Over the years at Honeydew, we’ve built our foundation on one simple belief: if you want people to trust data – whether from dashboards, AI agents, or BI tools – your semantics have to be consistent, understandable, and shared. We’ve fought the typical misalignments: one tool calls something “active_users”, another calls it “users_engaged”, a third treats “active” inconsistently. It doesn’t just slow things down – it erodes trust.
That’s why today we’re announcing that Honeydew is joining the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI) feels like a long-overdue step in the right direction. OSI is a chance to define something that scales beyond individual tools or vendors. It’s about ensuring that when you ask a question – from a BI dashboard, or via an AI assistant in your Teams or Slack – you get the same meaningful answer. OSI means the definitions you rely on at Honeydew will travel well.
Over the years, I’ve had hundreds of conversations with customers and partners about the value of interoperability. It aligns with what we’ve been pushing deeply in our roadmap: expressiveness, portability, and governance. As an open, vendor-neutral standard OSI helps us focus on what we do great: help users ask anything they want, from any tool they use.
A semantic layer isn’t just about the metadata – it’s about what you can do with it. A definition of “active users” might exist in metadata, but on its own it doesn’t help a business user ask, “How many new active users joined since yesterday?” This is where we come in. With our semantic compiler, metrics and dimensions flow into any BI tool – so users can just drag and drop them for a right answer. With our semantic AI agents, free-text questions in Slack or Teams rely on the same compiler for 100% consistency. And more: aggregate awareness acceleration so queries are both correct and fast; governance and security enforcement all the way from a user tool to the warehouse; and a practical workflow for data teams so it’s possible to build and maintain a semantic layer that serves an entire organization across its many domains.
At the end of the day, OSI is about giving the ecosystem a common metadata language – and that’s important. The reason our customers choose Honeydew is because we turn metadata into something tangible: governed, expressive, fast, and usable.
We’re proud to join Snowflake and our fellow partners in this important initiative. To learn more about the Open Semantic Interchange, read Snowflake’s announcement here.
