Microsoft Backs Apache Ossie to Standardize Business Metrics Across Power BI, Fabric and Snowflake

Microsoft has backed Apache Ossie, the incubating vendor-neutral standard for semantic metadata, in a move aimed at making business metrics portable across Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake and other AI and BI systems. Snowflake said Microsoft engineers have joined the community and contributed an initial Power BI Ossie converter, while Microsoft said it is working with Snowflake and the broader industry so customers can define semantic context once and reuse it across ecosystems without duplicating data or business logic.