DATABRICKS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE
Greenfield Lakehouse Activation
Benefits
- Accelerate high-value analytics initiatives and gain experience with Databricks.
- Get up and running on Databricks in an accelerated timeline.
- Complete two (2) full data pipelines and analyze with SQL analytics and BI tools.
Activation overview
Introduce
a data team to the Lakehouse
Prepare
Databricks & data services, non-prod env.
Complete
two full data pipelines
Analyze
with SQL Analytics and BI tools
Activation timeline
Deployment journey
Trial activation
- SaaS platform trial enabled
- No inbound cloud firewall blocks
AWS or Azure readiness
- Account with create-rights
- Terraform installed
Activation data sources
- Cloud accessible services identified
- Read-only account
Scripted build
- Resource / Admin groups
- Storage, Databricks workspace, clusters
- Unity Catalog / Metastore / Permissions
- Blueprint Lakehouse Optimizer
Sample data & notebooks
- Samples deployed
- 3 notebooks deployed
Workflows active
- Enable job/workflows, scheduled
Databricks is LIVE!
- SQL analysis workshop
- Power BI / Tableau
- Engineering & workflow demos
Lakehouse optimized
- Monitor jobs
- Understand costs
- Identify orphaned workloads
Deliverables
Build a net-new use case and validate
cost vs performance and usability of Databricks platform.
- TCO and performance projection report
- Established Databricks Lakehouse environment
- Data ingestion pipeline
- Platform utilization monitoring app
- Working end-to-end use case/business process
deployed to non-production environment - Results report and demonstration
