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February 12, 2019

How to Connect Excel and Google BigQuery

Despite the existence of a plethora of data analytics tools, Microsoft Excel is still the preferred choice for many analysts working with data. With the continued growth of data, as well as migration to the cloud, accessing the data necessary…

Posted by: Dan Schulwolf

July 23, 2019

AtScale + Google BigQuery: Live Excel Connection and OLAP for a Powerful Multi-dimensional Analytics Platform

Google BigQuery revolutionized data warehouses with its cloud based, serverless, fully managed data platform. Turn BigQuery into a massively parallel, multi-dimensional powerhouse with AtScale. AtScale and Google BigQuery together provide a cost effective, business friendly, analytics solution that includes a…

Posted by: Dave Mariani

April 20, 2020

Excelling at Modern Analytics

Having spent the better part of 20 years in data analytics, I consider myself fairly savvy in the world of data transformation, complex financial models, and best practices for data visualization. As someone knee deep in the latest and greatest…

Posted by: Chris Oshiro

June 5, 2020

Excel with Google BigQuery

I hear it all the time. Many enterprises hate Excel because it’s an analytics “free for all” but the business users love it and can’t live without it. No matter what BI tools an enterprise may have, ultimately, that last…

Posted by: Dave Mariani

September 14, 2020

Join Us to Learn How to Build Business Forecasts Using Microsoft Excel with 10X the Data and 20X the Speed

In a world that relies so heavily on data, you are either keeping up with the speed of growth or just barely holding on. For Microsoft Excel users who want to better understand the needs of their business, it isn’t…

Posted by: Kayla Chiara

September 22, 2021

How a Semantic Layer Turns Excel into a Sophisticated BI Platform

Microsoft 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.…

Posted by: Josh Epstein

September 30, 2021

How to Connect AtScale to Excel to Directly Analyze Large Cloud Data Sets

Last week, AtScale announced new Excel integrations and we blogged about the ability to use Excel as a powerful business intelligence platform. In this post, we will cover the basics of using AtScale to connect Excel to a cloud data…

Posted by: Mario Mathiss

October 7, 2021

How to Leverage the Power of AtScale with Ad Hoc Analysis in Excel

No matter how sophisticated and agile an enterprise BI program may be, there is always a need to go deeper than canned reports and dashboards. Business analysts’ primary role is to figure out what the data is saying and support decision…

Posted by: Mario Mathiss

October 20, 2021

AtScale + Excel: Working with Blended Data Sets

AtScale’s semantic layer weaves together multiple data sources into a single view of analysis-ready data that can be easily accessed and reliably used by analysts and data scientists for any number of use cases. AtScale’s no-code data modeling utility allows…

Posted by: Mario Mathiss

June 23, 2022

How to Use Excel in the Cloud for High-Speed Analytics

Despite having a billion users, Excel is not always thought of as a business intelligence (BI) tool. Yet Excel remains by far the predominant BI consumption platform in enterprise data because its formulas and functions make it a powerful tool…

Posted by: Dave Mariani

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