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What is a Semantic Layer? Understanding the OSI
, Director, Product Management, Salesforce
, Software Engineering Principal Architect, Salesforce
Role: IT
Product: Tableau
Tableau Product: Tableau Cloud, Tableau Next, Tableau Server
Session Level: Beginner
Session Type: Theater
- Tuesday, May 52:00 PM - 2:20 PM PDT(9:00 PM - 9:20 PM GMT)Theater 1 | Data Village, Ground LevelFIRST COME FIRST SEATED
- Wednesday, May 610:40 AM - 11:00 AM PDT(5:40 PM - 6:00 PM GMT)Theater 4 | Data Village, Ground LevelFIRST COME FIRST SEATED
Session Summary: The session highlighted the concept of semantic layers and introduced the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI), an open-source initiative launched in 2020 to create a unified semantic layer for business data. OSI enables a single source of truth by eliminating metric inconsistencies across various AI and BI tools, thereby reducing errors and inefficiencies. Tableau Semantics, integrated within the Salesforce ecosystem, supports cross-platform semantic modeling and allows seamless connections to third-party tools like Snowflake and DBT, ensuring vendor-neutral compatibility. Attendees were encouraged to explore the OSI specification, now live on GitHub, and contribute by providing feedback or submitting pull requests to improve the initiative further.
Key Takeaways:
• The Open Semantic Interchange (OSI) is an Apache-licensed open-source initiative designed to unify semantic layers across platforms, minimizing metric inconsistencies and ensuring accurate AI and BI insights.
• Tableau Semantics supports interoperability by enabling connections to third-party tools like Snowflake and DBT while maintaining compatibility with Salesforce's integrated data ecosystem, including Data Cloud and Slack.
• Version 0.1 of the OSI specification is now live on GitHub, providing a hub-and-spoke architecture for semantic model translation and inviting community contributions to enhance its capabilities.
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