Ansley Yeo creates some rules:
Ontology Rules let you define conditions and actions on top of your business entities, rather than on raw tables or telemetry streams.
These rules are evaluated using Fabric Activator, which monitors and triggers actions when conditions are met. The unique value is that the rule logic is expressed in the language of your business, using ontology entities and properties.
Ontologies are a thing I’m not quite sold on yet, whether in Microsoft Fabric or elsewhere. I get the concept of what they do and the concept that this is business logic that the business side could theoretically do. What I have trouble with is seeing the practical benefits. Any time I see “Your business users can…” I immediately add in my mind, “But they won’t.” It feels like people getting giddy over object-oriented development over the data.
That said, I am actively learning about the topic, so maybe I’ll change my mind as I learn more.