Microsoft and Google back Apache Ossie for data and AI interoperability

Microsoft and Google have joined Apache Ossie, an open specification for exchanging semantic models across data, analytics and AI platforms. Over 60 companies including Databricks, Nvidia, Oracle, Salesforce and Snowflake back the project; Microsoft is building a two-way Power BI converter, while Google adds BigQuery/GoogleSQL support.

• Over 60 companies back the project, including Databricks, Nvidia, Oracle and Snowflake
• Microsoft is developing a two-way converter between Power BI and Ossie
• Google is adding support for the BigQuery/GoogleSQL dialect
• Spec version 0.2 is a development draft; the project is in Apache Incubator