Data leaders are under pressure to deliver trusted, business-ready data for analytics and AI—fast. The semantic layer promises a consistent, governed way to give business users self-service access to the data they need. But without the right delivery foundation, self-service can stall, AI models can suffer, and governance can erode.
This GigaOm CxO Decision Brief shows how CData empowers teams to:
Enable self-service analytics by giving business users governed, real-time access without engineering bottlenecks
Accelerate AI readiness with consistent definitions, fresh data, and integrated governance controls
Adapt to any environment—cloud, SaaS, or on-prem—without replatforming or disrupting existing workflows
By combining virtualization, replication, transformation, and policy enforcement in one platform, CData ensures your semantic layer delivers both freedom for business users and confidence for data leaders.
" As organizations adopt semantic layers to simplify access and align data across domains, the underlying architecture becomes a strategic lever, not just a technical one. Modernizing the data delivery foundation that supports semantic alignment enables more than speed—it enables trust, adaptability, and leverage across critical initiatives like AI, regulatory compliance, and business self-service".
— Darrel Kent, Field CTO at GigaOm
Read the full brief to see how to operationalize a semantic strategy that drives self-service, scales with AI demands, and preserves governance from day one.
