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Updated April 19, 2019

On February 11th, 2019, Gartner released its latest magic quadrant for analytics and business intelligence platforms. As we’ve done since 2016, we will highlight who Gartner considers the market leaders to be, as well as any notable changes and constants…

Updated March 7, 2019

Every year, many of you reach out to thank us for our analysis of Gartner's famous Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence. Thank you all for your feedback! This year, we've decided to go one step further: in addition to our…

Updated March 7, 2019

Yesterday, Gartner published the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence. The MQ research for BI has been in existence for close to a decade. It is THE document of reference for buyers of Business Intelligence technology. At face value, not…

Updated March 7, 2019

Five years ago we had a hypothesis that Business Intelligence (BI) needed a reboot. We planned to take the best parts of original BI ideas and merge them with modern engineering and data analytics to build a platform for delivering…

Updated March 6, 2019

March is gone and Spring has arrived, at least for many of us. A lot happened in March, and we certainly don't want you to miss out on what’s big on big data. Without further ado, here is what you…

Updated March 6, 2019

Just this week, AtScale published the Q4 Edition of our BI-on-Hadoop Benchmark, and we found 1.5X to 4X performance improvements across SQL engines Hive, Spark, Impala and Presto for Business Intelligence and Analytic workloads on Hadoop. Bottom line, the benchmark…

Updated March 6, 2019

The rapidly exploding demand for business intelligence on big data is nothing new - this trend is clearly indicated in recent Big Data Maturity surveys. As shown in the graphic below, 75% of respondents are planning on deploying BI workloads…

Updated March 6, 2019

Yesterday, Gartner published the 2017 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence. The MQ research for BI has been in existence for close to a decade; it is THE document of reference for buyers of Business Intelligence technology. Contrary to last year’s…

Updated March 6, 2019

It may seem like only yesterday that we said goodbye to 2017, but we are almost half-way through 2018. Big things in Big Data happened in the month of April. Many of us watched Mark Zuckerberg testify in front of…

Updated March 4, 2019

Summer is fast approaching and big data is (still) growing. While you were preparing for the coming hot summer days, you may have missed some of May’s big data news. Without further ado, here is what you might have missed…