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Updated April 6, 2026

For 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…

Updated April 6, 2026

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…

Updated March 30, 2026

Over 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…

Updated March 27, 2026

Enterprise 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…

Updated March 26, 2026

Autonomous 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…

Updated March 16, 2026

For 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…

Updated August 28, 2025

Boost Tableau-Snowflake Live Connection Performance: Tips from the Experts Many organizations rely on Tableau with Snowflake to power real-time analytics, but performance issues often sneak in, especially when live connections are in play. These setups provide instant access to up-to-date…

Updated June 19, 2025

In a multi-tool analytics world, one of the most persistent challenges facing data-driven organizations is metric sprawl. When business teams use different BI tools each with their own logic and metrics, the result is conflicting numbers, duplicated effort, and a…

Updated June 5, 2025

Organizations today rely on both Power BI and Tableau to unlock insights from their Snowflake data. But without a centralized approach, things get messy—definitions drift, performance suffers, and costs climb. Despite significant investments in cloud data platforms, data teams still…

Updated May 26, 2022

This is the sixth blog in my blog series, The Semantics of the Semantic Layer, where I discuss the seven core capabilities of a semantic layer. In this blog, I will dive deeper into the autonomous performance optimization capabilities that…

Updated March 10, 2022

When I talk to customers, they always find value in stories about how our other customers are progressing on their data and analytics initiatives and their journeys toward realizing self-service BI.  This post will do a deep dive into a…

Updated March 3, 2022

We've been publishing a lot of new case studies based on our experience helping customers get value from AtScale's semantic layer.  With that in mind, we’d like to delve into our partnership with Tableau. The well-known data visualization tool is…

Updated July 15, 2021

I 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…

Updated October 9, 2020

It was great to be a part of the re-imagined Tableau Conference this year. This year, we joined the #datafam online. AtScale co-founder, Dave Mariani, just may have attended his first tech conference in PJs and AtScale social media pro,…

Updated September 29, 2020

AtScale is joining one of the biggest data communities in the world at the Tableau Conference-ish that takes place from October 6-8, 2020 virtually. We’re looking forward to meeting thousands of data-driven people like you from all industries and all…

Updated December 12, 2019

I consider myself to be an early adopter of Tableau.  I discovered Tableau Desktop back in 2007 when I was CTO for Bluelithium.  I bought a copy with my personal credit card and expensed it to the company.  What I…