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October 28, 2021

There’s been a lot of news lately about semantic layers. Google and Tableau announced their plans to connect Tableau to Looker’s semantic layer. It’s great to see the industry recognize the importance of the semantic layer in the new cloud…

September 22, 2021

Microsoft Excel has been the workhorse analytics tool for generations of business analysts, financial modelers, and data hacks. It delivers the ultimate flexibility to manipulate data, create new metrics with cell calculations, build live visualizations and slice and dice data.…

September 14, 2021

In a recent post, we discussed how a semantic layer helps scale data science and enterprise AI programs. With massive adoption of Snowflake’s cloud data platform, many organizations are shifting analytics and data science workloads to the Snowflake cloud. Leveraging the…

September 13, 2021

AtScale has been helping bridge Enterprise BI and Data Science for years, recently announcing AtScale AI-Link to simplify access to our semantic layer platform with a Python library designed for data scientists. We clearly see an explosion of interest around…

September 9, 2021

Data governance is a broad topic with a lot of players offering commentary and strategy across the data and analytics space. Governance isn’t only about security and access control, or who can access what; it’s also about how data is…

August 17, 2021

Turning raw data into analysis-ready data sets for Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics teams is a challenge for many organizations. While collecting and storing information is easier than ever, delivering data sets that are fully prepped for analysts and decision…

August 12, 2021

Using AtScale to establish a semantic layer on Amazon Redshift delivers several important benefits to modern data and analytics teams. As a single source of governed metrics, and dimensions, AtScale extends the value of Redshift for business intelligence and data…

August 10, 2021

Modern organizations increasingly rely on their analytics programs to help them stay competitive. And, while most every organization is leveraging the massive amounts of data available from their enterprise applications and from 3rd party data providers, it is increasingly common…

July 27, 2021

One of the defining themes of digital transformation is the proliferation of AI-driven insights across all enterprise business processes. With the growth of cloud data platforms, the complexity of managing big data has been radically reduced. The availability of powerful…

July 20, 2021

In a previous post, we talked about using AtScale’s semantic layer to merge Foursquare Places data with first-party data. By blending third-and first-party data, organizations can improve their decision-making capabilities using advanced analytics and predictive data modeling. In this post,…