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The Demo and the System: Implementing and Governing Natural-Language Query
Natural-language query is sold as one thing and built as two: a funding demo that needs only a model and a data store, and a system that needs agreed definitions, an approved semantic model served through one governed route, and mature master data underneath. What each part asks of the people…
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What the Model Cannot Infer: Semantic Layers, Master Data and Readiness for AI-Assisted Decisions
Under the hood, the model is the last step in a chain: mastering decides which records are real, the semantic layer decides what they mean, and the measurements that hold the model fixed show the layer doing the work. What no model can infer is why the business defined a number the way it did.
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The Vocabulary Outlived the Interface: Fifty Years of Asking the Data a Question
From a moon-rock database in 1971 to Power BI's Q&A, retiring in 2027, every attempt to let people ask business data a question in English needed the business's words supplied first. The interfaces were retired, or are being retired, one after another; whether that vocabulary survived depended on…
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More Coherent Either Way: Decision Intelligence, Governed Master Data, and the Question the Grid Doesn't Ask
A field experiment with 758 consultants handed one of its arms a spreadsheet built to look complete and interview notes that held the details, and on that task the groups with GPT-4 were 19 percentage points less likely to be right and more persuasive either way. Beside it, a practitioner's record…
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Ideally, Nothing: What Agentic AI Actually Changes About Trusted Master Data
What agentic AI changes about trusted master data is, ideally, nothing about the standard. The bill and the packaging move, and the maturity-ladder gate most teams reach for should give way to one that asks what a change would cost to undo.
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The Number Was Never Doing the Work: AI, BI, and the Limits of Better Evidence
Jordan M. has spent about a decade saying that a number never changed anybody's mind. This is the essay where he goes looking for the place that claim fails — and finds it three times, in sources he had not read carefully enough, none of them hostile.
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