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Daily Archives: 23 April, 2026

A clean split image.
Left side: A simple chat interface User typing: “most profitable customers”. Clean, minimal, almost Apple-like UI. Right side: A chaotic backend: tangled database tables arrows between systems labels like CRM, ERP, SAP KNA1, marketing, billing maybe some “?” or broken mappings.

From Tokens to Truth: LLMs Need a Semantic Layer 

Artificial Intelligence, Data Management and AIBy Mat Newcomb23 April, 2026

Enterprises trying to use large language models (LLMs) to access their corporate data are hitting a brick wall. It is easy for a vendor to demo a natural language interface that allows users to write prompts that access corporate data. In the demo, a user types in something like: “show me my most profitable customers”…

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