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Microsoft Backs Apache Ossie Effort to Standardize Enterprise Metrics for AI Tools

October 1, 2026 at 17:01 EDT

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Microsoft is publicly backing Apache Ossie, a vendor-neutral effort to standardize semantic metadata so AI agents and business-intelligence tools can understand enterprise data with consistent definitions. The move brings Microsoft engineers and Power BI conversion work into an initiative already supported by Snowflake and a broad data ecosystem, signaling a more open posture around the semantic layer that AI systems increasingly rely on.

Sep. 2026 · Microsoft, Snowflake, Apache Ossie

A shared language for enterprise AI data

Microsoft is backing Apache Ossie so Power BI, Fabric, Snowflake and other tools can reuse business metrics instead of redefining them in every platform.

400+

GitHub stars over six months

participating organizations

70+

community discussions

Community activity is broadening

organizations

70+

discussions

Each block represents about 10 counted items, showing the relative scale of organization participation and design debate.

How the interchange works

Define

Metrics and dimensions in one semantic model

→

Convert

Map to Power BI, Fabric and Snowflake formats

Reuse

Give agents and BI tools the same business meaning

Early, useful, not finished

Upside

Teams can preserve metric logic and reduce duplicate models across analytic clients.

Constraint

Power BI file ingestion has a 250 MB limit, and some measure types remain unsupported.

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