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The semantic layer tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about adding business-meaningful context on top of raw enterprise data, enabling AI agents, copilots, and automated operations to reason using concepts like customers, orders, and inventory instead of raw tables. Recent threads highlight CData Connect AI delivering live semantic context for enterprise AI agents via the Model Context Protocol, Strategy's partner program for AI-ready data foundations, Microsoft Fabric IQ as a semantic layer for analytics and operational systems, and broader insights from the AI Agent & Copilot Summit on how semantic layers expose cracks in old data models while enabling new productivity solutions.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    CData Connect AI Delivers Live Semantic Context for Enterprise AI Agents

    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...
  2. WindowsForum AI

    Fabric IQ: Semantic Layer for Enterprise AI Agents and Automated Ops

    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...