February 10, 2022
How to Turn Unstructured Medical Records Into Actionable InsightsPatient documentation has come a long way since the days of doctors writing patient notes with pen and paper. Today, Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems can capture, exchange, and store medical records automatically. These advances have been significant for providers…
June 29, 2021
Building a Practical Data Fabric at ScaleIntroduction to Data Fabric We have written about the concept of the “Data Fabric” in the past. While not new, it is an increasingly cited topic to help organize the many technologies and strategies employed by enterprise data teams to…
October 30, 2020
Three Data Horror Stories Shared by the AtScale TeamDo you have a data horror story that keeps you up at night? In the spirit of Halloween, Sarah Gerweck (AtScale Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer), Chris Oshiro (Field CTO) and Dave Mariani (AtScale Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer) sat…
July 27, 2020
How To Reduce Cloud Compute Costs and Boost BI PerformanceIn our most recent webinar, Mark Stange Tregear, VP Analytics of Rakuten and Dave Mariani, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of AtScale share five tips to increase the ROI of your Snowflake investment while reducing compute costs. Mark shares Rakuten…
June 1, 2020
Analytics Leader Spotlight: Mark Stange-Tregear, Rakuten RewardsWelcome back to our “Analytics Leader Spotlight” series, where we get to know the data champions who are transforming the way that teams use and think about data. In today’s spotlight, we are excited to introduce you to Mark Stange-Tregear,…
March 18, 2020
3 Surprises in the 2020 Big Data & Analytics Maturity SurveyA new, independent survey by AtScale, Cloudera and ODPi, a Linux Foundation project, delivered some surprising results. In particular, there were 3 takeaways that are noteworthy which every enterprise should keep in mind when working through their future data strategy.…
September 17, 2019
ETL vs ELT: What’s the Difference? & How to ChooseData Loading, part of the ETL trinity, is conceptually very easy. Where it gets interesting is - at what point do you do the loading? Pre or Post the Transformation, where data is transformed from one format or structure to…
July 23, 2019
AtScale + Google BigQuery: Live Excel Connection and OLAP for a Powerful Multi-dimensional Analytics PlatformGoogle BigQuery revolutionized data warehouses with its cloud based, serverless, fully managed data platform. Turn BigQuery into a massively parallel, multi-dimensional powerhouse with AtScale. AtScale and Google BigQuery together provide a cost effective, business friendly, analytics solution that includes a…
July 3, 2019
AtScale + Snowflake: The Analytics Solution That Can Handle Data At ScaleSnowflake is a great cloud native data warehousing platform. Combine Snowflake with AtScale and you get an analytics platform that can handle the biggest data with the most complex analytics at scale. AtScale can turn your Snowflake data warehouse into…
June 14, 2019
What is Data Transformation?Data transformation is the T in ETL. Data Transformation means that data in one format is processed, either inside or outside the data store and persisted in the new required format. This transformation can take several forms, from column storage…
