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Updated May 17, 2022

Many companies pursuing a path to data-driven decision-making  – accelerated through data democratization – struggle with how to define and support the core people, roles, and competencies involved with data (data creators, enablers, and consumers).  In many cases, the path…

Updated April 14, 2022

During another round of interviews with data leaders, I spoke with several industry experts about creating and fostering a data-driven culture. We discussed different data architectures, the gap between data produced and data consumed, data literacy, and more. The data…

Updated February 24, 2022

I recently connected with a few of the top data leaders to discuss the role of business analytics and machine learning at their organizations. We chatted about the nuances of global data programs, promoting data literacy at large enterprises, measuring…

Updated June 29, 2021

Introduction to Data Fabric We have written about the concept of the “Data Fabric” in the past. While not new, it is an increasingly cited topic to help organize the many technologies and strategies employed by enterprise data teams to…

Updated May 18, 2021

Data-driven: a phrase that sounds so simple, but in practice so complicated. For years, organizations have accumulated data in various formats, from many sources. Data engineers were expected to process and analyze this data for consumption by business users. This…

Updated April 8, 2021

In our most recent webinar, four data-driven leaders from Cardinal Health, Slickdeals, bol.com and Wayfair joined us for a panel where they discussed how they are scaling smarter decision-making across their organizations and making data more accessible as a strategic…

Updated August 17, 2020

Recently, two Big Data industry veterans, Dave Mariani, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of AtScale and Chris Oshiro, Field CTO of AtScale and I got together for a new episode of our podcast, CHATSCALE. Mariani and Oshiro spoke to the…

Updated March 30, 2020

The data and analytics space continues to evolve at an incredibly rapid pace as enterprises use data from across the organization to report on and predict the future. As enterprises recognize new ways to drive revenue, reduce costs and/or mitigate…

Updated December 31, 2019

If you’ve been following the AtScale blog throughout the years, we hope that we have provided you with content that has furthered your understanding of the big data analytics landscape and who we are as a company. Of these articles,…

Updated November 12, 2019

Surprise! You never would have guessed the future is in the cloud. We should not be overly concerned with “the future” of data warehousing. The past five years have brought fundamental new capabilities at the platform level and most organizations…

Updated October 9, 2019

There's sometimes a misconception in the understanding of Big Data. Isn't is just analytics? They're related, but in this movement, data has become not only bigger but more complex meaning that anyone seeking to glean intelligence from Big Data must…

Updated August 7, 2019

Too many retailers are held back by their IT infrastructure, with key operational data scattered across fragmented systems. These silos and a lack of shared organizational insight put retailers’ competitive edge against both online and brick-and-mortar shops at great risk.…