Updated June 17, 2026

It’s Got to Be the Semantic Layer, Baby

AtScale's Dave Mariani and Snowflake's Carl Perry on why governed semantics, not a smarter LLM, is what makes AI agents trustworthy. For years, business intelligence ran on a human workaround. When two reports disagreed about "revenue," a trained BI analyst…

Posted by: Mark Palmer

Updated May 15, 2026

The Semantic Wars Are Here. Google, You’re Next.

Microsoft started a semantic war with Databricks. The next front is AI. Google customers need a semantic strategy to stay free on both. Microsoft just killed the connector that let Power BI read Databricks’ business metrics. This was the opening…

Posted by: Mark Palmer

Updated June 17, 2026

It’s Got to Be the Semantic Layer, Baby

AtScale's Dave Mariani and Snowflake's Carl Perry on why governed semantics, not a smarter LLM, is what makes AI agents trustworthy. For years, business intelligence ran on a human workaround. When two reports disagreed about "revenue," a trained BI analyst…

Posted by: Mark Palmer

Updated May 15, 2026

The Semantic Wars Are Here. Google, You’re Next.

Microsoft started a semantic war with Databricks. The next front is AI. Google customers need a semantic strategy to stay free on both. Microsoft just killed the connector that let Power BI read Databricks’ business metrics. This was the opening…

Posted by: Mark Palmer
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