The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for inheriting metadata concepts from product resources into a semantic model. One computer-implemented method includes defining a plurality of core data foundations, defining a derived data foundation by linking the plurality core data foundations to the derived data foundation, defining a plurality of core business layers, defining a derived business layer by linking the plurality of core business layers to the derived business layer, and compiling, by a computer, the derived business layer with the derived business layer as a universe.