ArticleFabric IQ: Giving AI Agents a Shared Business Vocabulary
Fabric IQ is Microsoft Fabric's enterprise intelligence layer for turning raw OneLake data into shared, reusable business meaning — an ontology of entities, relationships, and rules built on top of existing semantic models — so that reports, agents, and applications all reason about "customer" or "shipment" the same way. This article covers what Fabric IQ is, the items at its core (including the Planning workload and the Operations Agent), how the ontology and its agents actually execute, and why skipping a shared ontology layer is a governance risk for AI systems.