Session

SharePoint to Lakehouse with Lakeflow Connect — Top 5 Powerful GenAI Patterns

Overview

ExperienceIn Person
TrackData Engineering & Streaming
IndustryHealthcare & Life Sciences, Public Sector, Financial Services
TechnologiesAI/BI, Databricks SQL, Lakeflow
Skill LevelIntermediate

Many organizations have rich SharePoint data but struggle to use it at scale for intelligence, reporting, and automation. In this demo-heavy session, we demonstrate how to leverage valuable SharePoint content as a first-class data source for data intelligence and analytics by ingesting it into your lakehouse.Using the new Lakeflow Connect SharePoint connector, we will demonstrate incremental, governed pipelines (via Unity Catalog) that ingest both structured data (Excel, CSV, lists) and unstructured content (PDFs, Office files, images). Data lands as streaming tables enriched with SharePoint metadata to power downstream analytics, search, and AI.We will walk through five low-lift, high-impact patterns: driving an AI-powered BI dashboard from Excel and list data, summarizing and analyzing PDF reports, querying PowerPoint decks via natural language in a secure Genie Room, OCR’ing scanned images for text extraction, and consolidating many CSV reports into a single streaming table.

Session Speakers

Russ Houberg

/Sr. Solutions Architect
Databricks