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2026-02-19 • Alex Merced

What Is a Semantic Layer? A Complete Guide

Ask three teams in your company how they calculate "revenue" and you'll get three answers. Sales counts bookings. Financ...

2026-02-19 • Alex Merced

How to Build a Semantic Layer: A Step-by-Step Guide

Most teams start building a semantic layer the wrong way: they open their BI tool, create a few calculated fields, and c...

2026-02-19 • Alex Merced

Semantic Layer vs. Metrics Layer: What's the Difference?

Both terms appear in every modern data architecture diagram. They're used interchangeably in conference talks, Slack thr...

2026-02-19 • Alex Merced

Semantic Layer vs. Data Catalog: Complementary, Not Competing

"We already have a data catalog, so we don't need a semantic layer." This is one of the most common misconceptions in mo...

2026-02-19 • Alex Merced

Why Your AI Initiatives Fail Without a Semantic Layer

Your team builds an AI agent. It connects to your data warehouse. A product manager types "What was revenue last quarter...

2026-02-19 • Alex Merced

The Role of the Semantic Layer in Data Governance

Most organizations have a data governance policy. It lives in a Confluence page. It defines who owns what data, what ter...

2026-02-19 • Alex Merced

Data Virtualization and the Semantic Layer: Query Without Copying

Every data pipeline you build to move data from one system to another costs you three things: time to build it, money to...

2026-02-19 • Alex Merced

Headless BI: How a Universal Semantic Layer Replaces Tool-Specific Models

Your organization uses Tableau for executive dashboards, Power BI for operational reports, and Python notebooks for data...

2026-02-19 • Alex Merced

How a Self-Documenting Semantic Layer Reduces Data Team Toil

Every data team knows documentation is important. And almost every data team has a backlog of undocumented tables, unlab...

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