With Fabric IQ, Microsoft is adding new semantic intelligence capabilities to its unified data and analytics platform, Fabric, that it says will help enterprises maintain a common data model and automate operational decisions.

We’ll be hearing a lot more about “IQ” from Microsoft, which has also just introduced Work IQ, the semantic intelligence layer for Microsoft 365, and Foundry IQ, a managed knowledge system for grounding AI agents via multiple knowledge repositories, that together with Fabric IQ form what Microsoft calls a “shared intelligence layer” for the enterprise.

Fabric IQ will offer five integrated capabilities, Microsoft said: the ability to create an ontology or shared model of business entities, relationships, rules, and objectives; a semantic model extending business intelligence definitions beyond analytics to AI and operations; a native graph engine to enable multi-hop reasoning with data; virtual analysts called data agents that can answer business questions; and autonomous operations agents that can reason, learn, and act in real time.