Updated April 8, 2020
3 Things to Watch Out For with Google BigQuery for Cloud AnalyticsHave you either chosen Google BigQuery as your cloud data warehouse platform or you are considering doing so? The good news is that Google BigQuery is a great data warehouse platform that I highly recommend. However, there are some major…
Updated April 7, 2020
Watch These 4 Videos to Become an OLAP ExpertInformation is more accessible today than it ever has been before. With online learning technologies and resources, we’re seeing that it’s a reality for anyone to become a self-taught expert in almost any subject. While we’re all spending these next…
Updated April 1, 2020
OLAP, MOLAP, ROLAP? COLAP? Why Should BI Care? Which Should You Choose?OLAP is the acronym for OnLine Analytical Processing. Database researcher, E. F. Codd, coined the term "on-line analytical processing" (OLAP) in a whitepaper published by Computerworld in 1993 that set out twelve rules for analytic systems. The term OLAP was…
Updated March 16, 2020
How Distributed, Dynamic and Diverse Data has Transformed Cloud Data AnalyticsBig Data is a Competitive Advantage Big data plays a critical role in modernizing analytics. Analytics are conducted at a much more granular level than ever before because we can capture and save much more data than ever before. As…
Updated March 9, 2020
3 Things About Data Virtualization You Might Not KnowData virtualization is not new. It was born in the naughts when data was still small by today’s standards. Unlike today, most data was stored in relational databases from a few vendors like Oracle, Microsoft and IBM. Oh my, how…
Updated March 4, 2020
New Survey Shows Hybrid Cloud, Data Governance and Data Virtualization are Major Trends for the EnterpriseA new independent survey by AtScale, the intelligent data virtualization provider for advanced analytics, in collaboration with Cloudera and ODPi, a Linux Foundation Project, reveals that a majority of enterprises choose multi-cloud strategies; want better integrated security and governance for…
Updated January 15, 2020
Digital Transformation Arrives with Next-Gen Intelligent Data Virtualization91% of businesses today are facing persistent barriers to digital transformation and are looking to make major investments in security and compliance, multi-cloud, self-service analytics and artificial intelligence. Only too aware of operating in a 'transform or die' landscape, performance…
Updated January 13, 2020
Data Liberation: The Rise of True Self-Service AnalyticsIn an ever-accelerating information age, the companies most likely to succeed are the ones that not only glean the most profitable insights from their data, but do it faster and more nimbly than their competitors. In fact, according to ESG,…
Updated January 8, 2020
How to Achieve True Big Data Analytics with Today’s DataIn order for big data analytics to work optimally, data must be consumerized–that is, it must be readily available to all stakeholders across the organization in a self-service manner, while ensuring reliability and security. What are the most common barriers…
Updated December 23, 2019
Security & Governance in ActionSecurity and governance are top of mind in an era where data is everywhere and bad actors are trying to steal it. But it’s not just hackers we need to worry about. Providing inappropriate data access to people inside the…
Updated December 17, 2019
Big Data Analytics in the Cloud for Today’s Distributed and Diverse DataLast week, my good friend David Menninger and I discussed the state of Big Data analytics and its future in our webinar “How Distributed, Diverse Data has Transformed Big Data Analytics”. As the Research Director at Ventana, David highlighted some…
Updated November 21, 2019
AtScale: A Better SSASMy co-founders and I started AtScale to change the trajectory of the analytics tools of our day. As consumers of tools like Microstrategy, Qlik and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) at Yahoo!, we were often disappointed by the complexity of…
