March 22, 2022
Replace Your SSAS Capability in the Cloud with Modernized AnalyticsAs customers shift their data infrastructure to cloud data platforms such as Google BigQuery, Snowflake, or Databricks, AtScale is the only provider of a semantic layer and dimensional analysis capability that accelerates performance with no need to extract data from…
November 1, 2021
Why You Need Next-Gen OLAPBefore You Break Up with OLAP While relationships can be challenging at times, they are hopefully worth the effort. When your significant other repeatedly leaves the cap off the toothpaste or leaves dirty dishes in the sink, it might drive…
November 4, 2020
The Three Opportunities for Cloud OLAP to Improve Enterprise AnalyticsWhere is the industry going in terms of large scale data and machine learning data? We’ve made fantastic strides over the last five-eight years, but business-centric analytics has not reduced in value. Much of the business intelligence and data science…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
