- Snowflake and Salesforce launch the open semantic interchange
- Salesforce compares the initiative to the Rosetta stone of commercial data
- AI agents will use more corporate software than humans by 2030
In recognition of the rise of agenic AI and the lag of dashboards and traditional reports, Salesforce and Snowflake have joined forces with Blackrock, DBT Labs and Relevai to change things for the best with regard to collaboration.
Together, the group launches Open Semantic Interchange (OSI), which Snowflake describes as a neutral frame of supplier which allows different platforms to speak to each other in the same language.
The launch of the OSI occurs while companies are fighting with the locking of suppliers, who create silos and limit the potential of AI tools.
The open semantic exchanger attacks the seller’s locking
“With the Open Semantic Interchange Initiative, we are proud to direct the charge alongside our partners to resolve a fundamental challenge for AI – the absence of a common semantic standard,” commented the executive vice president Christian Kleinerman.
The key objectives of the initiative are to improve interoperability, reduce complexity and stimulate the adoption of Di “by normalizing how semantics is defined and exchanged”.
It is also a vision initiative in the future in more than one title – Salesforce Cité Accenture Research predicting that AI agents will be the main users of business software by 2030, before humans.
“These new intelligent workers are as effective as the data they can access and understand,” said Southard Jones, product manager.
To support the exchange of bidirectional metadata, OSI standardizes data measures, dimensions, hierarchies and relationships.
Snowflake highlighted the five basic principles of OSI: normalization (common language and structure); interoperability (easy exchange between tools); extensibility (adaptable to evolutionary needs); Open Source (collaborative development); and models specific to the domain (to combine data from various sources).
Jones compared the semantic exchange open to Rosetta stone for commercial data: “By co-managing the semantic exchanger open with Snowflake and our partners, we build the foundations of all the needs of the agent and the BI application: a common semantic framework which preserves the meaning on platforms.”
