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Semantic Layer / Data modeling
Hello, My orginzation currently uses Oracle's OBIEE (Oracle Analytics Server replaced it a few years ago, we just haven't upgraded to OAS). The org is looking to move in a new direction and we h...
I'd say, from my present knowledge, what you describe can't be done.
To me, it is a matter of "how Power BI is designed to work" - the model you build in Power BI Desktop is the model shown in the "presentation layer". You can make that model whatever you like (given restrictions), but abstraction would need to be performed on a lower layer, either through M code (native queries of the objects added to the Power BI Semantic Model) or through objects in the databases / datasources below Power BI.
As far as I know, Power BI Semantic Models are not supporting tool agnosticity. They are the Power BI tool itself. But you can layer them, so they are perceived different from one another. Actually, they are not, they only differ by content.