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Semantic Layer

Updated October 11, 2022

Using data has become all the rage — there is hardly any organization that does not have a data and analytics team to understand their customer preferences better and gain a competitive advantage. As per a survey by Forrester, 63%…

Updated October 6, 2022

AtScale partnered with the DBT Institute to research current sentiment among analytics professionals on the impact a semantic layer has on enterprise analytics. The recently released report, “The Business Impact of Using a Semantic Layer for AI and BI,” examines…

Updated October 4, 2022

More than 10 years after the explosion of big data analytics technologies, data scientists still spend nearly half their time on data preparation. Despite all their hard work preparing data for use, 86% of the data used to create insights…

Updated September 29, 2022

It’s hard to believe that just 15 years ago, big data and cloud technology emerged with the introduction of Hadoop and cloud vendor offerings. Over the past 5 years, most enterprises have moved to the cloud, motivated by the dual…

Updated September 22, 2022

The influx of data has increased exponentially over the last decade. As illustrated below, data creation is expected to grow by 86% by 2025 due to an increased digital footprint during the pandemic. [caption id="attachment_20629" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/871513/worldwide-data-created/[/caption] Many…

Updated September 20, 2022

AtScale had the opportunity to collaborate with Andrew Brust, Founder & CEO of Blue Badge Insights, to explore the history of the semantic layer concept. This post is a summary of his perspective published in a recent whitepaper, The Semantic…

Updated September 13, 2022

It’s official! We're excited to announce the full lineup of speakers, sessions, and sponsors for the 2022 Semantic Layer Summit on September 28th. It is a FREE, fully virtual one-day event from 10:30AM - 4:30PM ET. There's a lot to…

Updated September 8, 2022

In my talk with AI Evangelist, Ben Taylor, we discussed how to use a Semantic Layer and augmented intelligence (AI) to bridge the gap between AI and business intelligence (BI) teams to drive business impact.  DataRobot is a powerful enterprise…

Updated September 1, 2022

This post written by Zach Eslami in collaboration with Jeff Curran.  Storytelling is an art and a skill. Any good storyteller knows it’s always tricky finding that sweet spot to explain a concept so that it’s detailed, but doesn’t overwhelm.…

Updated August 25, 2022

John K. Thompson, Analytics Leader, Innovator, and Author of Building Analytics Teams and Data for All. Currently, when talking about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the context of enterprise class, commercial companies, it is more of an art than a science.…

Updated August 11, 2022

I recently hosted a live customer webinar with a Forbes Top 50 FinTech company that uses AtScale to support their data science initiatives. Trumid’s senior data engineer Colin Reid joined me to share insights into the problems his team is…

Updated August 4, 2022

AtScale’s partnership with Snowflake has dramatically expanded our customers' data processing capabilities — guiding them toward analytics modernization. From delivering analysis-ready data to extending legacy tool services through dialect support, data practitioners can now deliver blazing-fast dimensional analysis to enable…