Universal semantic layers: critical infrastructure or the next data fabric?

We’re finding out that context is everything when it comes to successful enterprise AI deployments. Removing ambiguity, and working around agreed definitions and vocabularies are essential as agentic AI starts to become more autonomous. At their recent data and analytics summit, Gartner predicted that by 2030, USLs will be treated as critical infrastructure alongside data platforms and cybersecurity, and that 44% of data and analytics leaders have already implemented semantic layers, with a furt