We're excited to share that Cube has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the February 2026 Gartner Market Guide for Agentic Analytics.
The semantic layer isn't optional
One of Gartner's key findings from the report: "Semantic and policy alignment is foundational for effective agentic analytics. Ontologies, semantic layers and knowledge graphs provide the essential context that allows agents to generate relevant and reliable insights.”
Gartner predicts, “by 2028, 60% of agentic analytics projects relying solely on MCP will fail due to the lack of a consistent semantic layer.”
This is the thesis Cube has been building toward. Every AI agent in our platform operates through a universal semantic layer: ensuring consistent business logic, hallucination-free SQL generation, and governed outputs across dashboards, conversational analytics, and embedded experiences. The semantic layer isn't an add-on. It's the reason the agents work.
What's happening in the market
Established BI vendors are retrofitting AI onto legacy architectures. A new class of purpose-built platforms is emerging. And buyers are starting to ask harder questions about accuracy, governance, and what happens when agents scale.
Cube's seven-year foundation in semantic layer technology was built for exactly this moment.
What's next
We're just getting started. We believe this recognition reinforces our conviction that agentic analytics are done right: governed, accurate, and grounded in consistent business logic. This is how data teams scale without chaos.
Gartner, Market Guide for Agentic Analytics, Deepak Seth, Georgia O'Callaghan, Fay Fei, Jeroen Cornelissen, 9 February 2026. GARTNER is a trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.