Microsoft announced the preview release of Microsoft Fabric IQ, a new semantic intelligence layer that enhances Microsoft Fabric, elevating it from a unified data platform to a unified intelligence platform.
Fabric IQ provides a governed, self-service knowledge graph that links business entities, relationships, and operational logic across all enterprise data. It unifies disparate data types – including analytical data, real-time streams, and semantic models – under a coherent semantic framework, grounded in how the organization actually works.
This new layer is built on Power BI’s semantic-modeling technology and enables customers to define business entities, hierarchies, metrics, and rules. Through these ontologies, customers can now create Operations Agents: AI agents that continuously monitor real-time data, identify patterns, and take action — all based on business context.
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Fabric IQ supports consistent definitions of business concepts across tools (such as Power BI, notebooks, and agents), enabling faster onboarding, trust, and more reusable semantics. With its context-aware framework, the feature helps prevent semantic drift and improves data quality.
Microsoft views Fabric IQ as a foundational component for next-generation enterprise AI: agents can operate with real business meaning, enabling more reliable, business-grounded automation.