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.
September 26, 2024
AtScale Unveils Natural Language Query Capabilities, Revolutionizing Data Access for Business UsersHere at AtScale, we’re continuing to redefine the business intelligence (BI) landscape. With our new natural language query (NLQ) capabilities, we’re taking another leap forward in empowering businesses with data-driven insights. This innovation enables business users to access insights from…
September 10, 2024
Announcing Open Source Semantic Modeling Language (SML)It’s been over ten years since my co-founders and I launched AtScale to democratize analytics for everyone. We quickly realized that we needed to create a business-friendly view on top of the technical data so that ordinary business users could…
August 1, 2024
Building a Common Data Language: How a Semantic Layer Drives Collaboration and TrustDataveristy first published this post on June 17, 2024. You can read the original article here. --- The self-service analytics revolution was intended to free business users from IT chains. The idea was to break the IT bottleneck by allowing…
June 13, 2024
Creating a Data-Driven Culture: Insights From Industry Leaders at 2024 Semantic Layer SummitIn the ever-evolving business landscape, the push towards being data-driven is more than a mere trend—it is a necessary shift that companies must embrace to remain competitive and innovative. The recent panel discussion on creating a data-driven culture, hosted during…
June 5, 2024
Unlock the Future of Data Analytics with AtScale’s Next-Generation PlatformNext-Generation Platform AtScale has announced the general availability of the AtScale Semantic Layer Platform containerized edition! This new release encapsulates everything we have learned and leveraged with our existing product over the last decade in a new, modern package offering…
We are thrilled to announce the general availability of the AtScale Developer Edition! You can register and download it here. GA Developer Highlights Available for free Access to PostGres included Public Repo can be found here Allows developers to…
May 7, 2024
Third Annual Semantic Layer Summit Highlights: A Leap Forward in Data AnalyticsOn April 24, 2024, AtScale hosted the third annual Semantic Layer Summit, which gathered prominent leaders from the data and analytics industry. The event marked a significant year for semantic layer platforms, which were recognized increasingly as crucial to the…
March 22, 2024
Power BI Face Off: Databricks vs. Microsoft FabricAs I hinted in my last blog post, “Your Questions Answered: TPC-DS Benchmark for Power BI/Direct Lake”, and due to popular customer demand, I’m happy to announce that we just published our Power BI/Direct Lake benchmark comparison for another data…
February 22, 2024
Your Questions Answered: TPC-DS Benchmark for Power BI/Direct LakeI’ve received quite a bit of feedback since releasing our TPC Benchmark on Power BI/Direct Lake report a few weeks ago. In online forums and in conversations with customers, prospects and partners, I collected the feedback and decided to use…
September 26, 2023
Modernize Legacy BI and OLAP Workloads with AtScale and Google BigQueryThis post is authored in partnership with Naveen Punjabi, Director of Analytics and Data Science Partnerships at Google Cloud. An original version of the post was initially published on the Google Cloud Blog. A partnership that brings new economics and…
July 13, 2023
The 6 Principles of Modern Data ArchitectureOne of my favorite parts of my job at AtScale is spending time with customers and prospects. More specifically, I enjoy learning what matters most to them as they move to modern data architecture. I've noticed six main themes that…
June 29, 2023
Preventing Semantic Sprawl in the Modern Data Analytics StackData is invaluable to an organization’s decision-making, business innovation, and cross-team collaboration. With the rise of big data and cloud data warehouses, fully-realized democratization is the next step in many businesses’ data journeys. They want to enable company-wide, self-service analytics,…