Microsoft Fabric IQ

Business
Opinion
KnowledgeGraphs
Yes, Microsoft is also the new semantic hipster.

The new Microsoft Fabric IQ semantic layer ships with an ontology of business entities, relationships, rules and actions, a native graph engine for multi-hop reasoning, and an MCP server so AI agents can discover and act on that semantic context. It’s Power BI’s semantic model, grown up and turned into a graph.

The pattern across the industry is now identical: Microsoft (Fabric IQ + GraphRAG), Google (Spanner Graph + Agentspace’s per-customer enterprise knowledge graph), Cosmos DB’s OmniRAG routing between vector, SQL and graph. I mentioned SAP, Palantir and more some days ago. Everyone has converged to the same thesis, AI without a semantic layer hallucinates. The semantic layer is a graph.

This is good news for those of us building in the knowledge-graph space. The category just got validated by the largest software companies in the world.

Whether jumping on an it-makes-it-easy platform or take time to develop your own ontology, well that’s where it’s good to have a little chat with someone 😊

Microsoft Fabric IQ