What is a Snowflake semantic layer? +
A Snowflake semantic layer defines trusted business meaning for metrics, dimensions, entities, and relationships used by analytics and AI. Semantiqa creates and operates this governed semantic layer inside Snowflake so teams and AI systems use approved definitions.
How does Semantiqa create Snowflake semantic models from metadata? +
Semantiqa analyzes Snowflake metadata, query history, documents, and governance context to create reusable semantic models and a semantic registry. Teams can review, enrich, validate, and publish those models before they are used by chat, dashboards, and analytics workflows.
Can Semantiqa manage Snowflake Semantic Model YAML files? +
Yes. Semantiqa supports Snowflake Semantic Model YAML lifecycle workflows, including upload, preview, conflict review, validation, version control, and publish or promotion across environments.
How does Semantiqa detect schema drift in Snowflake semantic models? +
Semantiqa refreshes registry metadata from Snowflake and compares incoming structural changes against governed semantic definitions. When schema drift or conflicting metadata is found, it routes the change through human-in-the-loop review before publishing.
How does Semantiqa support governed natural language analytics on Snowflake? +
Semantiqa gives business users an enterprise data chatbot and AI dashboard experience backed by approved metrics, relationships, Snowflake access controls, and semantic context. Answers are grounded in governed definitions rather than raw table guesses.
Does data leave Snowflake when using Semantiqa? +
No. Semantiqa is delivered as a Snowflake Native App and runs inside your Snowflake environment. Data remains in your account under your existing governance, RBAC, masking, and security policies.
Can Semantiqa promote semantic models between development, test, and production? +
Yes. Semantiqa supports controlled promotion of governed semantic models across development, test, and production environments. Teams can version and publish a registry in one environment, export it, and import it into the next environment without rebuilding the semantic model.
Before promotion, changes can be reviewed, validated, and approved, helping maintain consistent semantic definitions across environments while reducing configuration drift.
How does human-in-the-loop review work? +
Semantiqa combines autonomous semantic creation with human review at the points where business judgment is required. When new metadata, imported semantic models, governance definitions, or schema changes introduce conflicting information, Semantiqa identifies the conflict instead of automatically overwriting an approved definition.
Authorized users can review the proposed changes, compare definitions, edit or enrich metrics and business terms, resolve conflicts, and validate the resulting semantic behavior. Once approved, the updated version can be published and promoted through development, test, and production under controlled permissions.
This allows Semantiqa to automate semantic engineering at scale while keeping people responsible for business meaning and production approval.
What are Semantiqa's six semantic layers? +
Semantiqa coordinates six complementary layers of semantic intelligence:
- Business Entities and Dimensions defines the business objects, descriptive attributes, hierarchies, and dimensions through which enterprise data is understood.
- Metrics and Business Logic defines governed measures, calculations, aggregations, filters, and business rules so users and AI systems calculate results consistently.
- Relationships and Cross-Domain Context connects tables, entities, schemas, and business domains so questions can be answered across organizational and data boundaries.
- Ontology and Business Meaning organizes business concepts, terminology, classifications, and relationships into a connected representation of enterprise meaning.
- Intent and Runtime Context interprets each request and selects the metrics, relationships, policies, domains, and other governed context relevant to that question.
- Governance and SemanticOps manages enrichment, validation, conflict resolution, access control, versioning, publishing, promotion, audit history, and ongoing semantic change.
Together, these layers provide more than a static semantic model. They create a governed semantic-intelligence system that can support analytics, AI applications, and cross-domain enterprise questions.
How can Semantiqa semantic intelligence be consumed? +
Semantiqa allows the same governed semantic intelligence to be reused across analytics, AI, and application experiences. Depending on the integrations enabled in the customer environment, it can be consumed through:
- Semantiqa Chat, for governed natural-language questions and answers
- Dashboards and self-service analytics, using approved metrics and relationships
- Snowflake Cortex and Cortex Agents, through Snowflake-native semantic views and governed business context
- Snowflake CoWork, to support enterprise analysis using trusted semantic definitions
- MCP clients, through Semantiqa's MCP server and exposed semantic tools
- APIs, for custom applications, copilots, and workflow integrations
- External AI agents, which can retrieve governed semantic context rather than querying raw schemas directly
- BI tools, which can use or contribute definitions while remaining aligned with the governed semantic registry
Can Semantiqa generate dashboards from natural language prompts? +
Yes. Semantiqa connects governed semantic definitions to AI data analytics, enterprise data chatbot workflows, and AI dashboard builder experiences so answers and dashboards share the same business logic.