Center of Excellence

Databricks Center of Excellence

Enterprises often struggle to scale Databricks
beyond initial projects due to challenges with
governance, cost management, security, and
adoption across business units.

Infinitive’s Databricks Center of Excellence
(CoE) offering provides a structured
framework that enables customers to operate
Databricks as an enterprise-grade platform
for analytics, AI, and data engineering —
balancing innovation with governance and
cost efficiency.

CoE Vision

A Databricks CoE transforms the platform from a powerful tool into an enterprise-wide capability, utilizing Infinitive’s experience and based on the core principals of the Databricks Well Architected framework.

CoE Capabilities

With our Center of Excellence framework, customers achieve:

Enterprise-Grade Security

Establish a compliance-ready access and audit framework with centralized governance and role-based controls. Enable consistent monitoring and traceability across enterprise data and analytics platforms.

Operational Clarity

Provide operational clarity by defining roles, responsibilities, and ownership across platform teams and business units. Support aligned decision-making and scalable operations.

Cost Transparency

Empower your organization to optimize Databricks spend across business units. Gain actionable insights that drive smarter budgeting, reduce waste, and maximize the ROI of your data and AI investments.

Reliable Operations & Recovery

High platform availability through proactive monitoring, resilient fault-tolerant design, automated failover, and tested disaster recovery to minimize downtime and ensure continuity.

Accelerated Adoption

Quickly onboard new lines of business and users, reducing time-to-value and driving faster, organization-wide engagement with your data and AI platforms.

Governed innovation

Empower AI and analytics initiatives at scale by balancing agility with compliance, ensuring innovative solutions are both fast-moving and secure.

Our Approach

Infinitive tailors the Databricks Center of Excellence to your organization's maturity, business goals, and regulatory environment.
With our approach, the CoE establishes:

Team Structure & Roles
Defined ownership across platform admin, governance, FinOps, and LOB champions.
FinOps & Cost Management
Real-time cost visibility, chargeback/showback models, and optimization playbooks.
Platform Security
Role-based access controls, audit logging, integration with enterprise IAM/SIEM tools.
User Access Strategy
Tiered user enablement (engineers, analysts, ML/AI teams, business consumers) with self-service onboarding.
Governance Framework
Data, AI, and model governance leveraging Unity Catalog, MLflow, and enterprise compliance frameworks.
Reliability & Resilience
Platform health monitoring, environment standardization, automated recovery workflows, and disaster recovery strategies designed to meet enterprise SLAs

Databricks Excellence Starts Here

Enterprise-grade Databricks starts here. Download the broucher to explore how Infinitive’s CoE framework drives adoption, governance, and cost clarity.

The Blueprint to a Unified Operation

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