March 10, 2025
Data Intelligence Week: Unlocking AI & BI with AtScale + DatabricksAtScale 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 modernize their analytics stack by…
March 4, 2025
The Semantic Lakehouse for AI/BIKyle 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” leveraging PowerBI. The following year, in a…
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 partnership began to gain momentum.…
February 25, 2025
Announcing the Integration of AtScale and Databricks AI/BI Genie: Redefining Natural Language Query AccuracySummary: AtScale now integrates with Databricks Genie, enabling AI-driven natural language querying (NLQ) with governed, business-defined accuracy. Genie enables business users to query data in plain language, while AtScale ensures AI-generated SQL queries align with business definitions. AtScale’s semantic layer…
January 16, 2025
Open-Source Semantic Layer: Crucial for the Future of AI and BIThe fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Business Intelligence (BI) are undergoing rapid transformation, driven by advancements in machine learning, large language models (LLMs), and data democratization. Amid this evolution, open-source semantics are emerging as a cornerstone for bridging the…
August 15, 2024
Why a Semantic Layer is Critical in ManufacturingAdam Conway (SVP of Product at Databricks) recently published a blog titled “Big Data Is Back and Is More Important Than AI” and argues that the most important revenue-generating or cost-saving workloads depend on massive data sets. This is especially…
March 22, 2024
Power BI Face Off: Databricks vs. Microsoft FabricAs I hinted in my last blog post, “Your Questions Answered: TPC-DS Benchmark for Power BI/Direct Lake”, and due to popular customer demand, I’m happy to announce that we just published our Power BI/Direct Lake benchmark comparison for another data…
March 21, 2024
Democratizing Your Lakehouse to Excel Users with Databricks SQL and AtScaleWhat’s The Deal With Excel? Excel is the most predominant BI tool in the enterprise because of its versatility, ease of use, and range of capabilities. It is the tool of choice for almost a billion analysts worldwide. However, whenever…
September 20, 2023
Bridging the Gap: PowerBI on DatabricksAtScale has a strong history of collaboration and innovation with Microsoft, and was the first semantic layer platform to introduce native support for Microsoft’s Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) query language. This support lets Power BI users connect to AtScale in…
November 3, 2022
Modernize Your SSAS Architecture with Databricks and AtScaleThis post was written in collaboration with Swaroop Oggu, Solutions Architect at Databricks. Dimensional analysis is an important tool for building analytics-oriented data products (e.g. interactive dashboards) based on data assets managed in a lakehouse. Historically, dimensional analysis has been…
