Qlik Joins Snowflake & Industry Leaders to Support Data and AI Interoperability Across the Ecosystem Through the Open Semantic Interchange

Qlik^®, announced it is joining the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI), an open source initiative that creates a universal specification for companies to standardize their fragmented data definitions with an open, vendor-neutral semantic model specification. OSI aims to enhance interoperability across various tools and platforms, offering enterprises a vendor-neutral specification designed to provide consistent metrics and definitions across dashboards, notebooks, and machine learning models.

OSI is an open source initiative created by Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, in partnership with leading ecosystem partners across multiple domains and industries including business intelligence (BI), data governance, data engineering, AI, financial services, and manufacturing. Its goal is to create a common, vendor-agnostic specification that defines semantic metadata in a standard, open format. By facilitating seamless semantic metadata exchange, the initiative will accelerate the adoption of AI and BI tools to streamline operations and reduce complexity. This in turn allows organizations to unify their data definitions, leading to more comprehensive and accurate data analysis and data product sharing to fuel AI innovation.

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“By joining the Open Semantic Interchange, Qlik is committed to the creation of a universal standard that simplifies data operations and accelerates innovation for the broader ecosystem,” said Sam Pierson, Chief Technology Officer, Qlik. “Our participation ensures that our customers can apply consistent, governed metrics and business definitions across the tools they use, so analytics, AI, and data products speak the same language across the data ecosystem.”

As a member of OSI, Qlik is helping to build a transparent and community-driven standard for semantic model sharing, ensuring that business metrics and definitions remain consistent and interoperable.

“Unlocking the full potential of data and AI requires a common foundation, and the Open Semantic Interchange is the critical step in building that bedrock,” said Josh Klahr, Director of Analytics Product Management at Snowflake. “Our collaboration with partners like Qlik establishes a unified, vendor-neutral standard for semantic data, ensuring clarity and consistency across the entire ecosystem. This initiative is essential for simplifying data operations, fostering innovation, and preparing organizations to build the next generation of AI applications.”

OSI is poised to revolutionize interoperability within the data and AI ecosystem by providing a transparent, community-driven standard. This collaborative effort simplifies data operations, unlocks new possibilities for innovation, and gives organizations the flexibility and efficiency they need to build a future-ready data infrastructure.

“As enterprises expand the number of analytics and AI tools in use, inconsistent definitions and metric drift create real operational and governance friction,” said Stewart Bond, Vice President of Data Intelligence and Integration Software, IDC. “Industry initiatives like the Open Semantic Interchange are an important step toward making semantic metadata more portable across the ecosystem. Vendors with a history of vendor-neutral architectures, including Qlik, are well positioned to support customers who need consistent business meaning across heterogeneous environments.”