Announcing Microsoft Fabric IQ: The Semantic Intelligence Platform. Microsoft Fabric IQ is the new semantic intelligence layer that elevates Fabric from a unified data platform to a unified intelligence platform. It turns your unified data estate, already consolidated in OneLake, into a live, structured, connected model of how your business operates. It bridges the gap between where your data lives and how your teams and AI reason, decide, and act. Microsoft announces Fabric IQ as the system that combines an ontology model, semantic models, and AI agents to convert business data into real-time decision-making. According to Microsoft, organizations are drowning in data without understanding the semantics. For example, an airline does not think in terms of tables and schedules, but in terms of flights, passengers, and delays. However, that meaning lives in people’s minds, and teams use their own definitions and reports. AI systems can read data but lack business context to make reliable decisions.

Fabric IQ solves this with a high-level ontology model that captures what is important, how things are related, and what actions are possible. The ontology links to live data in OneLake via various engines for analytics, real-time, time series, and geographic data. The system builds on existing Power BI models, with more than 20 million semantic models forming the starting point. The company promises that organizations can start their ontology from these models with just a few clicks. Fabric databases offer serverless, autonomous architecture, enterprise-grade security, and native AI integration, including support for vector data and RAG patterns, making it the launchpad for modern, data-driven innovation. Developers can query live operational data from SQL Database or Cosmos DB without complex ETL or duplicated pipelines, while OneLake keeps the data analytics-ready and in sync for a consistent, real-time view across workloads,” stated Microsoft team member Shireesh Thota.