Snowflake adds Business Ontology and Cortex AI Gateway governance for enterprise agents
shashib · x · 2026-11-05
At its Expedition 2026 event, Snowflake expanded its agentic AI portfolio with a new Business Ontology and broader governance controls in Cortex AI Gateway.
- Business Ontology (part of Snowflake Horizon Context) ties approved business terms, relationships and ownership to the semantic views and tables that implement them, aiming to give agents consistent definitions and more traceable answers
- Cortex AI Gateway adds controls over what agents can access, invoke and spend, linking business context definition with tool-use, security and spend governance
- Business Ontology is only announced for public preview "coming soon," not generally available; the article notes its benefits remain vendor claims pending production evidence
The sharer's take: the hardest part of enterprise AI today isn't intelligence — it's knowing what business data actually means before an agent acts. The direction is right; now Snowflake must prove it in production.
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