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Data

Data as a Product: The Core of Modern Data Platforms

Treating datasets as products, with owners, contracts and service levels, is the operating model behind every data platform that actually scales.

SCIKIQ AI Desk17 Jul 20263 min read
Data-driven decision-makingThe importance of data management

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AI

Knowledge Graphs Combat AI Hallucination Effectively

Knowledge graphs cut hallucination by giving models structured relationships to reason over, instead of leaving them to infer facts from loose text.

Structured context for accuracyThe role of knowledge graphs
17 Jul 20263 min read
News & Updates

MCP Standardises AI Agents' Connection to Enterprise Tools

MCP gives agents one standard way to reach enterprise tools and data, replacing the bespoke connector work that every AI project rebuilt from scratch.

Enhanced interoperabilityBenefits of standardisation
17 Jul 20263 min read
Data & AI

Small language models are revolutionising enterprise AI economics

Small models are shifting enterprise AI economics, cheap enough to run per task and capable enough for the narrow jobs that make up most workloads.

Cost-effective AI solutionsImpact of small language models
17 Jul 20263 min read
Data Architecture

The lakehouse triumphs in the data-platform landscape

The lakehouse settled the warehouse-versus-lake debate by taking the useful half of each: open storage with warehouse-grade transactional guarantees.

Unified data managementCore advantage of lakehouse
17 Jul 20263 min read
Data Regulation

The EU AI Act: An Operational Burden for Data Teams

The EU AI Act is an operational problem before it is a legal one, bringing classification, documentation and monitoring that data teams run daily.

Compliance requires proactive operational changesImpact on data management practices
17 Jul 20263 min read
Governance

Data governance accelerates AI innovation, not stifles it

Governance earned its reputation as a brake. Done well it is the opposite: the shortest path to AI you can ship, defend to a regulator and trust.

Trust is the new currencyImportance of data governance in AI
17 Jul 20263 min read
Semantic Layer

The semantic layer is essential AI infrastructure today

Once language models start querying your data, metric definitions stop being a BI convenience and become the layer that keeps AI answers correct.

The backbone of AI-driven insightsRole of semantic layers in AI
17 Jul 20263 min read
AI

Agentic AI needs data governance to avoid pilot failures

Enterprise AI pilots rarely fail on the model. They fail on ungoverned data and missing evaluations, which are exactly what governance supplies.

Governance is key to successImportance of data governance
17 Jul 20263 min read
Data Architecture

Zero-Copy Sharing Transforms Data Management Practices

Open table formats let teams share governed data in place rather than copying it, ending the sprawl of duplicates that nobody can reconcile later.

Data accessibility redefinedThe evolution of data sharing
17 Jul 20263 min read

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