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/ 10 MIN READ

Will the real semantic layer please stand up?

Executive Summary: A semantic layer defines business metrics and computes them on request. A universal semantic layer makes those definitions available across AI agents, BI tools, and spreadsheets, reducing duplicated logic. An AtScale customer-count example…

Posted By: Ryan Siegler

/ 7 MIN READ

You Defined Your Metric Once. So Why Don't Your AI Tools Agree?

Executive summary AI tools don’t agree because each one writes its own query, and the query is where a metric gets computed. A shared definition tells a tool what retention means, but the tool still…

Posted By: Naveen Hariprasad

/ 4 MIN READ

Microsoft’s About-Face on Semantic Layer Standards

When Snowflake launched the Open Semantic Interchange in September 2025, dozens of companies signed on. Microsoft wasn’t one of them. Power BI’s semantic models stayed in DAX, built for Power BI, while the rest of…

Posted By: Chris Lynch

/ 10 MIN READ

A Wrong Answer Has Never Looked So Good

Executive Summary: An agent doesn’t have a gut check, so it treats a wrong answer as fact and can’t catch it before building the next question on top of it, and accuracy drags down fast…

Posted By: Dave Mariani

/ 9 MIN READ

The Missing Step in Text-to-SQL

Executive Summary: I asked how many units we sold in Q2 2008 against an AdventureWorks tutorial dataset and got 25,427 units. Correct. A second calendar in the same schema, a retail 4-4-5, returned 24,639. Also…

Posted By: Ryan Siegler

/ 6 MIN READ

The Missing Third Leg of Every Agentic AI Stack

Every architecture diagram I see draws the same three boxes. Sometimes it’s Model + RAG + MCP . Sometimes it’s Model + MCP + Tools. The labels move around, but the shape never changes. The…

Posted By: Dave Mariani

/ 3 MIN READ

The Other Half of Intelligence Efficiency

AI usage isn’t the same as AI value. That’s why Snowflake introduced “intelligence efficiency” this week. In a post on Snowflake’s blog , CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy laid out how companies are pouring money into AI,…

Posted By: Dave Mariani

/ 6 MIN READ

Have Meaning, Will Travel: Why Apache Ossie Needs You

Here’s a heretical question worth considering: what if standards are actually beside the point for semantic layers? Apache Ossie was recently announced as the open standard successor to the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI) initiative. Its…

Posted By: Luis Maldonado