September 13, 2022

Announcement: Semantic Layer Summit Speakers, Sessions & Sponsors

It’s official! We're excited to announce the full lineup of speakers, sessions, and sponsors for the 2022 Semantic Layer Summit on September 28th. It is a FREE, fully virtual one-day event from 10:30AM - 4:30PM ET. There's a lot to…

Posted by: Ravit Jain

September 1, 2022

How to Go Beyond Data Storytelling to ML and AI Storytelling

This post written by Zach Eslami in collaboration with Jeff Curran.  Storytelling is an art and a skill. Any good storyteller knows it’s always tricky finding that sweet spot to explain a concept so that it’s detailed, but doesn’t overwhelm.…

Posted by: Zach Eslami

August 25, 2022

Moving From Correlation to Causation – the Next Big Step in AI

John K. Thompson, Analytics Leader, Innovator, and Author of Building Analytics Teams and Data for All. Currently, when talking about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the context of enterprise class, commercial companies, it is more of an art than a science.…

Posted by: John K. Thompson

August 11, 2022

How Trumid Enables Real-Time Analysis with BigQuery & Looker

I recently hosted a live customer webinar with a Forbes Top 50 FinTech company that uses AtScale to support their data science initiatives. Trumid’s senior data engineer Colin Reid joined me to share insights into the problems his team is…

Posted by: Dave Mariani

August 4, 2022

AtScale + Snowflake: Enable Dimensional Analysis in the Data Cloud

AtScale’s partnership with Snowflake has dramatically expanded our customers' data processing capabilities — guiding them toward analytics modernization. From delivering analysis-ready data to extending legacy tool services through dialect support, data practitioners can now deliver blazing-fast dimensional analysis to enable…

Posted by: Arthur Lindow

July 7, 2022

The Business Impact of Using a Semantic Layer for AI and BI

Companies are in the midst of making major investments in modern cloud data and analytics platforms to improve business growth, customer loyalty, efficiency, and profitability. Questions concerning if an investment to enable data, insights, and analytics is warranted have been…

Posted by: Prashanth Southekal, PhD, MBA

June 30, 2022

Shifting to a Dimensional Data Modeling Approach Using a Semantic Layer

There are six key areas for effectively consuming data for business insights: storing the data, having access to the data, modeling the data, analyzing it, consuming it, and generating insights from it. For organizations looking to advance in each of…

Posted by: Dave Mariani

June 23, 2022

How to Use Excel for Analytics in the Cloud

Despite having a billion users, Excel is not always thought of as a business intelligence (BI) tool. Yet Excel remains by far the predominant BI consumption platform in enterprise data because its formulas and functions make it a powerful tool…

Posted by: Dave Mariani