September 20, 2023

Bridging the Gap: PowerBI on Databricks

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…

Posted by: Kieran O’Driscoll

Bridging the Gap: PowerBI on Snowflake

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…

Posted by: Kieran O’Driscoll

February 23, 2023

Power BI DirectQuery vs. Import Mode

This blog is part of a series on Microsoft’s BI and Analytics tools 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.…

Posted by: Greg Deckler

June 23, 2022

How to Use Excel for Analytics in the Cloud

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