July 25, 2025
SSAS vs. Snowflake: A Comparative Analysis for Modern Semantic ModelingAs organizations shift their analytics infrastructure to the cloud, many are evaluating whether to replace SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) with Snowflake. This analysis compares the two platforms through the lens of semantic modeling — highlighting the strengths and limitations…
July 1, 2025
SSAS Cube Migration to Snowflake: Complete RoadmapMany organizations are moving away from legacy SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) toward modern, cloud-based platforms like Snowflake. But there's a catch: SSAS isn’t just a storage engine — it’s a powerful semantic layer. Without a plan to replace that…
April 22, 2025
How Vodafone Portugal Transformed Telecom Analytics with AtScale’s Semantic Layer + CelfocusIn telecommunications, data is abundant, but turning it into useful insights can be extremely difficult. Communication Service Providers (CSPs) operate in a fast-paced, highly competitive market, where success depends on efficiently managing massive volumes of data quickly and reliably. But…
April 9, 2025
Modernizing OLAP for the Cloud: Why Legacy BI Needs a Semantic UpgradeOrganizations that have relied on OLAP cubes for years are hitting a wall. The traditional OLAP approach—great for fast, multidimensional analysis—was never designed for the modern cloud data ecosystem. And with the rise of cloud data platforms like Snowflake, Databricks,…
March 21, 2024
Democratizing Your Lakehouse to Excel Users with Databricks SQL and AtScaleWhat’s The Deal With Excel? Excel is the most predominant BI tool in the enterprise because of its versatility, ease of use, and range of capabilities. It is the tool of choice for almost a billion analysts worldwide. However, whenever…
September 26, 2023
Modernize Legacy BI and OLAP Workloads with AtScale and Google BigQueryThis post is authored in partnership with Naveen Punjabi, Director of Analytics and Data Science Partnerships at Google Cloud. An original version of the post was initially published on the Google Cloud Blog. A partnership that brings new economics and…
November 3, 2022
Modernize Your SSAS Architecture with Databricks and AtScaleThis post was written in collaboration with Swaroop Oggu, Solutions Architect at Databricks. Dimensional analysis is an important tool for building analytics-oriented data products (e.g. interactive dashboards) based on data assets managed in a lakehouse. Historically, dimensional analysis has been…
September 20, 2022
Why the Semantic Layer Is Critical to the Hub-and-Spoke Analytics ModelAtScale 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…
June 23, 2022
How to Use Excel for Analytics in the CloudDespite having a billion users, Excel is not always thought of as a business intelligence (BI) tool. Yet Excel remains by far the predominant BI consumption platform in enterprise data because its formulas and functions make it a powerful tool…
April 26, 2022
How to Scale SSAS-Style Analytics with Databricks + AtScaleAs organizations become more data-centric, companies are bringing in data from more sources and storing more volume. That's only added more fuel to the ongoing data cloud 'platform wars', particularly with Databricks and Snowflake. With some exciting benchmark results recently…
