The Role of Semantic Models in Modern Business Intelligence

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  • Elavarasu Ramasamy

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Abstract

With the modern BI stack, many people are able to access shared warehouse data, but each dashboard willtypically interpret the same business metric differently. Semantic models have been suggested as the solution, represented as a layer of entities, joins, dimensions and metrics

References

1. Lei, F., et al. (2025). Spider 2.0: Evaluating language models on real-world enterprise text-to-SQL workflows. ICLR 2025 (oral). arXiv:2411.07763.

2. dbt Labs. (2026). Semantic layer vs. text-to-SQL: 2026 benchmark update. dbt Developer Blog. https://docs.getdbt.com/blog/semantic-layer-vs-text-to-sql-2026 (vendor blog, not peer-reviewed)

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2026-10-16

How to Cite

Elavarasu Ramasamy. (2026). The Role of Semantic Models in Modern Business Intelligence. Journal of Computational Analysis and Applications (JoCAAA), 35(10), 18–28. Retrieved from https://eudoxuspress.com/index.php/pub/article/view/5901

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