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August 21, 2025 / 3 MIN READ

Unlock Power BI Semantic Models: Open Source and Interoperable Semantics

Enterprises have spent years codifying trusted business logic in their Power BI semantic models, reports, and dashboards . These models represent thousands of hours of work from data teams and business analysts to define the…

Posted By: Dave Mariani

March 26, 2026 / 8 MIN READ

Power BI & Excel on Snowflake Without Data Movement | Semantic Layer for AI

Most enterprises have already standardized where their data lives. What they haven’t standardized is how that data is interpreted. Power BI and Excel users still rely on a workaround: moving data out of Snowflake into…

Posted By: Dave Mariani

August 5, 2021 / 4 MIN READ

AtScale in Action: How to Make Power BI Perform on Snowflake

Many enterprises today choose the Microsoft stack because it fits seamlessly with the Windows OS and existing business applications. That’s why AtScale has partnered with Snowflake to streamline reporting and analytics with Power BI .…

Posted By: Dave Mariani

May 11, 2026 / 4 MIN READ

Snowflake, Databricks, AtScale, and Omni, on the same stage, on purpose

The OSI panel airs at the Semantic Layer Summit. Here’s what I’m hoping shakes loose. Snowflake and Databricks don’t usually sit at the same table. They compete for the same workloads, the same logos, the…

Posted By: Mark Palmer

May 15, 2026 / 4 MIN READ

The Semantic Wars Are Here. Google, You're Next.

Microsoft started a semantic war with Databricks. The next front is AI. Google customers need a semantic strategy to stay free on both. Microsoft just killed the connector that let Power BI read Databricks’ business…

Posted By: Mark Palmer

June 2, 2026 / 6 MIN READ

Snowflake Partnered with AtScale for a Reason: Your Semantic Layer Is Too Important to Surrender

Snowflake 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…

Posted By: Mark Palmer

June 4, 2026 / 8 MIN READ

Snowflake Summit 2026: Governed Semantic Views for CoCo, CoWork, Power BI, and Excel

How 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…

Posted By: Dave Mariani

June 4, 2026 / 8 MIN READ

AtScale for Snowflake Semantic Views: Governed Metrics, Everywhere Your Business Runs

Executive 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…

Posted By: AtScale

June 11, 2026 / 3 MIN READ

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…

Posted By: Mark Palmer

June 17, 2026 / 5 MIN READ

It's Got to Be the Semantic Layer, Baby

AtScale’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…

Posted By: Mark Palmer

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Unlock Power BI Semantic Models: Open Source and Interoperable Semantics

Power BI & Excel on Snowflake Without Data Movement | Semantic Layer for AI

AtScale in Action: How to Make Power BI Perform on Snowflake

Snowflake, Databricks, AtScale, and Omni, on the same stage, on purpose

The Semantic Wars Are Here. Google, You're Next.

Snowflake Partnered with AtScale for a Reason: Your Semantic Layer Is Too Important to Surrender

Snowflake Summit 2026: Governed Semantic Views for CoCo, CoWork, Power BI, and Excel

AtScale for Snowflake Semantic Views: Governed Metrics, Everywhere Your Business Runs

Power BI Was Built as a Client. Stop Using It as a Foundation.

It's Got to Be the Semantic Layer, Baby