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Right now, in most companies, there is a crisis of Business Intelligence dashboards. For good reasons, BI practitioners use the dashboard as way to deliver data and analytics to pretty much everyone.

Disparate BI, analytics, and data science tools result in discrepancies in data interpretation, business logic, and definitions among user groups. A universal semantic layer resolves those ...

Semantic reasoning tools for databases aim to close that gap. They introduce an abstraction layer that understands business ...