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/ 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

/ 3 MIN READ

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

/ 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

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…

Posted By: Mark Palmer