June 19, 2025
How to Stop Metric Sprawl Across Power BI, Tableau, and Excel with SnowflakeIn 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…
June 5, 2025
Implementing a Centralized Semantic Layer for Power BI and Tableau in SnowflakeOrganizations 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…
May 26, 2022
The Semantics of the Semantic Layer Part 6: Performance OptimizationThis 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…
March 10, 2022
AtScale + Tableau: What do Toyota, Wayfair and Tyson Have in Common?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…
March 3, 2022
AtScale + Tableau | Accelerating Self-Service BI with a Semantic LayerWe'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…
July 15, 2021
How a Semantic Layer Improves Tableau Performance for Dimensional AnalysisI 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…
October 9, 2020
Tableau Conference-ish TakeawaysIt 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,…
September 29, 2020
Join AtScale at the Tableau Conference-ishAtScale 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…
December 12, 2019
How AtScale Makes Tableau Even BetterI 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…
November 18, 2019
Leaving Las Vegas: Recap of the 2019 Tableau ConferenceWow! What a week we had with one of the biggest data communities in the world at the Tableau Conference in Las Vegas. This year’s event had about 20,000 data-driven people from all industries and all-sized organizations. And, we were…
