Updated August 18, 2020
Introducing AtScale 2020.3: Cloud OLAP Without “Owning” the DataThroughout 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…
Updated August 7, 2020
How to Create an Enterprise AI Strategy: If Your Company Isn’t Good at Analytics, It’s Not Ready for AIRecently, AtScale participated in the Azure Global Summer 2020 AI/ML DataFest. In the session, Dave Mariani, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at AtScale and Daniel Gray, VP of Solutions Engineering at AtScale explained how succeeding in AI requires being good…
Updated July 27, 2020
How To Reduce Cloud Compute Costs and Boost BI PerformanceIn 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…
Updated July 24, 2020
Five Things People Hate About the CloudThere 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…
Updated July 17, 2020
Four Ways to Implement a Universal Semantic LayerIf 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:…
Updated July 2, 2020
A Capitalist’s Approach to Analytics & PerformanceOne 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…
Updated July 1, 2020
The Cost of Bad DataAccording 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…
Updated 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…
Updated June 24, 2020
Use These Four Resources to Become a Universal Semantic Layer ProYou 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…
Updated 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…
Updated April 15, 2020
When Everything You Do Becomes Data, OLAP is More Important than EverIn the modern day world, data is created with every step you take. Buying coffee with your credit card? Data. Navigating with Google Maps? Scrolling Instagram? Data! With the world becoming increasingly data-driven, the more you know, the better you…
Updated April 13, 2020
Free Access to AtScale’s COVID-19 Cloud OLAP ModelIt has been a few weeks since my last note to the AtScale community about our commitment to customers and partners during this unprecedented time of COVID-19. First and foremost, the thoughts and prayers of the AtScale family are with…
