Select Star Joins Snowflake and Other Industry Leaders to Launch Open Semantic Interchange: Turn BI Dashboards into AI-Ready Semantic Models

Snowflake's Open Semantic Interchange (OSI) initiative, supported by partners like Select Star, aims to establish a universal, vendor-neutral semantic model specification to enhance interoperability across data tools and platforms. This initiative seeks to centralize business logic through a semantic model, ensuring consistent metrics, definitions, and end-to-end lineage across business intelligence (BI) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications. By standardizing semantic metadata and making it portable, OSI addresses issues such as fragmented data definitions and conflicting metrics, reducing the need for redundant work and facilitating faster audits and incident triage. Select Star, a metadata context platform, plays a key role by reverse engineering BI dashboards and SQL to generate governed semantic models quickly, aiding organizations like Faire and Datasembly in achieving significant cost reductions and efficiency improvements. The OSI initiative represents a collaborative effort to create a standardized approach that reduces tool-specific integrations, enabling a more open and connected data ecosystem.