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Governed catalogs that define business metrics, trusted tables, and joins on top of existing warehouse data.
Microsoft made Fabric IQ the default business context for Microsoft 365 Copilot at FabCon Barcelona and opened it to outside agents over MCP. The metric definitions teams keep in Power BI semantic models now shape what those agents answer.
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CData's Connect AI Gateway, now in early access, holds AI agents to each user's own permissions down to specific rows and columns. Teams deploying agents can now buy that control, though the accuracy claims behind it come from CData's own tests.
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Data agents must resolve each metric by version and effective date, a dev.to post argues, using a Revenue v3-to-v4 redefinition as its test case. Otherwise a Q1 question asked in September gets whatever definition the registry happens to hold that day.
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A dev.to post argues that logging prompts, SQL and latency cannot show how an agent read the question, and proposes eight append-only events running from resolved intent to final answer. It works if your metrics are already governed.
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A buyer's checklist published on dev.to puts accuracy measurement and permission enforcement ahead of the live demo, and every question on it comes with a test you can run inside the meeting. Its author sells in the category.
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PostHog asked Claude, Cursor and its own assistant the same revenue question and got three answers. Its remedy was a governed catalog of definitions stored as ordinary SQL tables.
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