Josh Epstein is a veteran technology marketing and strategy executive with nearly 25 years of experience bringing data-driven platforms to market. He’s a recognized thought leader in analytics, pioneering semantic layer frameworks and electric insights into how organizations operationalize data at scale. Josh has held leadership roles at both global enterprises—such as EMC, Oracle, and CA Technologies—and high-growth software companies, helping shape category-defining brands in business intelligence and cloud-native analytics. He holds a BS in Operations Research from Cornell and an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
April 6, 2026
Best Data Governance Tools for Enterprises: 2026 GuideFor years, data governance was viewed as a background concern. Teams had bigger priorities to tackle and more pertinent problems to solve. Then AI agents came into the fold and started generating business decisions from inconsistent data, and suddenly, governance…
As AI agents move beyond the helpful copilot phase and into more powerful applications, enterprises are responding with global adoption. Agentic AI is everywhere, from analytics and finance to customer service and operations. It's changing how organizations go from asking…
March 30, 2026
Why AI Agent Governance is the Latest Priority for EnterprisesOver the past year alone, AI tools that once surfaced insights and handed them to a human for action have begun carrying out those actions themselves. Sixty-two percent of organizations are now experimenting with AI agents, according to McKinsey's latest…
March 27, 2026
AI vs. BI: Differences, What Changed, and Why Semantics Became CriticalEnterprise analytics was never just about data. It was about trust and confidence, getting the right people the right information so they could make intelligent decisions and keep things moving forward. The BI stack was made for that purpose, and…
March 26, 2026
AI Agents Are Transforming Compliance: Opportunities and Risks for Enterprise DataAutonomous AI agents, which are systems designed to accomplish tasks and goals independently without human oversight, have become integral across a wide range of use cases, spanning from customer service to supply chain management. It's no surprise that, as regulatory…
March 16, 2026
Using AI Agents for Data Analysis: How Autonomous Agents Are Changing AnalyticsFor a long time, enterprise analytics centered around building dashboards, running scheduled reports, and relying on the right person to ask the right question at the right time. That model is changing. Autonomous AI agents can now look through data…
April 11, 2023
Empowering FinOps With a Semantic LayerI confess. I had heard the term FinOps batted around for the past few years, but I hadn’t really absorbed its significance. I started paying more attention after reading some research from Gartner Analyst Adam Ronthal. I was able to…
January 19, 2023
AtScale Enterprise AI Predictions 2023As we approach the end of 2022 and reflect on AtScale’s progress over the last 12 months, we asked four of our forward-looking AtScale executives for their thoughts on the broader data, analytics, and enterprise AI markets. Here are their…
October 6, 2022
Three Ways a Semantic Layer Helps Scale AI and BIAtScale partnered with the DBT Institute to research current sentiment among analytics professionals on the impact a semantic layer has on enterprise analytics. The recently released report, “The Business Impact of Using a Semantic Layer for AI and BI,” examines…
November 29, 2021
How to Build a Feature Store with AtScaleAtScale was conceived as an independent semantic layer for data and analytics for business intelligence users. Leading BI teams use AtScale to create enterprise metrics hubs, enabling self-serve access to a consistent source of metrics that are tied to data…
September 22, 2021
How a Semantic Layer Turns Excel into a Sophisticated BI PlatformMicrosoft Excel has been the workhorse analytics tool for generations of business analysts, financial modelers, and data hacks. It delivers the ultimate flexibility to manipulate data, create new metrics with cell calculations, build live visualizations and slice and dice data.…
September 13, 2021
10 Ways AtScale Helps Organizations Scale Data Science and Enterprise AIAtScale has been helping bridge Enterprise BI and Data Science for years, recently announcing AtScale AI-Link to simplify access to our semantic layer platform with a Python library designed for data scientists. We clearly see an explosion of interest around…
July 15, 2021
How a Semantic Layer Improves Tableau Performance for Dimensional AnalysisI have always been a fan of Tableau, and we have written before on the powerful combination of Tableau and AtScale. With Tableau expanding on its BI and Analytics position with their Salesforce.com acquisition, the potential for building powerful BI…