November 18, 2019

Leaving Las Vegas: Recap of the 2019 Tableau Conference

Wow! What a week we had with one of the biggest data communities in the world at the Tableau Conference in Las Vegas. This year’s event had about 20,000 data-driven people from all industries and all-sized organizations. And, we were…

Posted by: Carole Gunst

November 4, 2019

Join AtScale in Las Vegas at the 2019 Tableau Conference

AtScale is joining one of the biggest data communities in the world at the Tableau Conference that takes place from November 12-15 in Las Vegas. We’re looking forward to meeting over 20,000 data-driven people like you from all industries and…

Posted by: Carole Gunst

June 11, 2019

In search of $DATA

It’s been an incredible week for consolidation in the pursuit of analytical excellence. Google acquired Looker for roughly $2.6B, and today Salesforce acquired Tableau for nearly $16B. Today’s move is the combination of two juggernauts in their respective markets. Salesforce…

Posted by: Chris Lynch

May 6, 2019

Seamless Adoption of Snowflake in the Cloud: Rakuten with AtScale

Every new enterprise solution introduces a multitude of problems. For the enterprise, the solution that has introduced the most complexity to the business has been cloud transformation. According to IDG, 73% of organizations have at least one application, or a…

Posted by: Cort Johnson

April 19, 2019

Analyzing Gartner’s 2019 Magic Quadrant for Analytics

On February 11th, 2019, Gartner released its latest magic quadrant for analytics and business intelligence platforms. As we’ve done since 2016, we will highlight who Gartner considers the market leaders to be, as well as any notable changes and constants…

Posted by: Dan Schulwolf

March 6, 2019

Happy Data = Happy Users? Maximizing AtScale and Tableau

Congratulations! Your data is controlled, aggregated and turbocharged in your AtScale virtual cube. You have Tableau to create remarkable visualizations. Your data is happy! But are your cube designers and business users too? For instance, did you know that centralizing…

Posted by: Tricia Lord

March 4, 2019

What is a Universal Semantic Layer? Why Would You Want One?

I am a software engineer and I like abstractions. I like abstractions because done correctly an abstraction will factor complexity down to a level where I don’t have to spend any brain cycles thinking about it. Abstraction lets me work…

Posted by: Matt Baird