Vendor neutrality just became a strategic call

Something else is shifting at the platform level. Every major cloud vendor now ships some version of governance, metric definitions, or AI context natively. That’s genuine progress, and enterprises should expect it.

Almost no enterprise lives inside one vendor’s perimeter though. Most run multiple clouds, a stack of legacy applications, SaaS tools, several BI platforms, and AI services from more than one provider. Each platform optimizes for its own world.

Business definitions must be able to travel across all of them. If every platform keeps its own version of what things mean, organizations rebuild the same fragmentation, only now it sits further inside AI workflows, where it’s harder to catch.