April 7, 2025

Snowflake Cost Management & Control: Best Practices for Enterprise BI Workloads

As organizations scale their Snowflake deployments to support enterprise-level BI workloads, cost control quickly becomes a top priority. While Snowflake’s pay-per-use model is powerful, it can lead to unexpected expenses when query inefficiencies and overprovisioned compute go unchecked. Read on…

Posted by: Macaulay Parker

March 31, 2025

Building Trust in NLQ: How to Improve Cortex Analyst Results in Snowflake

Natural language querying (NLQ) has the potential to make data accessible to everyone — not just analysts and data engineers. But in practice, tools like Snowflake Cortex Analyst often deliver inconsistent or inaccurate results. That inconsistency erodes trust, slows adoption,…

Posted by: Macaulay Parker

March 6, 2025

Troubleshooting Snowflake Cortex Analyst: Why Your Results Aren’t Accurate

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.…

Posted by: Macaulay Parker

February 19, 2025

Announcing the Integration of AtScale and Snowflake Cortex Analyst

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…

Posted by: Jeff Curran

February 13, 2025

Simplifying Snowflake Access for Excel Users: Implementation Strategies

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…

Posted by: Macaulay Parker

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

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 20, 2023

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