How Agentic AI and Semantic Layers Are Transforming Enterprise Analytics

Data-Driven Podcast

Data-Driven Podcast
How Agentic AI and Semantic Layers Are Transforming Enterprise Analytics
Aug 12, 2025
AtScale

In this episode of the Data-Driven Podcast, AtScale CTO and Co-founder Dave Mariani is joined by Rich Williams, SVP of Partnerships and Strategy at Hexaware, and Prashant Dahalkar, VP of the Cloud Data Practice. They dive into the future of analytics through the lens of agentic AI, semantic layers, and enterprise AI governance.

Fresh from attending Snowflake and Databricks Summits, the trio unpacks the momentum behind AI agents, the rise of semantic standards, and how organizations can accelerate business outcomes with governed data architectures. Rich offers insight into how modern business users can finally talk to their data. At the same time, Prashant highlights the role of modular agents, MDM, and self-healing data tools in Hexaware’s data strategy.

Whether you’re modernizing legacy stacks or scaling data literacy across your organization, this conversation sheds light on how enterprises can move from experimentation to enterprise-grade AI adoption without sacrificing trust or governance.

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