One Platform to Replace Them All: Our Databricks Migration

Fonterra is on a journey to replace thousands of traditional reports with AI‑driven, self‑service analytics powered by Databricks AI/BI and Genie. Today, the platform supports more than 1,300 data products and over 25 Genie Spaces, driving strong adoption and measurable business impact across the organization.

In this session, we’ll share how the Ingredients and Trading team transitioned from a fragmented landscape of on‑premises systems, tools, and databases to a unified Databricks platform. This shift has enabled a move from static, report‑based consumption to governed, natural language access to data—making insights faster, simpler, and more accessible.

We’ll walk through the transformation journey, highlight immediate wins across Ingredients and Trading as well as the wider Fonterra business, and outline what’s next. This includes how AI/BI Dashboards and Genie spaces are becoming the new standard and how Databricks applications are featuring on the roadmap. By connecting Genie Spaces with Knowledge Agents for leadership reporting, Fonterra is scaling AI‑powered analytics to thousands of users enterprise‑wide.