Three significant themes are around us in the enterprise data & analytics industry:
- After the internal OpenAI data agent was shared, there has been an explosion of interest in how to build agents to leverage enterprise data and context. Claude Plug-ins/Skills have further accelerated the space. The OpenAI article illustrates that building a production-ready stack that works for self-service even in a narrow modern environment is not easy. Think about a realistic Fortune 1000 enterprise that has 10X the scale and diversity across platforms, tools, and users. The complexity and scaling challenges are real.
- Since Ashu Garg and Jaya Gupta proposed context graphs, we now have a vocabulary to describe the living and breathing process context behind outcomes. As an example, “Talking to business data” for insights is an unsolved problem today because we lack the institutional knowledge of repeatable context graphs that enable provable and scalable accuracy. No enterprise I have met has solved this problem at scale.
- Meanwhile data teams are looking for the right post modern-data-stack architecture to support agent-driven analytics in the enterprise. Every enterprise is scoping home-grown agentic platforms or trying to expand platform-specific offerings. Quick solutions are not scalable in the long run. There are no good choices. The new architecture needs to be open, extensible and future proof in a space that changes weekly.
That’s why I am excited about Kevin Petrie’s paper describing a new agentic analytics fabric architecture. The new stack scales the problem described by the OpenAI data agent article across any enterprise platform or tooling or business domain. Your favorite agent should be able to point to this stack (its MCP server) and build scalable and accurate insights with:
- Federated and efficient live access to all your data regardless of the platform
- Immediate and curated access to the relevant context across distributed contextual sources
- Personalized agent engineering with intent and memory across each domain
- Fine-grained access control that ensures governance from the user-level all the way to the data
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