March 4, 2025

The Semantic Lakehouse for AI/BI

Kyle Hale, Lead Product Architect with Databricks, coined the term "Semantic Lakehouse" in a 2022 blog. The blog explained how to extend the Lakehouse offering to users at the “top of the stack” leveraging PowerBI. The following year, in a…

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

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

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