Subj : Salesforce, Snowflake and other tech giants team up to solve one
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Wed Sep 24 2025 10:30:08

Salesforce, Snowflake and other tech giants team up to solve one of the 
biggest business data problems today

Date:
Wed, 24 Sep 2025 09:18:27 +0000

Description:
Tech giants team up together to improve agentic AIs access to data.

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e and Salesforce launch the Open Semantic Interchange Salesforce likens the 
initiative to the Rosetta Stone of business data AI agents will use more 
enterprise software than humans by 2030 

In recognition of the rise of agentic AI and the shift away from traditional 
dashboards and reports, Salesforce and Snowflake have teamed up with 
BlackRock, dbt Labs and RelationalAI to change things for the better when it 
comes to collaboration. 

Together, the group is launching Open Semantic Interchange (OSI), which 
Snowflake describes as a vendor-neutral framework that allows different 
platforms to talk to one another in the same language. 

The launch of OSI comes as companies struggle with vendor lock-ins, which 
create silos and limit the potential of AI tools . The Open Semantic 
Interchange tackles vendor lock-in 

With the Open Semantic Interchange initiative, we are proud to be leading the 
charge alongside our partners to solve a foundational challenge for AI  the 
lack of a common semantic standard, Snowflake EVP of Product Christian 
Kleinerman commented. 

The initiatives key goals are to improve interoperability, reduce complexity 
and boost AI adoption by standardizing how semantics are defined and 
exchanged. 

Its also a futureproofing initiative in more ways than one  Salesforce cited 
Accenture research predicting AI agents will be the primary users of 
enterprise software by 2030, ahead of humans. 

These new intelligent workers are only as effective as the data they can 
access and understand, Tableau Chief Product Officer Southard Jones 
explained. 

To support bi-directional metadata exchange, the OSI standardizes data 
metrics, dimensions, hierarchies and relationships. 

Snowflake highlighted the five core principles of OSI: standardization 
(common language and structure); interoperability (easy exchange between 
tools); extensibility (adaptable to evolving needs); open source 
(collaborative development); and domain-specific models (to combine data from 
various sources). 

Jones likened the Open Semantic Interchange to the Rosetta Stone for business 
data: By co-leading the Open Semantic Interchange with Snowflake and our 
partners, were building the foundation every AI agent and BI application 
needs: a common semantic framework that preserves meaning across platforms. 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/salesforce-snowflake-and-other-tech-giants-team-
up-to-solve-one-of-the-biggest-business-data-problems-today


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