Power BI Won’t Support Snowflake Semantic Views…Now What?
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Microsoft has confirmed no plans to natively support third-party semantic models like Snowflake Semantic Views in Power BI, creating a significant gap for joint customers. The post explains Snowflake's Cortex AI features (Cortex Search, Cortex Analyst, Cortex Agents, Snowflake Intelligence), outlines why customers want a unified semantic layer across BI and AI tools, and presents three current options: continuing with Power BI-only semantic models, using a community-built custom connector, or maintaining parallel semantic models in both platforms. Snowflake is investing in Semantic View Autopilot (which can ingest .pbix/.pbit files) and upcoming features to be announced at Snowflake Summit. Notably, Microsoft Teams and Copilot do support Snowflake Cortex Agents, making Power BI the outlier in the Microsoft ecosystem.
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What Options Are We Left With?Option 1: Business as UsualOption 2: Custom ConnectorsOption 3: Maintain Both (The Reality for Most Organizations)What Snowflake is Building to Close the GapSemantic View AutopilotMore coming soon…Sort: