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Four AI Pillars and a Wide-Open Opportunity
I just got back from the Databricks Data & AI Summit, and I have a lot to unpack. This was the biggest DAIS yet, with 31,309 attendees, and the energy was unmistakable. More importantly, Databricks…
The Semantic Wars Are Here. Google, You're Next.
Microsoft started a semantic war with Databricks. The next front is AI. Google customers need a semantic strategy to stay free on both. Microsoft just killed the connector that let Power BI read Databricks’ business…
Snowflake, Databricks, AtScale, and Omni, on the same stage, on purpose
The OSI panel airs at the Semantic Layer Summit. Here’s what I’m hoping shakes loose. Snowflake and Databricks don’t usually sit at the same table. They compete for the same workloads, the same logos, the…
Microsoft Held Databricks Customers Hostage. Customers Paid the Ransom. Freedom Ends It.
Microsoft made a small, deliberate change to the Power BI connector for Azure Databricks ( release notes ). The change looks technical, but it’s really a move to seize control of the semantic layer ,…
Not All Semantic Layers Are Built for AI
The semantic layer has moved from niche infrastructure to a boardroom priority. Snowflake announced one. Databricks announced one. Google repositioned Looker as one. Microsoft repositioned Power BI as one. This is genuinely good news. As…
Autonomous AI Without a Semantic Layer Is Just Expensive Guessing
I’ve been in the BI and data space long enough to recognize when something fundamental shifts. Denny Lee and I first worked together when he was at Microsoft on SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) ,…
How AtScale and Databricks Genie Democratize Data Intelligence with AI + a Semantic Layer
In our recent webinar, Democratizing Data Intelligence Across the Supply Chain with a Semantic Layer , I had the pleasure of speaking with Joshua Green , Data and AI Strategist at Databricks , about how…
Data Intelligence Week: Unlocking AI & BI with AtScale + Databricks
AtScale and Databricks first partnered in early 2022. At the time, Databricks SQL was still gaining traction, and many enterprises relied on various presentation layers for analytics. Our mission was clear: to enable organizations to…
The Semantic Lakehouse for AI/BI
Kyle Hale, Lead Product Architect with Databricks, coined the term ” Semantic Lakehouse ” in a 2022 blog. The blog explained how to extend the Lakehouse offering to users at the “top of the stack”…
The AtScale & Databricks partnership: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….
AtScale and Databricks first started partnering together in early 2022. At the time, Databricks SQL was relatively new, and many of their customers were still leveraging optional presentation layers to support Business Intelligence workloads. The…