Updated March 4, 2019
What You Might Have Missed in June 2018As the World Cup is kicking off, some of us might be spending a lot of sleepless nights (or waking up earlier) to watch the games. Here is a fun fact: the most anticipated match is from Group H, Japan…
Updated March 4, 2019
Three Trends From Dataworks Summit 2018We did it again! The AtScale team was present at the Dataworks Summit 2018 in San Jose, California. We hope you had the opportunity to attend some, if not all, of the great sessions that we suggested. If you missed…
Updated March 4, 2019
TECH TALK: Solving the Unrelated Dimension Dilemma. A Connect the Dots Story of Sorts.Wouldn’t it be great if you could load all of your data from a single file into an Excel pivot table for easy analysis? Unfortunately, this approach isn’t usually viable when dealing with complex business analytics and big data. Take…
Updated March 4, 2019
TECH TALK: Scale-Out Business Intelligence with HadoopThe growing popularity of big data analytics coupled with the adoption of technologies like Spark and Hadoop have allowed enterprises to collect an ever increasing amount of data - in terms of breadth and volume. At the same time, the…
Updated March 4, 2019
TECH TALK: First-Child & Last-Child Measures in HadoopAs more and more enterprises adopt Hadoop as their next generation data platform, the demands of traditional enterprise workloads, including support for Business Intelligence use cases, are creating challenges. While Hadoop excels at low-cost distributed storage and parallel data processing,…
Updated March 4, 2019
It’s Always “Day 1”: AtScale’s New CEOWhen we started AtScale five years ago, there were just five of us, driven by the desire to change the way enterprises deliver analytics to the business. AtScale was born out of necessity. At Yahoo!, my team and I had…
Updated March 4, 2019
How To Load Data Into HadoopIn our last segment, we learned about Hadoop's various components and how they work together as a Big Data Management platform. The next key step to understand is how your team can load data into Hadoop. Many are under the…
Updated March 4, 2019
How to Improve BI Performance on HadoopI was late to the game when I unboxed my first iPhone in 2008. As a mechanical engineering student at the time, it wasn’t an easy decision to spend 2 months’ food budget on a “non-essential gadget”. Thankfully, it turned…
Updated March 4, 2019
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence (BI) 2016: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly…Yesterday, Gartner published the 2016 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 4, 2019
2018 Dataworks Sessions You Should Check Out2018 Dataworks Summit is just around the corner. As you’re preparing your travel to San Jose, it’s time to think about how to maximize your time at the Dataworks Summit. Dataworks Summit will take place from June 18 to June…
