August 18, 2020

Introducing AtScale 2020.3: Cloud OLAP Without “Owning” the Data

Throughout AtScale’s history, our focus is to provide our customers with a business-friendly data interface which both abstracts away the complexity of the underlying data model and autonomously builds Acceleration Structures to optimize queries (performance and compute). As the data…

Posted by: Chris Oshiro

July 27, 2020

How To Reduce Cloud Compute Costs and Boost BI Performance

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…

Posted by: Kayla Chiara

July 24, 2020

Five Things People Hate About the Cloud

There are preconceived notions of what life will be like for someone when they switch to the Cloud. While there are many indisputable advantages, have your umbrella ready. Why do I say this? In this blog post, I share five…

Posted by: Chris Oshiro

July 17, 2020

Four Ways to Implement a Universal Semantic Layer

If you have been following our content for a while, you are most likely familiar with the concept of a Universal Semantic Layer™. What are the options for delivering one? In a recent webinar, I shared four ways.  Option #1:…

Posted by: Dave Mariani

July 2, 2020

A Capitalist’s Approach to Analytics & Performance

One of the most important concepts any business must consider when investing in technology infrastructure or applications is ROI (return on investment). Capital is one of the most precious commodities an organization has - and often one of the most…

Posted by: Chris Lynch

July 1, 2020

The Cost of Bad Data

According to Gartner, decision-making based on inconsistent data is responsible for an average of $15 million per year in losses to the enterprise. Why? Enterprises today are using a variety of tools for KPI reporting that rely on varying subsets…

Posted by: Kayla Chiara

June 29, 2020

The 1990’s Called, They Want Their OLAP Back

*Author’s Note: This is an update to the blog post “The 1990’s Called, They Want Their OLAP Back,” originally published in June 2020. For the modern cloud-first data pro, the terms “OLAP” and “cube” are dirty words. That said, many…

Posted by: Dave Mariani

June 24, 2020

Use These Four Resources to Become a Universal Semantic Layer Pro

You are probably familiar with the concept of a semantic layer. According to Wikipedia, “a semantic layer is a business representation of corporate data that helps end users access data autonomously using common business terms. A semantic layer maps complex…

Posted by: Kayla Chiara

May 4, 2020

Self-Service Business Intelligence. What’s Holding You Back?

Imagine the scenario. You are a marketing manager and you want to get a list of customers to focus on in your next upsell campaign and your primary BI tool is Excel. You are happily slicing and dicing the data…

Posted by: Andy Mott