14/10/2026
If your finance dashboard and your Databricks tables give different revenue numbers, which one is right?
When BI sits in a separate tool fed by extracts, that question comes up more often than anyone would like. Data gets copied, definitions get rebuilt in two places, and before long the numbers don't match. You end up paying for two platforms and fully trusting neither.
This week Databricks was named a Visionary in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms. Databricks' argument is that BI belongs inside the data platform, with metrics and business definitions set once and governed in one place, so dashboards, analysts and AI agents all work from the same answer.
Even if you keep your BI where it is, ask yourself whether you're getting full value from the Databricks platform you already pay for.
We wrote about that here: https://ap1.hubs.ly/H01rnKY0
Already have Databricks? See why implementation, not the platform, decides real value. Mero is a New Zealand Databricks implementation partner.