Updated November 1, 2021

Why You Need Next-Gen OLAP

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…

Posted by: Dave Mariani

Updated September 22, 2021

How a Semantic Layer Turns Excel into a Sophisticated BI Platform

Microsoft Excel has been the workhorse analytics tool for generations of business analysts, financial modelers, and data hacks. It delivers the ultimate flexibility to manipulate data, create new metrics with cell calculations, build live visualizations and slice and dice data.…

Posted by: Josh Epstein

Updated June 5, 2020

Excel with Google BigQuery

I hear it all the time. Many enterprises hate Excel because it’s an analytics “free for all” but the business users love it and can’t live without it. No matter what BI tools an enterprise may have, ultimately, that last…

Posted by: Dave Mariani

Updated April 20, 2020

Excelling at Modern Analytics

Having spent the better part of 20 years in data analytics, I consider myself fairly savvy in the world of data transformation, complex financial models, and best practices for data visualization. As someone knee deep in the latest and greatest…

Posted by: Chris Oshiro

Updated November 19, 2019

Employee Spotlight: Martin Carrillo

At AtScale, we're only as successful as our customers. Everyday, we strive to make sure that our customers are equipped with the right tools and support that they need to succeed. Who is behind these operations? Today we introduce you…

Posted by: Kayla Chiara

Updated March 4, 2019

The 1990’s called, they want their OLAP back.

In 1992, Arbor Software shipped the first version of Essbase. Which stands for Extended Spreadsheet Database. In 1998, Microsoft shipped Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. The time of multi-’dimensional’ databases had come into full being and almost 30 years later…

Posted by: Mike Haynes