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Updated January 25, 2022

Many organizations still view machine learning and big data analytics through a technical prism. Business leaders know that the fundamental value proposition of these methodologies is in achieving better business outcomes.  I had the pleasure to discuss this topic with…

Updated January 21, 2022

*This post was originally published by the author, Anurag Singh. You can view the original post here. Making data accessible to everyone within an organization is a challenge that most companies face. For example, data scientists generate forecasts and predictions…

Updated December 14, 2021

*Author’s Note This article was originally posted as a LinkedIn article by Kirk Borne. Kirk Borne is the Chief Science Officer at Data Prime and has been an influential globally recognized leader in the data science space for 20 years.…

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 3, 2021

“Speed of Thought Analytics” is a somewhat vague term that refers to the user experience of people interacting with data. Generically it can be taken to mean analytics performance that supports the navigation of data at a pace in sync…

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…