Databricks Consumer Goods Global

adidas

Enterprise Knowledge Search · Marketing Personalization

adidas needed a more scalable review-analysis stack because its legacy chatbot was not built for GenAI or RAG, response times were high, and nontechnical users could not easily explore customer sentiment.

30–40% efficiency gains
60% latency reduction
91.67% cost savings
Adopting more efficient LLMs vastly improved analysis and response time 60% latency reduction

Reported impact

Business outcome

adidas reported Driving product innovation through customer feedback 30–40% efficiency gains, Analysts transformed over 2 million customer reviews into actionable insights, and 91.67% cost savings, improving RAG-based product review analysis and insight generation with measurable gains in productivity improvement, cost reduction, customer experience, and speed to market.

  • Cost Reduction
  • Customer Experience
  • Productivity Improvement
  • Speed to Market

Solution

adidas uses Databricks AI Search, Databricks BGE Large, Databricks Model Serving, and Unity Catalog to support RAG-based product review analysis and insight generation. adidas needed a more scalable review-analysis stack because its legacy chatbot was not built for GenAI or RAG, response times were high, and nontechnical users could not easily explore customer sentiment. In practice, the implementation stores or organizes core datasets in Databricks AI Search, governs access and lineage with Unity Catalog, runs transformation or AI logic on Databricks BGE Large, and delivers outputs through Databricks Model Serving. Documents, notes, and knowledge assets are consolidated into Databricks AI Search; Databricks BGE Large applies analytics or model logic; results are surfaced through Databricks Model Serving. The case study reports Driving product innovation through customer feedback 30–40% efficiency gains, Analysts transformed over 2 million customer reviews into actionable insights,...

Data flow

Documents, notes, and knowledge assets are consolidated into Databricks AI Search; Databricks BGE Large applies analytics or model logic; results are surfaced through Databricks Model Serving.

Solution architecture

6 components · 4 layers
  1. Compute
    • Databricks BGE Large Provides the language or embedding model used for reasoning, retrieval, or response generation
    • MLflow Tracks experiments and model lifecycle management for the deployed ai workloads
    • Claude Haiku Provides the language or embedding model used for reasoning, retrieval, or response generation
  2. Storage
    • Databricks AI Search Indexes domain content for retrieval-augmented answers and grounded responses
  3. Serving
    • Databricks Model Serving Hosts production inference endpoints that return summaries, predictions, or recommendations
  4. Governance
    • Unity Catalog Enforces access controls, lineage, and governance across the data and models used in this workflow

Architecture clues

  • Analysts transformed over 2 million customer reviews into actionable insights
  • Centralized governance and lineage are enforced through Unity Catalog.

Evidence from the source

91.67% cost savings
Adopting more efficient LLMs vastly improved analysis and response time 60% latency reduction
Analysts transformed over 2 million customer reviews into actionable insights
Driving product innovation through customer feedback 30–40% efficiency gains
“The GenAI infrastructure we built is already enabling use cases beyond product reviews,” Rahul said. “Teams are now exploring applications in customer service, knowledge management and other feedback channels.”
Transparency Evidence & methodology 95/100 reference value · 89% confidence · 1 source

Review how this reference was scored and trace each normalized claim back to its documented source.

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Scoring methodology

How scores are calculated

Customer Reference Value measures usefulness as a customer reference. Evidence Confidence measures the quality and traceability of available evidence, not independent verification.

Customer reference value95/100
  • Problem clarity20/20
    Measures whether the customer's operational problem is specific enough to compare.
  • Implementation depth20/25
    Rewards named components, data flow, integrations, and architecture detail.
  • Outcome specificity20/20
    Measures whether the reported benefit is concrete rather than a generic claim.
  • Quantified impact25/25
    6 metrics describe measurable impact.
  • Deployment scale10/10
    Rewards evidence of a live or scaled deployment and meaningful integration scope.
Evidence confidence89%
  • Source authority20/25
    The main evidence is an official vendor-published customer story.
  • Claim traceability21/25
    10 of 12 key fields link to a named source.
  • Direct evidence20/20
    5 direct source quotes retained.
  • Date provenance10/10
    The publication date comes from the source page or publisher.
  • Source transparency8/10
    1 source reference document publisher, URL, authority, retrieval, and supported fields.
  • Implementation specificity10/10
    Rewards source-backed components, data flow, quantified impact, and a specific outcome.
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Traceability

Sources & provenance

Field coverage shows which facts each source supports. Dates are shown only when documented by the source.

  1. Databricks

    adidas customer story

    First-party
    https://www.databricks.com/customers/adidas
    Source type
    Vendor-published customer story
    Published
    Jul 17, 2025
    Supports
    • Customer
    • Business problem
    • Solution
    • Products
    • Solution components
    • Data flow
    • Integrations
    • technical area
    • use case category
    • Business outcome
    • outcome category
    • Metrics
    • Architecture
    • evidence quotes
    • Publication date

Date evidence

  • Published on source page Jul 17, 2025 · Databricks · First-party
    Open date source
Not separately sourced Industry, Region, Company size. Treat these normalized attributes as lower-confidence until a dedicated source is added.