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Updated May 3, 2022

We've learned a lot working together with top technologists & strategists like Arun Ulag for Power BI (the leading BI tool) and Michael Gregory & Simon Field for Snowflake (the most popular data warehouse).  In this blog post, we’ll recap…

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 February 24, 2022

I recently connected with a few of the top data leaders to discuss the role of business analytics and machine learning at their organizations. We chatted about the nuances of global data programs, promoting data literacy at large enterprises, measuring…

Updated September 30, 2021

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…

Updated September 22, 2021

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.…

Updated August 5, 2021

Many enterprises today choose the Microsoft stack because it fits seamlessly with the Windows OS and existing business applications. That’s why AtScale has partnered with Snowflake to streamline reporting and analytics with Power BI. If you haven’t seen our previous…

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 April 29, 2021

Attention Power BI enthusiasts, what I am about to say is huge! AtScale now lets you get Live Query access to cloud data warehouses within a full, multi-dimensional model. This means you get live access to your cloud data with…

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 14, 2020

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…

Updated April 20, 2020

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…

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…