Fabric IQ Ontology item for SaaS companies

[x_mark_x]

Hello there Fabricators!

I am starting to experiment with the Ontology item which sounds great on paper but I hit obsticles when it comes to defining the entities.

The ontology demo that was presented at Microsoft Ignite was great, but as a data analyst in an SaaS company, i have a hard time to define our entities. In the demo example the business was aviation and airport related and the definition of the entities was quite straightforward, but for an SaaS company that sells licenses to customers with a valid from and valid to date the entity modeling is not so straightforward to me (not to mention that we have several types of licenses to several editions of our product and the customer can add or remove licenses at will...).

Is there anyone out there who is currently trying to create the ontology for a license based SaaS company? If yes, it would be great to hear your thoughts, strategies and things you learned so far that can help me to create an ontology that can support a Data Agent and deliver trustworthy and consistent answers to the users.

Please feel free to ask questions or add your two-cents to the topic 🙂

[svelde]

Hello @x_mark_x 

Welcome to this community-supported Fabric forum.

I'm also testing Ontology with another standardized ontology, RealEstateCore (REC) where several entities can be derived from a base entity.

What we need for managing this kind of 'entity inheritance' is something that the underlying Fabric Graph database could offer, as we look at the Graph Query Language: (abstract) base entities (called nodes in GQL).

Unfortunately, the Fabric UI does not support this at this moment for either Fabric Graph or Fabric Ontology.

This feature is not yet wished for in the Ideas section. Please create an idea and leave a link here so others with the same wish can vote for it.

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