Dave Mariani

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Dave is the founder of AtScale and is the Chief Technology Officer. Prior to AtScale, he was VP of Engineering at Klout & at Yahoo! where he built the world’s largest multi-dimensional cube for BI on Hadoop. Mariani is a Big Data visionary & serial entrepreneur.

October 31, 2024

5 Common Data Challenges & How a Semantic Layer Can Solve Them

In today’s fast-paced business environment, the ability to make quick, informed decisions is a critical differentiator. However, organizations often face significant data challenges when it comes to data-driven decision-making. These challenges typically stem from the absence of a semantic layer,…

September 10, 2024

Announcing Open Source Semantic Modeling Language (SML)

It’s been over ten years since my co-founders and I launched AtScale to democratize analytics for everyone. We quickly realized that we needed to create a business-friendly view on top of the technical data so that ordinary business users could…

Announcing The GA AtScale Developer Edition

  We are thrilled to announce the general availability of the AtScale Developer Edition! You can register and download it here. GA Developer Highlights Available for free Access to PostGres included Public Repo can be found here Allows developers to…

March 22, 2024

Power BI Face Off: Databricks vs. Microsoft Fabric

As I hinted in my last blog post, “Your Questions Answered: TPC-DS Benchmark for Power BI/Direct Lake”, and due to popular customer demand, I’m happy to announce that we just published our Power BI/Direct Lake benchmark comparison for another data…

February 22, 2024

Your Questions Answered: TPC-DS Benchmark for Power BI/Direct Lake

I’ve received quite a bit of feedback since releasing our TPC Benchmark on Power BI/Direct Lake report a few weeks ago. In online forums and in conversations with customers, prospects and partners, I collected the feedback and decided to use…

June 29, 2023

Preventing Semantic Sprawl in the Modern Data Analytics Stack

Data is invaluable to an organization’s decision-making, business innovation, and cross-team collaboration. With the rise of big data and cloud data warehouses, fully-realized democratization is the next step in many businesses’ data journeys. They want to enable company-wide, self-service analytics,…