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Updated March 4, 2019

In the world of Business Intelligence and Big Data there continue to be a number of exciting innovations as new and improved options for processing large data sets appear on the market. You may be familiar with AtScale’s BI-on-Hadoop Benchmarks…

Updated March 4, 2019

If your team has been trying to connect your Business Intelligence (BI) tools to your Hadoop environment, you're familiar with the typical issues: performance, security and the inability to model the data in a way that business users like to…

Updated March 4, 2019

When we started AtScale five years ago, there were just five of us, driven by the desire to change the way enterprises deliver analytics to the business. AtScale was born out of necessity. At Yahoo!, my team and I had…

Updated March 4, 2019

Research shows that the average enterprise has at least 6 to 10 Business Intelligence tools. Microsoft Excel, the world's most prevalent analysis tool is used by 1 Billion users. Other companies like Tableau, Qliktech, MicroStrategy or Business Objects have had…

Updated March 4, 2019

Yesterday, Gartner published the 2016 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence. The MQ research for BI has been in existence for close to a decade. It is THE document of reference for buyers of Business Intelligence technology. At face value, not…

Updated March 4, 2019

Google the word “CDO” today and your search will mostly results return articles about the “Chief Digital Officer”. However, if you came to this blog, you’re probably looking for guidance on the other title this acronym refers to: “The Chief…

Updated March 4, 2019

Data Lake Intelligence with AtScale In my recent Data Lake 2.0 article, I described how the worlds of big data and cloud are coming together to reshape the concept of the data lake. The data lake is an important element…

Updated March 4, 2019

2018 Dataworks Summit is just around the corner. As you’re preparing your travel to San Jose, it’s time to think about how to maximize your time at the Dataworks Summit. Dataworks Summit will take place from June 18 to June…

Updated February 12, 2019

Despite the existence of a plethora of data analytics tools, Microsoft Excel is still the preferred choice for many analysts working with data. With the continued growth of data, as well as migration to the cloud, accessing the data necessary…

Updated February 12, 2019

The movement of analytical workloads to cloud data warehouses such as Google BigQuery, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, and Microsoft Azure is a trend that will only continue to grow. The performance and cost benefits of these cloud providers compared to legacy…