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/ 5 MIN READ

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…

Posted By: Mark Palmer

/ 4 MIN READ

A Skill or README Isn't a Semantic Layer

Why not just give the agent a skill? A bunch of people asked this at this week’s Databricks Data + AI Summit . Write down what “revenue” means, drop the skill next to your data,…

Posted By: Mark Palmer

/ 7 MIN READ

Four AI Pillars and a Wide-Open Opportunity

I just got back from the Databricks Data & AI Summit, and I have a lot to unpack. This was the biggest DAIS yet, with 31,309 attendees, and the energy was unmistakable. More importantly, Databricks…

Posted By: Dave Mariani

/ 6 MIN READ

The Semantic Layer's New Job

Eighteen months ago, Blue Yonder’s analytics engineering team made a decision most data organizations haven’t made yet: they stopped being a BI team. They saw what was coming. AI agents don’t just need access to…

Posted By: Dave Mariani

/ 5 MIN READ

Enterprise AI: Separate the Reasoning from the Calculation

At this year’s Semantic Layer Summit , practitioners from Anthropic, Chevron, WPP, Accenture, NVIDIA, and OpenHands, compared notes on why production AI keeps breaking down. The consensus? The LLM is not the bottleneck. It’s context.…

Posted By: Jay Schuren

/ 4 MIN READ

Why I Joined AtScale: The Semantic Layer Inflection Point

Over four and a half years at Snowflake, I watched enterprises run into a problem that’s about to get much worse: every major platform has built its own semantic layer , and none of them…

Posted By: Mike Wandey