Dave Mariani

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Dave is the founder of AtScale and is the Chief Technology Officer. Prior to AtScale, he was VP of Engineering at Klout & at Yahoo! where he built the world’s largest multi-dimensional cube for BI on Hadoop. Mariani is a Big Data visionary & serial entrepreneur.

June 17, 2025

Why Dashboards Alone Can’t Support Modern Analytics

The “death of the dashboard” may sound like an overstatement, but it reflects a real shift in enterprise analytics. Static dashboards are no longer enough to meet the needs of modern data consumers. In Eric Porres’ recent article, The Death…

June 10, 2025

Why Every Data-Driven Organization Needs a Semantic Layer Strategy

The modern enterprise is navigating two seismic shifts at once: the rise of generative AI (GenAI) and the demand for truly governed, real-time analytics. At the center of both transformations is a concept that, until recently, was overlooked by many:…

April 9, 2025

Modernizing OLAP for the Cloud: Why Legacy BI Needs a Semantic Upgrade

Organizations that have relied on OLAP cubes for years are hitting a wall. The traditional OLAP approach—great for fast, multidimensional analysis—was never designed for the modern cloud data ecosystem. And with the rise of cloud data platforms like Snowflake, Databricks,…