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description: Use the Tableau Semantic Layer to organize your data into a single, reusable model. This shared layer calculates metrics consistently across Tableau Next components, Agents, and Marketing Cloud Growth campaigns. With one trusted source of truth, teams can analyze performance, generate data, and make decisions with confidence.
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# Gain Trusted Education Insights with a Unified Semantic Layer

Use the Tableau Semantic Layer to organize your data into a single, reusable model. This shared layer calculates metrics consistently across Tableau Next components, Agents, and Marketing Cloud Growth campaigns. With one trusted source of truth, teams can analyze performance, generate data, and make decisions with confidence.

**Where:** This change applies to Lightning Experience in Enterprise, Unlimited, and Developer editions where the Education Cloud license and Data 360, formerly Data Cloud, are enabled.

**Who:** Users with the Education Cloud Full Access and Data Cloud Architect permission sets can use this feature.

#### See Also

- [_Salesforce Help_: Create a Semantic Data Model for Education Cloud (can be outdated or unavailable during release preview)](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_create_sdm_for_education_cloud.htm&language=en_US)