Explicit Measures Podcast 572: Does the Ontology Agent Change Our Minds?
Oct 15, 2026
Fabric IQ’s Ontology Agent promises to make business ontologies easier to build, query, and maintain. The discussion explores governance, ownership, workspace context, document-based business meaning, and the limits of today’s agent workflows. They also examine Fabric App Functions, Materialized Lake Views, and whether preview features are ready for serious BI use.
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Fabric Apps Need Server-Side Functions
- Fabric App Functions make server-side TypeScript logic a first-class part of Fabric apps.
- They handle protected APIs, secrets, business rules, calculations, and workspace access without exposing credentials in the browser.
Materialized Lake Views Simplify File Ingestion
- Materialized Lake Views can ingest CSV or Parquet folders directly and materialize transformed Delta tables.
- Dynamic schemas and append-only refreshes may automatically incorporate new files as they arrive.
Ontologies Give Agents Business Context
- Fabric’s ontology defines business entities, relationships, rules, metrics, and shared vocabulary across analytics and operational systems.
- Its purpose is agentic reasoning about how concepts relate, not merely modeling tables and columns.