March 8, 2022
The Centralized Data Repository: Breaking Down Data SilosWhen it comes to effective consumption of data for business insights, there are six key capabilities: data, access, model, analyze, consume, and insights. AtScale’s Data and Analytics Maturity Model Workshop explains how organizations can build the skills and knowledge necessary…
February 22, 2022
Developing an Effective Enterprise Data Strategy in the Age of Cloud Data PlatformsMany companies have difficulties developing a roadmap for data, insights, and analytics. This blog stresses the importance of having an enterprise data strategy as the guidepost for articulating an effective set of use cases and a clear roadmap that scales…
November 3, 2021
The Art and Science of Accelerating Cloud-Scale Business Intelligence and Analytics“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…
July 13, 2021
How AtScale Uses Aggregates to Optimize Query PerformanceThe use of data aggregations (i.e. aggregates) to accelerate query performance is a common practice for data engineering teams, but the question remains how to balance resources like time and compute consumption in the aggregation process. Rather than relying on…
June 22, 2021
Analytics Query Acceleration in the Age of Cloud Data PlatformsLate last year, Gartner published their first Market Guide for Analytics Query Accelerators (available with Gartner Subscription). They loosely define this broad set of technologies as providing “[query] optimization on top of semantically flexible data stores, typically associated with data…
April 21, 2021
The Data & Analytics Maturity Model: What is It and Where Does Your Team Stand?We’re living in an age where data drives organizational success. In the past, most organizations could get by with a central IT team doling out reports and dashboards to business users. That just doesn’t cut it anymore. The self-serve analytics…
April 8, 2021
How to Make Smarter Data-Driven Decisions at ScaleIn our most recent webinar, four data-driven leaders from Cardinal Health, Slickdeals, bol.com and Wayfair joined us for a panel where they discussed how they are scaling smarter decision-making across their organizations and making data more accessible as a strategic…
January 27, 2021
How a Semantic Layer Can Help You Blend Your SaaS Data to Optimize Sales & Marketing Channel ROIData is everywhere. With dozens of SaaS sales, marketing, and other business applications in use today, companies are witnessing an exponential rise in the volume of data they can access, leverage, and exploit. The same applies to information streams and…
November 4, 2020
The Three Opportunities for Cloud OLAP to Improve Enterprise AnalyticsWhere is the industry going in terms of large scale data and machine learning data? We’ve made fantastic strides over the last five-eight years, but business-centric analytics has not reduced in value. Much of the business intelligence and data science…
October 26, 2020
Unlocking Additional Revenue by Optimizing Sales AnalyticsIn our most recent webinar, Matt Hartwig, Associate Director of Data Infrastructure at Wayfair and Dave Mariani, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of AtScale shared the techniques Wayfair uses to make data a competitive advantage. Wayfair is an e-commerce leader…
