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Universal Semantic Layer : The foundation for instant, actionable, agentic analytics

Snowflake offers relational, scale-out capabilities to make data available at a lower cost with fewer data management overheads. However, the continuous influx of data leaves organizations with the baggage of unpredictable compute costs while performing analytics on growing enterprise data. Kyvos eliminates these challenges, enabling cost-effective analytics on Snowflake using any BI tool.

Kyvos cuts down Snowflake querying costs substantially while delivering limitless scalability for users across the enterprise.

The Kyvos Solution

Kyvos enables instant, multi-dimensional analytics on billions of data points by building a semantic layer on the cloud. The platform delivers lightning-fast performance at any scale of data, along with cost reduction over Snowflake.

Kyvos and Snowflake together deliver a comprehensive solution to data scientists, business leaders and analysts. They can unlock hidden insights instantly to make strategic decisions and improve business performance. Replacing the legacy systems, we bring forth an innovative approach to optimizing data experiences and enabling deeper insights for any number of users within an organization.

Leverage the power of enterprise data

  • One unified semantic foundation
  • Zero metric drift, highest AI accuracy
  • 1000x faster analytics at scale
  • >50% cloud cost savings

Benefits

Enable self-service, multi dimensional analytics for users across the enterprise while breaking through data complexity. Allow users to query, filter, slice, dice, drill down and explore extremely large datasets on Snowflake & get their answers instantly with zero latencies.

Stop Waiting. Start Analyzing

Build optimized data models in minutes with our intuitive, code-free designer and eliminate time-consuming data engineering efforts.

Democratize Analytics on the Cloud

Ensure that users see data as per their authorization with our multi-layer security model, including row and column-level access control.

Eliminate Analytical Complexity

Build optimized data models in minutes with our intuitive, code-free designer and eliminate time-consuming data engineering efforts.

Fine-Grained Access Control

Ensure that users see data as per their authorization with our multi-layer security model, including row and column-level access control.

Cost-Effective Analytics

Optimize costs with our price-performant querying approach and auto-scaling capabilities.

A Perfect Blueprint for Scalability

Designed from the ground up with true elasticity in mind, Kyvos helps enterprises grow or shrink with ease and speed while controlling their analytics costs.

The Kyvos Advantage

Kyvos semantic layer connects data, BI and AI into one scalable analytics foundation. It is designed to handle growing data volumes, rising user concurrency and increasing business complexity—without rebuilding models or breaking governance. By combining performance, scalability, cost predictability, seamless connectivity and strong governance, Kyvos supports reliable analytics as organizations grow and change.

Unified semantic foundation

Kyvos provides a single, governed semantic foundation where metrics, dimensions, relationships and hierarchies are defined once and reused everywhere. This ensures a single source of truth that delivers consistent BI and accurate AI. It also enables rapid data exploration, strong data + AI governance and seamless interoperability across tools, platforms and applications.

BI performance

Kyvos delivers sub-second BI performance on billions of rows, even for deep, high-grain analytics. It keeps analytics and ad-hoc exploration fast as data volumes and users grow, without limits on scale. Kyvos works with all popular BI tools like Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Strategy, Excel and others, providing consistent answers across teams, tools and workflows.

Multidimensional analytics

Kyvos delivers high-performance, high-grain multidimensional analytics at massive scale on the cloud. It supports high cardinality, complex hierarchies and instant slice, dice and drill across live enterprise data. By delivering all the analytical capabilities enterprises relied on from legacy platforms—and going far beyond them with a unified semantic foundation and cloud-native architecture—Kyvos eliminates the need for SSAS, Essbase, TM1 or Azure Analysis Services for modern BI and AI workloads.

Cloud cost savings

Kyvos delivers cost-efficient analytics across AWS, Azure, GCP, BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift and Databricks by minimizing and optimizing query pushdowns and compute usage. Enterprises can scale users, workloads and analytic depth without linear cost increases—avoiding over-provisioning while maintaining high performance.

Deepest, widest semantic data models

Kyvos brings 10,000+ KPIs, 1,000+ measures, 1,000+ attributes, 100+ dimensions and 30+ facts into one unified semantic data model. This semantic foundation is used consistently across the enterprise, enabling multidimensional analytics that scale without breaking, grounding production-ready AI in semantic context and delivering price-performant models that help lower cloud costs.

Consistent BI

Kyvos enforces one governed definition of KPIs through a shared semantic foundation, ensuring calculations, hierarchies and filters are consistent across dashboards, teams and regions. Changes are versioned, controlled and rolled out in a governed way. Kyvos eliminates time wasted reconciling conflicting numbers and builds stronger confidence in AI and advanced analytics through stable, reliable metrics.

Accurate AI

Kyvos provides a single governed data and metric model that grounds every AI answer. A shared semantic context ensures that every AI response reflects the same metrics and meaning across enterprise dashboards, reports and models. This dramatically reduces hallucinations, contradictions and “BI vs AI” disputes. The result is explainable answers that can be traced directly back to governed data.

1000x Faster Analytics

Reliably fast analytics performance, even as data volumes, users and complexity grow.

Analytics at Scale

Consistent, governed analytics as data volumes, users and business complexity grow—without re-architecture or rework.

>50% Savings

Price-performant analytics even as data volumes, users and complexity grow

Deepest, Widest Semantic Data Models

10,000+ KPIs, 100+ dimensions, 1000+ measures in one high-performance semantic data model—built and deployed with ease.

Rapid data exploration

Kyvos gives every user access to the same shared, business-friendly semantic layer for faster, deeper exploration of enterprise data. Users can move freely from high-level KPIs to detailed transactions, ask follow-up questions instantly and explore across domains. With consistent meaning, fast response times and support for all skill levels, Kyvos turns exploration into a continuous, interactive process instead of a slow, expert-only task.

Data and AI governance

Kyvos delivers trusted, fast decisions with a centralized semantic layer that keeps metrics, definitions and business logic consistent across BI and AI. Governance is defined once and consumed everywhere, with decentralized access for thousands of users. Fine-grained row-, column- and metric-level security is enforced across all tools, with SSO, role-based access and integrations with enterprise identity systems. Built-in lineage, audit logs and explainable logic provide full traceability from source data to BI and AI outputs.

Data interoperability

Kyvos enables true data interoperability by providing one logical, consistent view across AI, BI and data platforms with no vendor lock-in. Semantic context is centralized and managed in one place, creating a single shared data language for trusted analytics everywhere. This interoperability strengthens governance and control at scale.

Live connectivity with BI and AI tools

Kyvos offers state-of-the-art connectivity with BI and AI tools via SQL and MDX connectors.

Power BI Named Connector Microsoft has released and certified a named connector for Kyvos and it is listed in the Power BI Connection Catalog. The connectivity not only retains Kyvos semantic layer views but also comes with robust OAuth2.0 SSO capabilities.
Tableau Named Connector Kyvos named connector for Tableau is certified, released and listed in its Connection Catalog. It comes with OAuth2.0 SSO capabilities while preserving Kyvos semantic layer view.
Strategy Named Connector Kyvos Connector for Strategy is certified and released by the BI platform. Listed in the Strategy Connection Catalog, the connector helps preserve Kyvos semantic layer views for the users.
Excel Add-In Kyvos offers the best-in-class connectivity with Excel via MDX connector. The OAuth2.0 SSO-enabled connection ensures advanced financial reporting capabilities—beyond pivot tables—for global financial institutions.
Other BI Tools Can be connected to Kyvos semantic models using Spark SQL or SSAS connector.

In addition, Kyvos MCP server helps LLMs and AI agents connect with enterprise data, tools and APIs. It acts as a bridge, providing a secure and standardized way for AI to access and use these systems without needing complex, custom-built integrations. Kyvos MCP server simplifies AI development by replacing fragmented, custom integrations with a universal protocol, making AI applications more context-aware and powerful, reducing hallucinations. Lastly, its document loader allows enterprises to use both structured as well as unstructured data, making Kyvos a single platform for high-performance BI and AI applications.

Seamless connectivity with all data platforms

Kyvos offers native support to access enterprise data on the cloud or on-premises data lakes without any latency. Supported platforms include Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Cloudera and Apache Hadoop. Kyvos also supports cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, Databricks, Teradata, Oracle RDS and Hive.

Kyvos Architecture

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Technical Specifications

Powerful Data Model
  • Intuitive drag and drop UI for data modeling.
  • ML-powered smart recommendation engine to build intelligent aggregates automatically.
  • Support for recursive, unbalanced, ragged and alternate hierarchies, as well as custom rollups.
  • Accurate distinct count on billions of transactions. Provision for many-to-many relationships.
  • Scheduled and automated incremental builds. Sliding window for automated data truncation during builds.
  • Data model modifications without the need to rebuild.
Data Platforms
  • Native support for all cloud platforms including AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
  • Support for cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Teradata, Oracle RDS, Databricks’ Delta Lake and Hive.
  • Support for the latest releases of Cloudera.
BI and Data Science Tools
  • Support for all BI tools such as Tableau, Strategy, SSRS, Excel, XLCubed, Looker and Power BI and data science engines like R and Python.
  • Open API and Library Connectivity using DAX, SQL or MDX, JAVA and REST APIs or existing libraries like OLAP4j or Python’s OLAP.XMLA.
  • Plugin for Excel with advanced visualization capabilities.
  • Custom connectors for Tableau and Strategy.
Kyvos Visualization Tool
  • Native visualization layer with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface for self-service analytics.
  • Extensive library of charts including bar, line, GIS, heat map, treemap and other advanced visualizations.
  • Built-in support for cohort analysis on massive datasets.
  • Auto-visualization feature automatically chooses correct visualization based on type of data being loaded.
  • Ability to create custom visualizations using D3.js.
  • Support for export and sharing of worksheets and dashboards for enterprise-wide collaboration.
Optimized Performance at Massive Scale
  • Scale-out querying to support multiple groups and users.
  • Intelligent multi-level caching based on query patterns/usage.
  • Segmentation feature enables dedicated query engines for mission critical functions.
  • Querying and drill through on raw data using Presto & Hive.
Enterprise Security Framework
  • SOC2 Compliant.
  • Row and column level security, role-based access control and personal access token-based authentication.
  • AD integration with support for multiple LDAP accounts.
  • TLS encryption with mutual authentication for all internal communication.
  • SSO through providers such as Okta, SiteMinder using OIDC (OAuth 2.0 protocol).
  • Integration with enterprise security protocols like Knox, Ranger, Sentry and Kerberos, as well as custom APIs.
  • Azure Key Vault (with AES encryption) and AWS Secrets Manager support for storing sensitive information.
Easy to Deploy and Manage
  • Automated wizard and template-based deployment on cloud.
  • Built-in validation framework for sanity check on deployment.
  • Scheduled autoscaling on cloud for resource optimization.
  • No data movement or additional infrastructure needed for storing data models.
  • Automatic health monitoring/management of Kyvos components.
  • Consolidated dashboard to monitor resource consumption.

About Kyvos

Kyvos is a semantic layer for AI and BI.

Built on a fully distributed, elastic architecture, Kyvos leverages AI-powered smart aggregation and ultra-wide, deep semantic models to deliver sub-second query performance on billions of rows — while optimizing for cost.

It provides a unified semantic foundation for 100% context-aware, enterprise-grade conversational analytics and AI agents, ensuring the highest accuracy and trust at scale.