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Omni Semantic Layer Architecture: AI Agents and the Future of Analytics

omni-semantic-layer-architecture

Giving an AI agent access to your database is the easy part. You now need to get it to return answers your team can actually trust, and also write those answers into the tools developers already use. This is the architecture challenge and I will show you how to solve it with the Omni semantic […]

Can you trust enterprise AI? Only if you have a semantic layer.

can you trust enterprise AI

Every executive team is asking the same question right now: how do we turn our AI investment into better business decisions? The ambition is there; so are the budgets and the tools. But the results do not match expectations. When looking for the reason, people tend to think the model is wrong or there is […]

Informatica vs dbt: The Ultimate Comparison

Informatica vs dbt

After more than two decades of honourable service, Informatica PowerCenter is approaching end-of-support. During these years, on-premise, visual, point-and-click tools have also lost the battle to code-driven, cloud-native alternatives, especially in the enterprise arena. Now, enterprise AI ambitions are giving data leaders the ultimate mandate to overcome the traditional enterprise inertia, and do the jump […]

Implement Data Mesh: ADLC as the Great Enabler

implementing data mesh with adlc

Over the past few years, data mesh has attracted significant attention. Organisations adopt it to address slow delivery, central bottlenecks, and unclear ownership in their data landscape. However, turning this ambition into practice can prove challenging. The difficulty lies not only in designing the right technical architecture, but also in leading the organisational change, especially […]

Snowflake Intelligence Is Here: Now Your Data Can Finally Talk

Snowflake Intelligence

In most organisations, data is abundant, and yet trusted insights remain scarce. Nearly 40% of CFOs say they cannot fully trust their organisation’s data1. At the same time, consultancies note that dashboards are reaching the end of their usefulness, with static dashboards likely to give way to intelligent conversational systems2. Against this backdrop, Snowflake Intelligence […]

Modern Data Platform Adoption: The Human Side of Migrations

Modern Data Platform Adoption: The Human Side of Migrations

Cutting-edge data platforms open new doors to businesses, as they enable enterprise AI and inform strategic decisions. However, successful transformation takes a holistic approach to the modern data platform adoption that goes far beyond the technology itself. While many enterprises invest heavily in modern data platforms on the cloud, they often struggle to see tangible […]

Real-time purchase intent prediction with ML inference in Snowpark Container Services

Purchase intent ML with Snowflake

Websites tend to reflect the local markets. In Southeast Asian traditional markets, two things are certain: Bargaining Vendors’ talent of reading micro-expressions on a passerby to predict the likelihood of purchase. The combination of these two means that vendors can intervene with a better offer in the right moment, before they lose a potential customer. […]

Let's compare CrewAI, AutoGen, Vertex AI, and LangGraph multi-agent frameworks

Compare CrewAI, AutoGen, VertexAI, LangGraph

In this article, we compare CrewAI, AutoGen, Vertex AI, and LangGraph, four modern multi-agent frameworks, in the context of enabling natural-language (NL) querying and self-service analytics on data platforms. We explore each in terms of key dimensions (NL-to-SQL querying, BI integration, orchestration, semantic-layer support, dev experience, deployment, and target users) and provide small proof of […]

Data platform migration beyond the tech stack: Patties Food Group

Data platform migration beyond the tech stack_ Patties

Data teams often find themselves balancing business needs against budget constraints and limited headcount, not to mention the increasing pressures to catch up with ever-changing technologies. If you have a three-person data team that maintains hundreds of tables & serves thousands of reports for internal and external stakeholders, the challenge multiplies with a tech stack […]

dbt Fusion FAQ: All You Need to Know About the New dbt Engine

dbt Labs has introduced dbt Fusion, a new engine designed to modernise how we work with dbt projects. You might be deciding whether it is time to try Fusion, or simply looking to understand what is changing. This dbt Fusion FAQ article addresses the most common questions. Which data platforms does dbt Fusion support? In […]

Customer Reviews Analytics with Snowflake Cortex: Practical Guide

Snowflake Cortex for Customer Reviews Analytics

As data practitioners, we often get the question of how to use AI to extract meaningful insights from the vast volumes of unstructured customer feedback that companies collect. Recently, we built a demo of such a solution, leveraging the official Customer Reviews Analytics Quickstart and Snowflake Cortex for customer reviews analytics. This article gives you […]