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Government has invested heavily in moving data - shared networks, APIs, cloud platforms, data warehouses. And yet reports still don't line up. Numbers vary. Definitions drift. The gap isn't infrastructure. It's meaning.
When one department defines a "project" differently than another, or "active" means something different across systems, connecting data can amplify confusion instead of resolving it. The fix isn't forcing everyone onto the same platform. It's giving every system a shared language.
That's what a semantic layer does - not by moving or copying data, but by making sure the same words mean the same thing everywhere. Definitions travel with the data. Reports align. And when AI enters the picture, models actually have consistent context to work from.
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