Best Of 2025: Open Semantic Interchange Specification Launch Promises To Improve Interoperability
Techstrong.IT, December 11,2025
Snowflake today in collaboration with Salesforce, BlackRock, dbt Labs, and RelationalAI launched an open source initiative that promises to make it simpler for semantic models to interoperate.
Josh Klahr, head of data warehousing for Snowflake, said the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI) initiative will make it simpler to both share semantic models across multiple applications and migrate to another application environment without losing previous investments made in building their semantic models.
Semantic models provide the conceptual framework that defines the meaning, relationships, and context of concepts within a specific business domain. That capability enables organizations to better understand the data they collect, facilitate more consistent analysis and enable integration across different systems. The overall goal is to eliminate the need to rebuild a semantic model for every application deployed, said Klahr.