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Updated June 23, 2022

Despite 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…

Updated April 26, 2022

As 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…

Updated March 22, 2022

As 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…

Updated November 29, 2021

AtScale was conceived as an independent semantic layer for data and analytics for business intelligence users. Leading BI teams use AtScale to create enterprise metrics hubs, enabling self-serve access to a consistent source of metrics that are tied to data…

Updated November 1, 2021

Before 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…

Updated November 4, 2020

Where 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…

Updated August 18, 2020

Throughout 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…

Updated June 29, 2020

*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…

Updated April 15, 2020

In 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…

Updated April 13, 2020

It 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…