As data environments become increasingly distributed across multiple clouds and systems, the challenge of maintaining consistent governance, access control, and compliance grows. Databricks Unity Catalog meets this challenge by providing a unified governance layer purpose-built for the modern data stack. It supports structured, unstructured, and federated data, spanning sources like SAP and beyond, as well as AI assets such as models, ensuring that data and AI assets are governed and fresh for decision-making AI and analytics.

Key Highlights

Databricks Unity Catalog provides unified governance across users, data, models, agents, and dashboards and extends anywhere with federated sources.

51% of organizations do not trust or even distrust their data for key decision-making.¹

44% of organizations are implementing data governance and AI principles into employee evaluations, emphasizing its cultural importance.

^1. Source: Enterprise Strategy Group Complete Survey Results, Data Governance in the Age of AI, June 2024. All research references in this Brief have been taken from these complete survey results unless otherwise noted.