Define business concepts with Pages (Beta)

BetaAug 12, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

You can now use Pages to give business terms, acronyms, and KPIs a single governed definition. Part of Unity Catalog semantics , Pages form the human-modeled layer of the Genie Ontology that Genie One draws on to ground its answers. See Pages .

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