Databricks Solution Accelerator
Every organisation has data everywhere — in databases, lakes, SaaS tools, internal systems, and spreadsheets hiding in shared drives. What’s missing is a way for people to ask questions naturally and get trustworthy, context-aware answers without hunting through schemas or dashboards.
Elastacloud’s Chat QnA Accelerator lets your team chat directly with your data, no matter where it lives. One question. One answer. Full governance.
It’s the easiest way to turn distributed data into a conversation.
Teams don’t struggle because they lack data.
They struggle because they lack a way to reach it meaningfully.
But the path between question and answer feels painfully long.
Chat QnA removes that friction with:
Insight becomes a dialogue, not a ticket.
Modern data estates are powerful but complex.
The result:
Data fragmentation is the enemy of clarity. Chat QnA closes the gap.
Before a business user can ask a question, they quietly worry:
This cognitive overhead kills analytics adoption.
Chat QnA’s assumptions engine eliminates the guesswork by mapping schemas, keys, joins, synonyms, lexicons, and business rules automatically.
It creates an intelligent mesh of your entire data estate, so users simply ask… and get answers.
BI tools show great metrics.
But people still need a way to ask follow-ups.
Traditional dashboards can’t handle:
Chat QnA provides:
The user gets a clean, accurate answer without knowing schemas or SQL.

Once connected to your data, the accelerator:
Every response is explainable, auditable, and linked to trusted data.

| Component | Role |
|---|---|
| Databricks Mosaic AI | Provides LLM-powered reasoning and analysis |
| Foundation Models | Understand complex, multi-step user queries |
| Unity Catalog | Enforces governance, permissions, and lineage |
| External Connectors | Query non-Databricks data without migration |
| Plotly Visualisation Engine | Renders charts from natural language instructions |
| Assumptions Engine | Maps schema, relationships, rules, and business lexicons |
Chat QnA doesn’t need a perfect data warehouse — it makes the warehouse smarter.

| Question | What Chat QnA Returns |
|---|---|
| “Show customer churn by region over the last 12 months” | Plotly chart + summary + citation |
| “What’s the average time to resolve high-priority cases?” | KPI + explanation + source table link |
| “Do we have any outliers in Q4 revenue reporting?” | Detection + chart + narrative |
| “Which suppliers cause the most delays?” | Ranked list + joins applied automatically |
Chat QnA only answers using data the user has permission to see.
Everything stays inside your compliance perimeter.
| Outcome | Impact |
|---|---|
| Democratized insight | Non-technical staff self-serve analytics |
| Reduced analyst workload | Fewer ad-hoc SQL and BI requests |
| Faster decisions | Answers delivered in seconds |
| Higher data trust | Every answer is cited and explainable |
| Stronger governance | No rogue spreadsheets or shadow queries |
The right answer, every time, for every user.
Start Small. Scale Everywhere.
We typically launch Chat QnA in 3–6 weeks:
Each new dataset and team makes the system smarter.
With Chat QnA, every user becomes data-capable.
Every question becomes insight.
Every insight reinforces trust.
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