Microsoft’s Work IQ Writes a Business Glossary for Your Agents. Decide Whose Definitions Win

Microsoft documented Business Applications in Work IQ on 25 September 2026, with a preview from 30 September. Each Dataverse environment gets a generated semantic model, a glossary and natural-language business skills that agents follow. What that means for the enterprise information map, and four decisions architects should make during the preview.

In this analysis

• What Microsoft shipped, and in what state
• The three artefacts, in architecture terms
• Where it collides with the enterprise information map
• Four decisions to make during the preview
• What this does and does not change

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Microsoft Work IQ Semantic Model and Business Skills: What Enterprise Architects Should Govern — Vantograph