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/ 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

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AI Isn't Replacing BI. It's Finally Finishing the Job.

Will AI replace BI?  Consider this: The cloud didn’t kill the data warehouse. Self-service didn’t kill the dashboard. Donald Farmer , who’s watched decades of this cycle repeat, put it to me plainly on the…

Posted By: Dave Mariani

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Five Questions Every CDO Should Ask About AI and Semantics

The metrics powering your AI agents right now, like margin per square foot or total economic cost, probably don’t belong to you. They belong to whichever platform computes them today. Snowflake, Databricks, the frontier LLM…

Posted By: Dave Mariani

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Don’t Let Microsoft Be Your Warden

Microsoft just made the case for AtScale by playing Warden Norton, the prison boss from “The Shawshank Redemption.” On Tuesday, Sara Vredevoogd from Microsoft’s Power BI team announced that Microsoft 365 Copilot can now query…

Posted By: Mark Palmer

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My Case for the Semantic Layer, Made Live on Atlan's Podcast

I recently joined Austin Kronz on Atlan’s podcast, WTF is the Context Layer , to discuss one of the biggest sources of confusion in enterprise AI: the distinction between semantic layers , context layers, and…

Posted By: Dave Mariani

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The Real AI Sovereignty Fight Is About Meaning

In the last few weeks, the sovereignty conversation has moved from academic to urgent. Palantir’s Alex Karp went on CNBC to explain the logic behind his company’s partnership with NVIDIA and spent 20 minutes arguing…

Posted By: Dave Mariani