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.
December 8, 2020
Five Ways to Improve Your Analytics ROI on SnowflakeFor practical reasons, it is increasingly difficult—and sometimes impossible—to perform large-scale analytics with an on-premises data warehouse. Scaling physical hardware to the needs of your customers is so cost intensive that you might well find yourself running a data center…
September 16, 2020
Google BigQuery Benchmark Results: A Closer LookLet’s talk about the results. In our most recent webinar with bol.com, Maurice Lacroix, BI Project Owner of bol.com and I shared how Maurice and his team are increasing the ROI in their Google BigQuery investment while boosting their BI…
August 4, 2020
Consider This When Managing Your SnowflakeIn a recent webinar, Mark Stange-Tregear of Rakuten Rewards and I discussed how to control costs and manage your cloud data warehouse environment. Mark made some excellent suggestions for how to better manage your Snowflake environment. A lot of the…
July 17, 2020
Four Ways to Implement a Universal Semantic LayerIf you have been following our content for a while, you are most likely familiar with the concept of a Universal Semantic Layer™. What are the options for delivering one? In a recent webinar, I shared four ways. Option #1:…
June 29, 2020
The 1990’s Called, They Want Their OLAP Back*Author’s Note: This is an update to the blog post “The 1990’s Called, They Want Their OLAP Back,” originally published in June 2020. For the modern cloud-first data pro, the terms “OLAP” and “cube” are dirty words. That said, many…
June 5, 2020
Excel with Google BigQueryI hear it all the time. Many enterprises hate Excel because it’s an analytics “free for all” but the business users love it and can’t live without it. No matter what BI tools an enterprise may have, ultimately, that last…
April 8, 2020
3 Things to Watch Out For with Google BigQuery for Cloud AnalyticsHave you either chosen Google BigQuery as your cloud data warehouse platform or you are considering doing so? The good news is that Google BigQuery is a great data warehouse platform that I highly recommend. However, there are some major…
March 18, 2020
3 Surprises in the 2020 Big Data & Analytics Maturity SurveyA new, independent survey by AtScale, Cloudera and ODPi, a Linux Foundation project, delivered some surprising results. In particular, there were 3 takeaways that are noteworthy which every enterprise should keep in mind when working through their future data strategy.…
March 9, 2020
3 Things About Data Virtualization You Might Not KnowData virtualization is not new. It was born in the naughts when data was still small by today’s standards. Unlike today, most data was stored in relational databases from a few vendors like Oracle, Microsoft and IBM. Oh my, how…
March 2, 2020
Data Lake Intelligence With Amazon S3 and Redshift SpectrumHadoop pioneered the concept of a data lake but the cloud really perfected it. It’s no longer necessary to pipe all your data into a data warehouse in order to analyze it. Cloud data lakes like Amazon S3 and tools…
February 11, 2020
Intelligent Virtualization for RetailI’m really excited about our latest release of the AtScale platform, 2020.1. This release delivers new, powerful capabilities, including the ability to combine data across different data sources in a single virtual cube. AtScale’s Intelligent Data Virtualization means that you…
December 23, 2019
Security & Governance in ActionSecurity and governance are top of mind in an era where data is everywhere and bad actors are trying to steal it. But it’s not just hackers we need to worry about. Providing inappropriate data access to people inside the…