Microsoft AI Tour · The enterprise AI paradox

More capable models ≠ More reliable enterprise answers

The missing variable is governed business knowledge.

One alert · one planner question

Why was SITE-014 flagged for replenishment?

A clinical supply planner is validating a monitored inventory alert.

Live factsSite, inventory status, quantity, trial phase.

Shared meaningHow Site, Inventory, clinical trial, and Compound connect.

Approved actionWhat a supply planner should replenish first.

ProofA test that rejects an unsupported answer.

The enterprise AI paradox

The model gets smarter. The answer is still missing.

studiesstudyId · studyName · studyPhase

sitessiteId · siteName

inventoryinventory_id · quantity · inventory_status

The missing path

Here, Study means the clinical trial protocol. A schema cannot explain how it reaches site inventory, which compound it uses, or which response is approved.

Study

has site

Site

Model the answer path

Study (clinical trial) → Site → Inventory.

Study

has site

Site

stores

Inventory

Study

uses

Compound

Bindings
OneLake · Eventhouse · semantic models

Where the industry is goingFrom applications that store business data to agents that act on governed business knowledge.

The question now has a governed path through live business data.

Entity typesThe things the business recognizes.

Properties + IDsFacts and stable identity.

RelationshipsTyped paths through the domain.

BindingsMeaning grounded in governed data.

One package · Output 1 of 4

A lesson people can actually use.

Lesson 2

Responding to site inventory risk

Explore · practice · decide

Practice

SITE-014 has 24 units and is below its reorder point.

Trace the site to its Inventory, Study, and Compound. Why was the alert raised?

Below reorder point · validate replenishment

Phase III alone · replenish

Correct. Inventory status raises the alert; phase only affects priority.

One package · Outputs 2–4

The lesson travels with its source of truth.

clinical-supply-chain.rdfRDF/XML · OWL

<owl:Class rdf:about="#Study">
  <rdfs:label>Study</rdfs:label>
</owl:Class>

<owl:ObjectProperty
    rdf:about="#hasSite">
  <rdfs:domain
    rdf:resource="#Study"/>
  <rdfs:range
    rdf:resource="#Site"/>
</owl:ObjectProperty>

Illustrative operating procedure

Draft
v0.1

Replenish at-risk site inventory

TriggerA site has inventory_status = below_reorder_point.

PriorityAfter the trigger, Phase III changes queue priority.

ActionCreate a replenishment request for the site and compound.

Demo artifact · synthetic scenario

CQ-004 · Supply riskExpected: 4 / 4

Competency question

Why was SITE-014 flagged for replenishment?

✓

Cites below_reorder_point

✓

Cites SITE-014 and 24 units

✓

Identifies CMP-204

✓

Uses the draft demo procedure

illustrative acceptance contract

Prepared walkthrough · 01

The same ontology, interactive.

DesignDeployAskVerify

Author in Ontology Playground:

Study

hasSite

Site

Export: clinical-supply-chain.rdf

Player: embed the interactive ontology directly

School: lesson + live graph + quiz + presentation mode

Clinical Supply Chain · Live Player

Deployment path · 02

Deploy that model to Fabric.

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fabio · zshdemo workspace

$ cp .env.example .env

$ ./scripts/deploy.sh

expected entities: 13
expected relationships: 16
expected bindings: 13

Fabio parses the Playground export into Fabric definitions.

Classes → entity types

Data properties → fields

Object properties → relationships

Concept screen · 03

Ask the data agent.

DesignDeployAskVerify

CS

Clinical Supply AgentIllustrative Fabric data-agent experience

Concept

Planner

Why was SITE-014 flagged for replenishment?

Inventory is below its reorder point SITE-014 has 24 units of CMP-204 for Phase III clinical trial STUDY-031. Validate the evidence, then create a replenishment request for the site and compound.

Study → Site → InventoryDraft procedure

Acceptance contract · 04

Now prove the answer is acceptable.

DesignDeployAskVerify

CQ-004 · Competency evaluation

Supply-risk answer contract

The answer is accepted only when every grounded business assertion passes.

4/4Expected assertions
Concept only

target: clinical-supply-agent / SITE-014EXPECTED RESULT

✓Traverses Study → Site → Inventorygrounded_path

✓Cites below-reorder-point status as the alert triggerrisk_signal

✓Cites SITE-014, 24 units, and CMP-204evidence

✓Uses the reviewed replenishment procedureapproved_action

Retain what the team learned

A correction becomes a regression test.

Define
meaning

Teach people
and agents

Run on
governed data

Evaluate
the answer

Review a
correction

Approved correctionPhase III changes priority, but low inventory establishes supply risk. Study phase alone does not imply a shortage.

One flow, clear ownership

Each layer has one job.

OKF in GitConcepts, lessons, references, tests, approved corrections

PlaygroundDesigner, embedded Player, School lesson, presentation

FabioRDF-to-Fabric ontology deployment

Fabric IQBound entities, relationships, graph, live context

Foundry IQIndexed documents and cited knowledge retrieval

Agent runtimeOrchestration for the current task

EvaluationCompetency checks over every answer

Private tracesPrompts, tool calls, feedback, run evidence

Close

Change the model.
Keep the knowledge.