AI Across the Organization
The Databricks Data Intelligence Platform makes it easier to get the data and insights you need by allowing you toshare data, AI and solutions in a uniﬁed way. This approach enables:
Faster innovation at scale
Accelerate innovation, deliver new revenue
sources and increase customer satisfaction byproviding immediate access to hundreds ofhigh-quality datasets, notebooks, AI models andsolutions. Rapidly enable sharing and secure,privacy-safe collaboration. Seamlessly integrateshared assets into company analytics,applications and AI.
Open and cross-platform collaboration
Leverage open standards for asset sharing
across clouds, platforms and regions to reduce
costs and eliminate complexity when sharing
with customers and partners. Discover andacquire high-quality and securely-sourced
data — within your organization or externally— to accelerate collaboration at scale.
Built-in governance, privacy and securityCentrally govern, track, audit and monitor theusage of your data and AI at scale with native
support from Unity Catalog in one platform. Run
conﬁdential computation in any language on
existing data and collaborate with multiple
partners with scalable data clean rooms on the
Data Intelligence Platform.

Consumers

Providers

Data sharing and collaboration
Databricks
Marketplace

Databricks CleanRooms

Powered by open source Delta Sharing

Secured and governed by Unity Catalog

Data

Notebooks
AI Models

Solutions
Dashboards

To learn more, visit:
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