[ironchef]

Let’s say you work for a SaaS doing analytics. Your boss says “hey! We need to start reporting on new logos. Can you snag those from the DB?”

But what counts as a new logo? Does a pro serve engagement that doesn’t use the product count? What about a business using the SaaS but still in a trial period? Etc.

A semantic layer helps provide common agrees upon definitions to the business. So any one looking for common data entities can just look those things up… and can come to published definitions (which are backed by queries to databases, data lakes, etc).

Does that help? Another example of this would be dbt for example