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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 October 28, 2021

There’s been a lot of news lately about semantic layers. Google and Tableau announced their plans to connect Tableau to Looker’s semantic layer. It’s great to see the industry recognize the importance of the semantic layer in the new cloud…

Updated October 12, 2021

This is the first of a three part blog series discussing the power of AtScale and Snowflake to help enterprise data science teams scale and leverage the agility of a cloud based infrastructure.  We have written before about the power…

Updated October 7, 2021

No matter how sophisticated and agile an enterprise BI program may be, there is always a need to go deeper than canned reports and dashboards. Business analysts’ primary role is to figure out what the data is saying and support decision…

Updated September 30, 2021

Last week, AtScale announced new Excel integrations and we blogged about the ability to use Excel as a powerful business intelligence platform.  In this post, we will cover the basics of using AtScale to connect Excel to a cloud data…

Updated September 28, 2021

In the previous blog in this series on Excel + AtScale, we demonstrated how to connect Amazon Redshift to an Excel Pivot-Table. AtScale is able to leverage Microsoft’s MultiDimensional eXpressions (MDX) protocol to natively deliver a dimensional analysis experience to…

Updated September 22, 2021

Microsoft Excel has been the workhorse analytics tool for generations of business analysts, financial modelers, and data hacks. It delivers the ultimate flexibility to manipulate data, create new metrics with cell calculations, build live visualizations and slice and dice data.…

Updated September 14, 2021

In a recent post, we discussed how a semantic layer helps scale data science and enterprise AI programs. With massive adoption of Snowflake’s cloud data platform, many organizations are shifting analytics and data science workloads to the Snowflake cloud. Leveraging the…

Updated September 13, 2021

AtScale has been helping bridge Enterprise BI and Data Science for years, recently announcing AtScale AI-Link to simplify access to our semantic layer platform with a Python library designed for data scientists. We clearly see an explosion of interest around…

Updated September 9, 2021

Data governance is a broad topic with a lot of players offering commentary and strategy across the data and analytics space. Governance isn’t only about security and access control, or who can access what; it’s also about how data is…