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Updated March 6, 2025

Getting inconsistent or inaccurate results from Snowflake Cortex Analyst? You’re not alone. While Cortex Analyst’s text-to-SQL engine often boasts over 90% accuracy, real-world use cases frequently expose gaps in precision, context, and consistency. The culprit — a missing semantic layer.…

Updated March 4, 2025

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…

Updated March 4, 2025

AtScale and Databricks first started partnering together in early 2022. At the time, Databricks SQL was relatively new, and many of their customers were still leveraging optional presentation layers to support Business Intelligence workloads. The partnership began to gain momentum.…

Updated February 25, 2025

Summary: AtScale now integrates with Databricks Genie, enabling AI-driven natural language querying (NLQ) with governed, business-defined accuracy. Genie enables business users to query data in plain language, while AtScale ensures AI-generated SQL queries align with business definitions. AtScale’s semantic layer…

Updated February 19, 2025

Summary AtScale and Snowflake Cortex Analyst have joined forces to enable AI-driven natural language querying (NLQ) on governed semantic models. This integration ensures accurate, consistent SQL generation, aligning AI-driven queries with business definitions. AtScale acts as the governance layer, optimizing…

Updated February 13, 2025

Despite heavy investment in Snowflake’s modern data platform, many organizations still struggle to give Excel users smooth, efficient access to that data. The result? Data extracts, stale numbers, and inconsistent reporting across the enterprise. This guide outlines innovative implementation strategies…

Updated January 16, 2025

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…

Updated August 15, 2024

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…

Updated June 4, 2024

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…

Updated March 22, 2024

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…

Updated March 21, 2024

What’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…

Updated February 22, 2024

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…