March 22, 2024
Power BI Face Off: Databricks vs. Microsoft FabricAs 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…
March 21, 2024
Democratizing Your Lakehouse to Excel Users with Databricks SQL and AtScaleWhat’s The Deal With Excel? Excel is the most predominant BI tool in the enterprise because of its versatility, ease of use, and range of capabilities. It is the tool of choice for almost a billion analysts worldwide. However, whenever…
February 22, 2024
Your Questions Answered: TPC-DS Benchmark for Power BI/Direct LakeI’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…
September 26, 2023
Modernize Legacy BI and OLAP Workloads with AtScale and Google BigQueryThis 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…
September 20, 2023
Bridging the Gap: PowerBI on DatabricksAtScale 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…
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…
November 15, 2022
How to Streamline Data Science Workloads and Feature Engineering in SnowflakeOur 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…
November 3, 2022
Modernize Your SSAS Architecture with Databricks and AtScaleThis post was written in collaboration with Swaroop Oggu, Solutions Architect at Databricks. Dimensional analysis is an important tool for building analytics-oriented data products (e.g. interactive dashboards) based on data assets managed in a lakehouse. Historically, dimensional analysis has been…
October 4, 2022
Getting Started with a Semantic Layer with Snowflake and AtScaleMore than 10 years after the explosion of big data analytics technologies, data scientists still spend nearly half their time on data preparation. Despite all their hard work preparing data for use, 86% of the data used to create insights…
August 11, 2022
How Trumid Enables Real-Time Analysis with BigQuery & LookerI recently hosted a live customer webinar with a Forbes Top 50 FinTech company that uses AtScale to support their data science initiatives. Trumid’s senior data engineer Colin Reid joined me to share insights into the problems his team is…
