Atlan Joins Snowflake and Industry Leaders to Launch the Open Semantic Interchange, Closing the Context Gap for AI-Ready Enterprises
The Open Semantic Interchange creates a universal standard for semantics — and with Atlan as the context layer, enterprises can finally close the gap between AI pilots and production.
Last Updated on: September 23rd, 2025 | 4 min read
San Francisco — September 23, 2025 — Atlan, the AI-native metadata and governance platform and Snowflake’s 2025 Data Governance Partner of the Year, today announced its participation as a launch partner in the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI).
OSI is a new open source initiative collectively championed by Snowflake and 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.
Bridging the AI Value Chasm #
Enterprises today face what Atlan calls the AI Value Chasm — the gap between successful pilots and stalled production. While models often perform well in isolation, they break down at scale because of the Context Gap:
- Data context scattered across CRMs, warehouses, and collaboration tools.
- Business meaning fragmented across teams with inconsistent definitions.
- Governance principles evolving weekly across industries and geographies.
The OSI directly addresses this gap by standardizing semantic metadata exchange, ensuring that humans, AI agents, and data systems share the same trusted context.
“Atlan’s mission is to be the context layer for the AI-native enterprise,” said Prukalpa Sankar, co-founder of Atlan. “By joining OSI, we’re helping ensure that context — about data, business meaning, and governance — travels seamlessly across every tool, dashboard, and AI agent. Together with Snowflake and our fellow partners, we are building the trusted foundation enterprises need to scale AI responsibly and confidently.”
Extending the Metadata Lakehouse to the Data & AI Ecosystem #
Atlan’s participation in OSI builds on its recent product launches at Atlan Activate, where the company introduced the industry’s first Metadata Lakehouse alongside innovations like AI Governance Studio, Data Quality Studio, MCP Server and App Framework. These innovations help enterprises:
- Unify context across data, meaning, and governance.
- Collaborate on shared definitions and governance principles.
- Activate context directly in workflows, copilots, and AI platforms.
With OSI, Atlan extends these capabilities beyond the enterprise, creating a universal standard that ensures trusted context is interoperable across the entire data and AI ecosystem.
“The Open Semantic Interchange is a critical step toward unlocking a new era of interoperability,” said Josh Klahr, Director of Analytics Product Management, Snowflake. “By working with partners like Atlan, this initiative ensures consistent, trusted semantic context across tools and vendors, enabling organizations to scale AI adoption with confidence.”
As a launch partner, Atlan will contribute its expertise in metadata management, governance, and AI-native context to shape OSI as the industry’s semantic backbone. This collaboration between Atlan,Snowflake, and other industry leaders represents a major milestone in the journey to close the AI Value Chasm and unlock the promise of AI at enterprise scale.
To learn more about the Open Semantic Interchange, visit Snowflake’s blog.
About Atlan #
Atlan is the AI-native metadata and governance platform that helps enterprises unify, collaborate on, and activate trusted context across their data and AI ecosystems. Backed by top investors including GIC, Insight Partners, Sequoia Capital India, and Salesforce Ventures, Atlan is trusted by the likes of Mastercard, General Motors, Workday, Unilever, Ralph Lauren, FOX, Virgin Media O2, Nasdaq, Medtronic, Plaid, and HubSpot to enable major AI and data democratization initiatives. Atlan is also a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, Leader and Customer Favorite in the Forrester Wave, and Snowflake’s 2025 Data Governance Partner of the Year. Learn more at atlan.com.
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