Semantic Layer Archives

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 / 6 MIN READ

Why Semantics, Not Metadata, Are the Key to Business Context for AI

Five 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,…

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 9, 2026 / 3 MIN READ

A Tech Power Player in the Year the Semantic Layer Broke Through

Chris 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…

Posted By: Mark Palmer

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 11, 2026 / 7 MIN READ

How Anthropic's AI Accuracy Went from 21% to 95%

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% of the time. With…

Posted By: Dave Mariani

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

June 18, 2026 / 3 MIN READ

AtScale's CPO Luis Maldonado on What It Actually Takes to Make AI Trustworthy

At Snowflake Summit last week, AtScale Chief Product Officer Luis Maldonado sat down with Ravit on The Ravit Show to talk about the announcement everyone at the conference was asking about, and the deeper problem…

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June 18, 2026 / 4 MIN READ

A Skill or README Isn't a Semantic Layer

Why not just give the agent a skill? A bunch of people asked this at this week’s Databricks Data + AI Summit . Write down what “revenue” means, drop the skill next to your data,…

Posted By: Mark Palmer

June 23, 2026 / 6 MIN READ

The Architecture Decision That Lets Carrefour’s Metrics Power Both Google Sheets and AI Agents

Imagine if every time you created a document in Microsoft Word you couldn’t read it anywhere else. Not as an email, PDF, or Google Doc. Any time you wanted to collaborate with a new team…

Posted By: Dave Mariani

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

Why Semantics, Not Metadata, Are the Key to Business Context for AI

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

A Tech Power Player in the Year the Semantic Layer Broke Through

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

How Anthropic's AI Accuracy Went from 21% to 95%

It's Got to Be the Semantic Layer, Baby

AtScale's CPO Luis Maldonado on What It Actually Takes to Make AI Trustworthy

A Skill or README Isn't a Semantic Layer

The Architecture Decision That Lets Carrefour’s Metrics Power Both Google Sheets and AI Agents