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Get answers from Azure Data Lake files without downloading them
For data and analytics teams who want anyone to get answers from Azure Data Lake extracts by asking their AI assistant, not the data team.
On this page
Connector
Connect Azure Data Lake, pick your AI tool and paste the prompt.
The problem
Simple answers stuck in files only the data team can reach
The answer to a simple question often sits in a CSV extract in Azure Data Lake. Getting it means knowing which container and folder holds the latest file, downloading it and filtering it, so most people wait for the data team.
Without PopdockAI
- Find which container and folder holds the latest file
- Download the extract
- Filter it in a spreadsheet
- Wait for the data team when you cannot
With PopdockAI
- You ask in plain words
- Files your admin set up as lists are read for you
- Results are filtered and sorted only through exposed fields
- Nobody browses storage or writes a query
Who it's for
One answer, three teams that use it
Account managers
Check customer status yourself
Ask who is on hold or over limit without waiting for someone to pull a file.
Which customers in the Northeast are over their credit limit?
Sales operations
Look up territory data quickly
Find who manages a territory or account from the salesperson extract in one question.
Who is the salesperson for Contoso and which territory are they in?
Purchasing staff
Answer vendor questions without downloads
Get vendor details from the vendor extract without browsing storage.
Which vendors in the Packaging class are marked inactive?
How it works
What PopdockAI does when you ask
You ask a question and your AI assistant reads the data lake files your admin set up as lists. It returns the matching rows and uses only the fields your admin exposes.
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Ask
You ask a question in plain words.
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Read
It reads the Azure Data Lake files set up as lists, using allowed fields.
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Answer
You get the matching rows as an answer, with no storage to browse.
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The outcome
Answers from the data lake in a chat
Related use cases
More ways to put this data to work
Ask your AI about a whole Azure Data Lake folder as one dataset
Your admin sets up an Azure Data Lake folder as one list, so your AI can answer across every file in it at once, with new files included automatically.
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Get an Azure Data Lake extract as an Excel file from your AI
Ask your AI for the rows you need and it reads the Azure Data Lake list and returns a real Excel file with a set file name, worksheet and the columns your admin chose.
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Give AI access to Azure Data Lake scoped to each team and client
IT turns chosen Azure Data Lake files into lists and decides which ones each user, team and AI client can use, down to the fields and fixed filters, with every call logged.
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