Kieran O’Driscoll is the Director of Business Development at AtScale, where he leads global partnerships with cloud data leaders including Databricks, Snowflake, and Google Cloud. He combines deep technical insight with strategic execution to drive ecosystem growth and product adoption. Since joining AtScale, Kieran has helped shape the company’s alliance strategy, earning industry recognition such as Databricks’ “Emerging Partner of the Year.”
March 10, 2025
Data Intelligence Week: Unlocking AI & BI with AtScale + DatabricksAtScale and Databricks first partnered in early 2022. At the time, Databricks SQL was still gaining traction, and many enterprises relied on various presentation layers for analytics. Our mission was clear: to enable organizations to modernize their analytics stack by…
March 4, 2025
The Semantic Lakehouse for AI/BIKyle Hale, Lead Product Architect with Databricks, coined the term "Semantic Lakehouse" in a 2022 blog. The blog explained how to extend the Lakehouse offering to users at the “top of the stack” leveraging PowerBI. The following year, in a…
AtScale and Databricks first started partnering together in early 2022. At the time, Databricks SQL was relatively new, and many of their customers were still leveraging optional presentation layers to support Business Intelligence workloads. The partnership began to gain momentum.…
January 16, 2025
Open-Source Semantic Layer: Crucial for the Future of AI and BIThe fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Business Intelligence (BI) are undergoing rapid transformation, driven by advancements in machine learning, large language models (LLMs), and data democratization. Amid this evolution, open-source semantics are emerging as a cornerstone for bridging the…
August 15, 2024
Why a Semantic Layer is Critical in ManufacturingAdam Conway (SVP of Product at Databricks) recently published a blog titled “Big Data Is Back and Is More Important Than AI” and argues that the most important revenue-generating or cost-saving workloads depend on massive data sets. This is especially…
March 21, 2024
Democratizing Your Lakehouse to Excel Users with Databricks SQL and AtScaleWhat’s The Deal With Excel? Excel is the most predominant BI tool in the enterprise because of its versatility, ease of use, and range of capabilities. It is the tool of choice for almost a billion analysts worldwide. However, whenever…
September 20, 2023
Bridging the Gap: PowerBI on DatabricksAtScale has a strong history of collaboration and innovation with Microsoft, and was the first semantic layer platform to introduce native support for Microsoft’s Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) query language. This support lets Power BI users connect to AtScale in…
AtScale has a strong history of collaboration and innovation with Microsoft, and was the first semantic layer platform to introduce native support for Microsoft’s Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) query language. This support lets Power BI users connect to AtScale in…
August 17, 2023
Bridging the Gap: AtScale and Power BI in the Modern Data StackAtScale has a strong history of collaboration and innovation with Microsoft, and was the first semantic layer platform to introduce native support for Microsoft’s Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) query language. This support lets Power BI users connect to AtScale in…
July 26, 2023
Power BI “Live Connection” on Databricks, Snowflake and BigQueryAt AtScale, we’ve had a long history of partnership and co-innovation with Microsoft, having been the first semantic layer platform to introduce native support for Microsoft’s Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) query language. Native DAX support lets Power BI users connect…
November 3, 2022
Modernize Your SSAS Architecture with Databricks and AtScaleThis post was written in collaboration with Swaroop Oggu, Solutions Architect at Databricks. Dimensional analysis is an important tool for building analytics-oriented data products (e.g. interactive dashboards) based on data assets managed in a lakehouse. Historically, dimensional analysis has been…