semantic layer

CData’s recent stretch into the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem marks a clear pivot: the company that spent years building universal connectors is now selling not just access to data, but the context that makes that data usable by agents and AI assistants in production. The launch of...

Strategy’s partner pitch — “Partner with us to build AI‑ready data foundations for world class organizations” — is more than marketing copy; it’s a strategic pivot that threads together three converging market forces: decades of business‑intelligence pedigree, the enterprise rush to...

Microsoft’s Ignite keynote and product pages have confirmed a deliberate step toward making enterprise data “meaningful” to both people and machines: Fabric IQ, introduced as a preview capability inside Microsoft Fabric, layers semantic intelligence over analytics, time‑series, geospatial and...

The artificial intelligence revolution, once a promise confined to tech demos and ambitious roadmaps, is now rewriting the way enterprises deploy, manage, and even imagine productivity solutions. At the center of this seismic shift stand AI agents and copilots—technologies that, according to...