Updated June 17, 2026
It’s Got to Be the Semantic Layer, BabyAtScale's Dave Mariani and Snowflake's Carl Perry on why governed semantics, not a smarter LLM, is what makes AI agents trustworthy. For years, business intelligence ran on a human workaround. When two reports disagreed about "revenue," a trained BI analyst…
Updated June 11, 2026
How Anthropic’s AI Accuracy Went from 21% to 95%The fix wasn't a smarter model. It was a semantic layer. Anthropic's data science and engineering team runs its internal analytics on Claude, and this week, they published the accuracy figures. Without a semantic layer, the answers were right 21%…
Updated June 11, 2026
Power BI Was Built as a Client. Stop Using It as a Foundation.Microsoft wants to own your semantics. We built the universal layer that keeps them yours. Power BI is a strong BI client. It was never an enterprise semantic layer, and the gap between those two jobs is now showing up…
Updated June 10, 2026
Your AI Isn’t Expensive. It’s Guessing.Inside a Tier 1 bank's $9-million-a-year AI rediscovery tax, and the architectural fix that cut compute costs by as much as 21,903x. Every time an analyst at a Tier 1 bank asks, "What was revenue in the Northeast last quarter?"…
Updated June 9, 2026
A Tech Power Player in the Year the Semantic Layer Broke ThroughChris Lynch has been saying the same thing for years. The market just caught up. For years, I’ve been a board member of AtScale, and Chris Lynch said the same thing with each meeting: AI is changing everything for semantic…
Updated June 4, 2026
Why Semantics, Not Metadata, Are the Key to Business Context for AIFive queries. $17.93 with an unguided LLM. Less than a tenth of a cent with a semantic layer. That 21,000x cost gap, measured by the commercial banking division of a Tier 1 multinational bank, is what happens when AI has…
Updated June 4, 2026
AtScale for Snowflake Semantic Views: Governed Metrics, Everywhere Your Business RunsExecutive Summary Snowflake Semantic Views centralize governed metric definitions inside Snowflake, but Microsoft tools like Power BI and Excel do not natively consume those definitions. AtScale for Snowflake Semantic Views XMLA Endpoint extends governed Snowflake metrics to Power BI and…
Updated June 4, 2026
Snowflake Summit 2026: Governed Semantic Views for CoCo, CoWork, Power BI, and ExcelHow Snowflake Semantic Views reach CoCo, CoWork, Power BI, and Excel without leaving the platform Executive Summary At Snowflake Summit 2026, Snowflake and AtScale introduced a new way to extend governed Snowflake Semantic Views to CoCo, CoWork, Power BI, and…
Updated June 3, 2026
A Guide to Semantic Layers for Snowflake CoCo and CoWorkHow Snowflake Semantic Views reach CoWork, CoCo, Power BI, and Excel without leaving the platform. At Snowflake Summit 26, Snowflake renamed Cortex Code to CoCo and turned Snowflake Intelligence into CoWork, a personal agent for every knowledge worker. The headline…
Updated June 2, 2026
Snowflake Partnered with AtScale for a Reason: Your Semantic Layer Is Too Important to SurrenderSnowflake has embedded AtScale as the only semantic layer in its platform, extending Semantic Views to Power BI and Excel, so they get the same accurate metrics your AI gets. Snowflake, whose thousands of customers include Capital One, Toyota, and…
