If you followed along with the announcements from Microsoft Ignite, you might have stumbled upon the new Fabric IQ service.
For many people, this new service can seem a bit strange to see the point in, so in this blogpost I will try to help you understand the usage and business value of the new service.
Ontologies aren’t new—it’s mostly a metadata management exercise—but there are several companies (like Palantir) pushing this hard in their tools, and Microsoft is working that market segment. But instead of using all of this metadata management for data quality or master data management reasons, it’s for feeding into language models.