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Databricks announces the General Availability of Unity Catalog Business Semantics, an open and unified semantic layer for defining business metrics consistently across BI dashboards, developer workflows, and AI agents.
•Metric Views allow teams to define KPIs centrally in SQL with semantic metadata (display names, formats, synonyms), governed directly in Unity Catalog and portable across all surfaces
•Materialization support enables automatic pre-aggregation, incremental refresh, and intelligent query rewriting, delivering up to 10x faster queries without manual pipeline management
•A new point-and-click UI in Unity Catalog Explorer lets both technical and non-technical users create and manage Metric Views without writing SQL
•Genie Code integrates agentic AI into the authoring workflow to bootstrap semantic models, suggest measures and dimensions, and validate changes against real data
•Core Metric View implementation is being open sourced in Apache Spark OSS, with Unity Catalog
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