With Material IQ, Microsoft is including new semantic intelligence capabilities to its unified information and analytics platform, Material, that it says will assist enterprises keep a standard information mannequin and automate operational choices.
We’ll be listening to much more about “IQ” from Microsoft, which has additionally simply launched Work IQ, the semantic intelligence layer for Microsoft 365, and Foundry IQ, a managed data system for grounding AI brokers through a number of data repositories, that along with Material IQ kind what Microsoft calls a “shared intelligence layer” for the enterprise.
Material IQ will supply 5 built-in capabilities, Microsoft mentioned: the power to create an ontology or shared mannequin of enterprise entities, relationships, guidelines, and targets; a semantic mannequin extending enterprise intelligence definitions past analytics to AI and operations; a local graph engine to allow multi-hop reasoning with information; digital analysts known as information brokers that may reply enterprise questions; and autonomous operations brokers that may cause, study, and act in actual time.
