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Updated July 2, 2020

One of the most important concepts any business must consider when investing in technology infrastructure or applications is ROI (return on investment). Capital is one of the most precious commodities an organization has - and often one of the most…

Updated July 1, 2020

According to Gartner, decision-making based on inconsistent data is responsible for an average of $15 million per year in losses to the enterprise. Why? Enterprises today are using a variety of tools for KPI reporting that rely on varying subsets…

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 June 25, 2020

Welcome to this week’s edition of AtScale’s Data News Roundup blog series for Thursday, June 25. In this week’s roundup, read why software productivity is on the rise; how COVID-19 data is being used for healthcare research; and the changing…

Updated June 24, 2020

You are probably familiar with the concept of a semantic layer. According to Wikipedia, “a semantic layer is a business representation of corporate data that helps end users access data autonomously using common business terms. A semantic layer maps complex…

Updated June 16, 2020

The first time that we were aware of COVID-19 was in December of 2019. Little was known about the virus and there wasn’t a lot of data to support any claims. Fast forward to the present day, we have the…

Updated June 11, 2020

Hi everyone! Welcome back to our weekly “Data News Roundup” for June 11th, 2020. We saw a handful of interesting trend-focused pieces pop this week, including Gartner releasing its Top 10 trends in data and analytics for this year, a…

Updated June 10, 2020

COVID-19 data is all around us. How are we to make sense of it? In our recent webinar with the experts from Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Tableau, we shared how public health officials and policy makers are…

Updated June 9, 2020

As we all rise to COVID-19 challenges, advanced data analytics is empowering us to make key, data-driven decisions – guiding all of us to a better tomorrow together. To help data and analytics learn more, AtScale has added new resources…

Updated June 4, 2020

We’ve all had to quickly adapt to remote working during the pandemic. Businesses have, for the most part, done a good job of adapting to this new environment – but it has been a process full of ups and downs.…