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May 27, 2025

Why Is Power BI Slow with Snowflake? How to Fix Common Performance Problems

If your Power BI dashboards feel more like a waiting game than a real-time tool, you're not alone. Many teams struggle with sluggish performance when connecting Power BI to Snowflake. Dashboards that should load in seconds often take minutes. The…

Posted by: Macaulay Parker

April 15, 2025

Connect Excel to Snowflake Without ODBC: Smarter Alternatives for Business Users

Excel remains a go-to tool for business users who want quick, flexible access to data. But when it comes to connecting Excel to Snowflake, the traditional route — via ODBC — can be a technical nightmare. Driver installs, authentication headaches,…

Posted by: Macaulay Parker

April 3, 2025

How a Typical Power BI Customer Can Save Millions in Annual Costs

The Rising Cost Challenge for Power BI Customers Organizations across industries rely on Power BI to drive business intelligence and inform strategic decisions. However, as data volumes increase, so do the associated costs. Businesses often face growing expenses related to…

Posted by: Stephen Berg

March 13, 2025

Excel + Snowflake: How AtScale Helps Bridge the Gap Between Data Warehouse and Spreadsheet Analysis

Despite heavy investments in Snowflake's modern data platform, many business users still default to Excel for day-to-day analysis. The result? Stale extracts, inconsistent KPIs, and a frustrating disconnect between centralized data and the tools people actually use. The AtScale semantic…

Posted by: Macaulay Parker

February 13, 2025

Simplifying Snowflake Access for Excel Users: Implementation Strategies

Despite heavy investment in Snowflake’s modern data platform, many organizations still struggle to give Excel users smooth, efficient access to that data. The result? Data extracts, stale numbers, and inconsistent reporting across the enterprise. This guide outlines innovative implementation strategies…

Posted by: Macaulay Parker

February 11, 2025

How to Write Report-Scoped DAX Expressions Using AtScale Dimensional Models

In my last post, I demonstrated the many advantages of using AtScale Models to power your Business Intelligence workloads, including human-friendly SML syntax, Git integration, multi-tool support, zero-extract Live Connections, and proven BI Modeling capabilities. In this post, I'll demonstrate…

Posted by: Daren Drummond

October 21, 2024

How to Optimize Modern Data Models Without Sacrificing Proven BI Techniques

Tabular models and the Data Analysis Expression (DAX) language offer Microsoft Power BI users enormous analytic and visualization capabilities. As powerful as these tools are, when using them, it can feel like one is reinventing the wheel to solve basic…

Posted by: Daren Drummond

May 23, 2024

Is Fabric and Direct Lake a Game Changer for Microsoft?

This blog is part of a series on Microsoft Fabric from Greg Deckler, Vice President at a global IT services firm who leads a practice specializing in Microsoft technologies such as Dynamics 365, Power BI, and Azure. Greg is a…

Posted by: Greg Deckler

April 30, 2024

Is Fabric and Direct Lake a Game Changer for Microsoft?

This blog is part of a series on Microsoft Fabric from Greg Deckler, Vice President at a global IT services firm who leads a practice specializing in Microsoft technologies such as Dynamics 365, Power BI, and Azure. Greg is a…

Posted by: Greg Deckler

April 2, 2024

Is Fabric and Direct Lake a Game Changer for Microsoft?

This blog is part of a series on Microsoft Fabric from Greg Deckler, Vice President at a global IT services firm who leads a practice specializing in Microsoft technologies such as Dynamics 365, Power BI, and Azure. Greg is a…

Posted by: Greg Deckler
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