Chris Oshiro

June 1, 2021

You may have heard the term semantic layer before, as it’s been around for some time. Semantic layers were invented to mold relational databases and their SQL dialects into an approachable interface for business users. Until recently, however, the semantic…

November 24, 2020

Following up from my previous blog post “The Three Opportunities for Cloud OLAP to Improve Enterprise Analytics” - these business constructs in business analytics are not new (multi-fact tables, hierarchies, drill-down paths, shared/unshared dimensions). There have been BI tools that…

November 4, 2020

Where is the industry going in terms of large scale data and machine learning data? We’ve made fantastic strides over the last five-eight years, but business-centric analytics has not reduced in value. Much of the business intelligence and data science…

August 18, 2020

Throughout AtScale’s history, our focus is to provide our customers with a business-friendly data interface which both abstracts away the complexity of the underlying data model and autonomously builds Acceleration Structures to optimize queries (performance and compute). As the data…

July 24, 2020

There are preconceived notions of what life will be like for someone when they switch to the Cloud. While there are many indisputable advantages, have your umbrella ready. Why do I say this? In this blog post, I share five…

April 20, 2020

Having spent the better part of 20 years in data analytics, I consider myself fairly savvy in the world of data transformation, complex financial models, and best practices for data visualization. As someone knee deep in the latest and greatest…

November 7, 2019

Microsoft’s recent announcements at Microsoft Ignite should be resonating with global enterprise companies whether they are pure Microsoft client or not. Microsoft is taking a very bold swipe at Google (GCP/GBQ) and Amazon (AWS/Redshift) during thier Synapse (next gen Azure…