Comment by data_ders

hey -- Anders here, I've been helping the dbt Charts team. I loved this list you've enumerated here

> There’s governance, access controls, interactivity, and connectivity to semantic layers

I'd add to that list as well: KPIs, dropdowns, text boxes, theming, shared data sources.

If you're familiar with Vega-Lite [1], I like to explain dbt Charts as the Vega-Lite but for BI, in that it is a language that specifies all of the components of BI.

> are those other pieces going to be part of dbtTran Cloud?

Certainly there are some features that are more conducive to being offered as a managed service. However, we've built this enterprise BI tool backwards in that we've started less with commercialization in mind, but rather laying the groundwork in the language and OSS project, so that we need not reinvent the wheel over and over again.

I'm hand-waving here about a future that doens't yet exist. But in theory dbt Charts could be extended in the front end to allow for not just SQL or SL metric support, but any query language. Same for the backend, we dbt Charts can render to png and html today, but other formats are also possible!

[1]: https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/