Updated January 6, 2026
Looking Back at 2025: Rating My Predictions on AI, Semantics, and Data DemocratizationLast year, I made a set of predictions for data and analytics trends for 2025: "The Future of Data & Analytics: Trends to Look For." Now that the year has wrapped, it’s time to put those forecasts to the test…
Updated December 22, 2025
The Rise of AI Analysts and the Infrastructure They RequireI've been building analytics software for more than two decades. I've watched waves of innovation promise to democratize analytics, including self-service BI, cloud warehouses, and natural language query systems. Each wave delivered value, but also exposed new challenges. We're now…
Updated December 18, 2025
Snowflake Venture’s Strategic Equity Investment in AtScale: The Strategic Play for Semantics in the EnterpriseThis isn’t about funding. It’s about control. After 15 years helping enterprises modernize analytics, I’ve learned to ignore the size of the check. What matters is why it was written. Snowflake Ventures led AtScale’s largest equity financing to date. But…
Updated December 18, 2025
Why Snowflake’s Strategic Equity Investment in AtScale Validates the Open Semantic FutureI've spent more than two decades watching the data industry cycle through architectural shifts. Each wave promised to solve this fundamental challenge: delivering consistent, governed analytics that actually scale with the business. Most failed because they optimized for a single…
Updated November 8, 2024
Open Source Semantics: Setting the Standard for Interoperability with Databricks and AtScale
Updated September 24, 2024
Introducing SML: The Open Standard for Seamless Semantic Layer Integration
