The rise of coding agents has been hard to miss. In the last six months alone, Databricks Apps has seen major growth in the number of customers building apps, leading to a near doubling of the number of active running apps and more than 3x the number of users interacting with apps every week.

Anyone with a clear idea, whether it be a business analyst, a domain expert, or an operations lead, can describe what they need in plain language and get a functional application in hours — and this is transforming how our customers interact with their data.

But in the enterprise, teams need more than a fast starting point to capture value. Most vibe coding tools are optimized for speed and ease. But without the context to build something grounded in real business data–or the control to make sure what gets built is safe to deploy and cost-effective—apps cannot actually make a widespread impact in an organization.

At Data + AI Summit 2026, we talked about how Databricks is bringing apps vibe coding to the enterprise with three new key capabilities for Databricks Apps:

Our goal is to enable any user in the organization to safely create and deploy apps on Databricks.

But this means that Databricks admins need to ensure that developers–who may not be application security experts–are able to work securely with data. As more people build more apps, governance cannot happen one application at a time. Per-app configuration does not scale and creates bottlenecks for platform teams.