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Cloud Analytics Optimization

Updated March 8, 2022

When it comes to effective consumption of data for business insights, there are six key capabilities: data, access, model, analyze, consume, and insights. AtScale’s Data and Analytics Maturity Model Workshop explains how organizations can build the skills and knowledge necessary…

Updated December 2, 2025

Many companies face challenges in developing a roadmap for data, insights, and analytics. This blog stresses how an enterprise data strategy is a critical guidepost for articulating an effective set of use cases and a clear roadmap that scales with…

Updated November 3, 2021

“Speed of Thought Analytics” is a somewhat vague term that refers to the user experience of people interacting with data. Generically it can be taken to mean analytics performance that supports the navigation of data at a pace in sync…

Updated July 13, 2021

The use of data aggregations (i.e. aggregates) to accelerate query performance is a common practice for data engineering teams, but the question remains how to balance resources like time and compute consumption in the aggregation process. Rather than relying on…

Updated June 22, 2021

Late last year, Gartner published their first Market Guide for Analytics Query Accelerators (available with Gartner Subscription).  They loosely define this broad set of technologies as providing “[query] optimization on top of semantically flexible data stores, typically associated with data…

Updated April 21, 2021

We’re living in an age where data drives organizational success. In the past, most organizations could get by with a central IT team doling out reports and dashboards to business users. That just doesn’t cut it anymore. The self-serve analytics…

Updated April 8, 2021

In our most recent webinar, four data-driven leaders from Cardinal Health, Slickdeals, bol.com and Wayfair joined us for a panel where they discussed how they are scaling smarter decision-making across their organizations and making data more accessible as a strategic…

Updated January 27, 2021

Data is everywhere. With dozens of SaaS sales,  marketing, and other business applications in use today, companies are witnessing an exponential rise in the volume of data they can access, leverage, and exploit. The same applies to information streams and…

Updated November 4, 2020

Where is the industry going in terms of large scale data and machine learning data? We’ve made fantastic strides over the last five-eight years, but business-centric analytics has not reduced in value. Much of the business intelligence and data science…

Updated October 26, 2020

In our most recent webinar, Matt Hartwig, Associate Director of Data Infrastructure at Wayfair and Dave Mariani, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of AtScale shared the techniques Wayfair uses to make data a competitive advantage. Wayfair is an e-commerce leader…

Updated October 12, 2020

Between March and October, we’ve witnessed just how fast time moves. Before we know it, holiday songs will be playing on the radio and you’ll be rewatching your favorite Hallmark films. For e-commerce and retail, the upcoming holiday season is…

Updated July 27, 2020

In our most recent webinar, Mark Stange Tregear, VP Analytics of Rakuten and Dave Mariani, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of AtScale share five tips to increase the ROI of your Snowflake investment while reducing compute costs.  Mark shares Rakuten…