September 22, 2021

How a Semantic Layer Turns Excel into a Sophisticated BI Platform

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.…

Posted by: Josh Epstein

August 5, 2021

AtScale in Action: How to Make Power BI Perform on Snowflake

Many enterprises today choose the Microsoft stack because it fits seamlessly with the Windows OS and existing business applications. That’s why AtScale has partnered with Snowflake to streamline reporting and analytics with Power BI. If you haven’t seen our previous…

Posted by: Dave Mariani

April 29, 2021

Make Power BI Shine on Snowflake, BigQuery & Redshift

Attention Power BI enthusiasts, what I am about to say is huge! AtScale now lets you get Live Query access to cloud data warehouses within a full, multi-dimensional model. This means you get live access to your cloud data with…

Posted by: Dave Mariani

October 9, 2020

Tableau Conference-ish Takeaways

It was great to be a part of the re-imagined Tableau Conference this year. This year, we joined the #datafam online. AtScale co-founder, Dave Mariani, just may have attended his first tech conference in PJs and AtScale social media pro,…

Posted by: Carole Gunst

September 29, 2020

Join AtScale at the Tableau Conference-ish

AtScale is joining one of the biggest data communities in the world at the Tableau Conference-ish that takes place from October 6-8, 2020 virtually. We’re looking forward to meeting thousands of data-driven people like you from all industries and all…

Posted by: Carole Gunst

June 5, 2020

Excel with Google BigQuery

I hear it all the time. Many enterprises hate Excel because it’s an analytics “free for all” but the business users love it and can’t live without it. No matter what BI tools an enterprise may have, ultimately, that last…

Posted by: Dave Mariani

April 20, 2020

Excelling at Modern Analytics

Having spent the better part of 20 years in data analytics, I consider myself fairly savvy in the world of data transformation, complex financial models, and best practices for data visualization. As someone knee deep in the latest and greatest…

Posted by: Chris Oshiro

December 12, 2019

How AtScale Makes Tableau Even Better

I consider myself to be an early adopter of Tableau.  I discovered Tableau Desktop back in 2007 when I was CTO for Bluelithium.  I bought a copy with my personal credit card and expensed it to the company.  What I…

Posted by: Dave Mariani