January 16, 2025

Open-Source Semantic Layer: Crucial for the Future of AI and BI

The fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Business Intelligence (BI) are undergoing rapid transformation, driven by advancements in machine learning, large language models (LLMs), and data democratization. Amid this evolution, open-source semantics are emerging as a cornerstone for bridging the…

Posted by: Kieran O’Driscoll

August 15, 2024

Why a Semantic Layer is Critical in Manufacturing

Adam Conway (SVP of Product at Databricks) recently published a blog titled “Big Data Is Back and Is More Important Than AI” and argues that the most important revenue-generating or cost-saving workloads depend on massive data sets. This is especially…

Posted by: Kieran O’Driscoll

June 4, 2024

AtScale is Now Available as a Snowflake Native App in Snowflake’s Marketplace

Define and consume a universal semantic layer from your secure and governed Snowflake account. AtScale is officially available as a Snowflake Native App in Snowflake Marketplace. For those new to Snowflake Native Apps, they’re applications built using the Snowflake Native…

Posted by: Cort Johnson

March 22, 2024

Power BI Face Off: Databricks vs. Microsoft Fabric

As I hinted in my last blog post, “Your Questions Answered: TPC-DS Benchmark for Power BI/Direct Lake”, and due to popular customer demand, I’m happy to announce that we just published our Power BI/Direct Lake benchmark comparison for another data…

Posted by: Dave Mariani

February 22, 2024

Your Questions Answered: TPC-DS Benchmark for Power BI/Direct Lake

I’ve received quite a bit of feedback since releasing our TPC Benchmark on Power BI/Direct Lake report a few weeks ago. In online forums and in conversations with customers, prospects and partners, I collected the feedback and decided to use…

Posted by: Dave Mariani

September 26, 2023

Modernize Legacy BI and OLAP Workloads with AtScale and Google BigQuery

This post is authored in partnership with Naveen Punjabi, Director of Analytics and Data Science Partnerships at Google Cloud. An original version of the post was initially published on the Google Cloud Blog.  A partnership that brings new economics and…

Posted by: Dave Mariani

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

November 15, 2022

How to Streamline Data Science Workloads and Feature Engineering in Snowflake

Our partnership with Snowflake has drastically sped up our customers' data processing capabilities by eliminating the need for tedious data engineering tasks. By driving workloads directly to Snowflake, users can create accelerated time-to-prediction rates and a more efficient method to…

Posted by: Daniel Gray