- Glean has been named Databricks’ 2026 ISV AI Visionary Partner of the Year, highlighting the momentum of their partnership and a shared focus on helping customers get more value from their AI, data, and workflows.
- The Glean + Databricks integration connects governed, structured business data from Databricks with Glean’s enterprise context layer, so users can ask natural language questions and receive trusted, permission-aware answers enriched with relevant documents, conversations, and workflow context in one AI experience.
- For customers, this partnership enables faster, self-serve, and more comprehensive decision-making: business users can get governed SQL results via Databricks Genie, easily find and use Databricks dashboards, and power richer agent workflows and automated reports with Glean Agents, all while extending the ROI of existing data assets.
We’re proud to share that Glean has been named the 2026 Databricks Partner Award winner: ISV AI Visionary Partner of the Year.
This recognition marks the latest milestone in Glean’s infrastructure, data, and workflow partnerships. Across our partnerships, the goal is the same: help customers to work with AI and scale their knowledge and workflows in ways that are useful, secure, and easy to adopt.
Together, Glean and Databricks integrate data and decisions into one AI experience, helping organizations unlock more value for users across both our customer ecosystems and close the distance between what happened, why it happened, and what to do next.
Most organizations have already done the hard work of becoming data-driven. They've standardized on platforms such as Databricks, built governed pipelines, and invested in dashboards, models, and analytic workflows that the business depends on every day.
But for most employees, getting from question to insight is still harder than it should be. Answering a routine question often requires SQL, the right dashboard, or a request to an already-stretched team. And when the answer arrives, the context around it — the rollout plan, the customer call, the support thread, the prior commitment — lives somewhere else entirely.
That’s where Glean and Databricks comes in — helping teams bring together the numbers and the narratives needed to scale decisions and actions in the AI era.
Where governed data meets enterprise context
Glean and Databricks help customers connect two essential parts of the enterprise AI stack.
Databricks provides governed access to structured business data, while Glean provides the enterprise context layer across the rest of the company’s systems and workflows. Together, they create a more complete AI experience: one where users can get trusted answers from Databricks and quickly connect them to the documents, conversations, and business context.
- Users can ask questions in natural language and get governed answers from Databricks directly in Glean’s interfaces and agents.
- Data and analytics teams can safely extend the value and ROI of the dashboards, tables, and models they’ve built.
- Every answer respects existing permissions and controls. Databricks' governance model determines what data each user can query; Glean's permission-aware retrieval ensures the surrounding context follows the same rules.
- Self-serve access doesn't mean unsecured access, and leaders can extend trusted insight to more teams without giving up control.
What customers can do with Glean + Databricks
Together, Glean and Databricks make it easier to analyze and orchestrate across the business.
Get context-aware and accurate answers through governed data
When business users ask business questions in natural language through Glean Assistant, Databricks Genie can then translate those questions into governed SQL queries against Databricks data. This helps remove technical barriers for everyday employees and reduces dependence on analysts for routine questions, helping both users and analysts focus on the highest value tasks. Data users working on the Databricks platform can ask natural language queries through Databricks Genie and call Glean MCP for additional context. No matter which interface you choose, users will get the same answer.
Find trusted assets faster
Glean helps users discover Databricks AI/BI dashboards and related assets more easily through search and assistant experiences. That makes it simpler for teams to find the right dashboard, understand it, and use it in the flow of real work.
Build richer agent workflows
The partnership also opens the door to stronger agent experiences. Glean Agents can invoke the direct SQL action or the Databricks Genie action for governed, structured results. Builders and technical users can automate AI workflows like weekly or monthly reports with Glean Agents and Databricks.
How this shows up for customers
Imagine a customer success leader preparing for a renewal. They ask in Glean: "Which enterprise accounts saw usage decline more than 20% last quarter?"
Databricks Genie translates that question into a governed query and returns the answer from live Databricks data without SQL, no ticket, and no waiting. In the same response, Glean surfaces the context already spread across her company's systems: the support escalations from one account, the stalled rollout doc from another, the note from the last QBR where a champion changed roles.
With this integration, users walk into the renewal conversation with the number and the story, without having to open five tools to assemble it. That same pattern works across the business:
- Product leaders can see which features are driving adoption in key segments, then connect those results to experiment docs, rollout plans, and customer feedback to understand what's actually working.
- Revenue and marketing operations teams can explore pipeline and campaign trends, grounded immediately in account context, meeting notes, and field feedback.
- Data and analytics teams can extend the reach of the tables, models, and AI/BI dashboards they've already built with fewer repetitive "what's the number?" requests and greater adoption of their work.
Looking ahead
We're proud of the momentum behind this partnership, and excited for what it means for customers: more value from the Databricks and Glean investments they've already made, available to more people who need it.
This award reflects the momentum behind Glean and Databricks, as well as the growing demand for AI experiences that connect governed data with the full context of work.
To learn more about how Glean and Databricks help teams unlock governed, business-ready AI, explore the joint solution and see it in action.
