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November 29, 2021

AtScale was conceived as an independent semantic layer for data and analytics for business intelligence users. Leading BI teams use AtScale to create enterprise metrics hubs, enabling self-serve access to a consistent source of metrics that are tied to data…

November 3, 2021

“Speed of Thought Analytics” is a somewhat vague term that refers to the user experience of people interacting with data. Generically it can be taken to mean analytics performance that supports the navigation of data at a pace in sync…

November 1, 2021

Before You Break Up with OLAP While relationships can be challenging at times, they are hopefully worth the effort. When your significant other repeatedly leaves the cap off the toothpaste or leaves dirty dishes in the sink, it might drive…

October 28, 2021

There’s been a lot of news lately about semantic layers. Google and Tableau announced their plans to connect Tableau to Looker’s semantic layer. It’s great to see the industry recognize the importance of the semantic layer in the new cloud…

October 12, 2021

This is the first of a three part blog series discussing the power of AtScale and Snowflake to help enterprise data science teams scale and leverage the agility of a cloud based infrastructure.  We have written before about the power…

October 7, 2021

No matter how sophisticated and agile an enterprise BI program may be, there is always a need to go deeper than canned reports and dashboards. Business analysts’ primary role is to figure out what the data is saying and support decision…

September 30, 2021

Last week, AtScale announced new Excel integrations and we blogged about the ability to use Excel as a powerful business intelligence platform.  In this post, we will cover the basics of using AtScale to connect Excel to a cloud data…

September 28, 2021

In the previous blog in this series on Excel + AtScale, we demonstrated how to connect Amazon Redshift to an Excel Pivot-Table. AtScale is able to leverage Microsoft’s MultiDimensional eXpressions (MDX) protocol to natively deliver a dimensional analysis experience to…

September 22, 2021

Microsoft Excel has been the workhorse analytics tool for generations of business analysts, financial modelers, and data hacks. It delivers the ultimate flexibility to manipulate data, create new metrics with cell calculations, build live visualizations and slice and dice data.…

September 14, 2021

In a recent post, we discussed how a semantic layer helps scale data science and enterprise AI programs. With massive adoption of Snowflake’s cloud data platform, many organizations are shifting analytics and data science workloads to the Snowflake cloud. Leveraging the…