April 25, 2023

3 Surprising Ways NLP Changes How We Interact With Data

This blog is part of a series from Tobias Zwingmann, Managing Partner at RAPYD.AI. RAPYD.AI lets you easily and quickly build fully-functional AI prototypes or AI MVPs powered by state of the art AI-services from Google, Amazon and Microsoft. Tobias…

Posted by: Tobias Zwingmann

April 13, 2023

Actionable Data Insights for Improved Business Results

This blog was written by Dr. Prashanth Southekal, the Managing Principal of DBP Institute (www.dbp­ institute.com), a data and analytics consulting, research, and education firm. He is a Consultant, Author, and Professor.  Author’s Note: This is an update to the…

Posted by: Prashanth Southekal, PhD, MBA

April 11, 2023

Empowering FinOps With a Semantic Layer

I confess. I had heard the term FinOps batted around for the past few years, but I hadn’t really absorbed its significance.  I started paying more attention after reading some research from Gartner Analyst Adam Ronthal. I was able to…

Posted by: Josh Epstein

April 7, 2023

Using a Semantic Layer to Replace SSAS and SSAS Cubes

AtScale connects to data where it lies. Whether it’s stored in a data lake like Hadoop or a cloud data warehouse like Snowflake, the data stays where it is. There is no pre-compute, data aggregation, or extracts, which means you…

Posted by: Arthur Lindow

April 3, 2023

Three Data Analytics Strategies from the 2023 Gartner Summit

I was recently at the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in Orlando. As a product leader, it was a great opportunity to meet with many chief data and analytics officers. I also had the privilege of chatting with many data…

Posted by: Elif Tutuk

February 28, 2023

How a Semantic Layer Supports Data Storytelling Projects

Data storytelling is the process of using data to tell a story and make it more accessible and understandable to a wide audience. Visualizing data and using narrative techniques are important elements of data storytelling. A semantic layer can quickly…

Posted by: Ravit Jain

February 23, 2023

Power BI DirectQuery vs. Import Mode

This blog is part of a series on Microsoft’s BI and Analytics tools from Greg Deckler, Vice President at a global IT services firm who leads a practice specializing in Microsoft technologies such as Dynamics 365, Power BI, and Azure.…

Posted by: Greg Deckler

February 16, 2023

Four BI and Data Science Best Practices To Bring Teams Closer Together

This blog is part of a series from Tobias Zwingmann, Managing Partner at RAPYD.AI. RAPYD.AI lets you easily and quickly build fully-functional AI prototypes or AI MVPs powered by state of the art AI-services from Google, Amazon and Microsoft. Tobias…

Posted by: Tobias Zwingmann

February 7, 2023

Building Guardrails into your Data Mesh with Analytics Governance

As we covered in the first three parts of our data mesh series, a successful data mesh approach empowers domain experts to build their own data products with centrally-governed building blocks. And to enable this model, organizations need to facilitate…

Posted by: Elif Tutuk