Updated July 29, 2026
Inside the AtScale and Snowflake Partnership: Why Snowflake Embedded AtScale in Semantic ViewsThe Snowflake Semantic Views XMLA Endpoint, powered by AtScale, is an integrated product offering. It’s the only semantic solution to have this distinction. It’s not something bolted on the side of Snowflake; it’s the bet Snowflake made on AtScale. The…
Updated July 28, 2026
Five Questions Every CDO Should Ask About AI and SemanticsThe metrics powering your AI agents right now, like margin per square foot or total economic cost, probably don't belong to you. They belong to whichever platform computes them today. Snowflake, Databricks, the frontier LLM labs, Microsoft, Salesforce, Google, and…
Updated July 23, 2026
Don’t Let Microsoft Be Your WardenMicrosoft just made the case for AtScale by playing Warden Norton, the prison boss from "The Shawshank Redemption." On Tuesday, Sara Vredevoogd from Microsoft's Power BI team announced that Microsoft 365 Copilot can now query Power BI semantic models directly.…
Updated July 7, 2026
Why I Joined AtScale: The Semantic Layer Inflection PointOver four and a half years at Snowflake, I watched enterprises run into a problem that's about to get much worse: every major platform has built its own semantic layer, and none of them talk to each other. Many platforms…
Updated June 18, 2026
A Skill or README Isn’t a Semantic LayerWhy 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, and skip the semantic layer. I…
Updated June 11, 2026
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 one, accuracy improved to 95%, and some…
Updated June 11, 2026
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 two jobs is now showing up…
Updated June 10, 2026
Your AI Isn’t Expensive. It’s Guessing.Inside a Tier 1 bank's $9-million-a-year AI rediscovery tax, and the architectural fix that cut compute costs by as much as 21,903x. Every time an analyst at a Tier 1 bank asks, "What was revenue in the Northeast last quarter?"…
Updated June 9, 2026
A Tech Power Player in the Year the Semantic Layer Broke ThroughChris 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 is changing everything for semantic…
Updated June 4, 2026
Why Semantics, Not Metadata, Are the Key to Business Context for AIFive 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, is what happens when AI has…
