July 10, 2020
Summer 2020 Global Azure DataFest RecapRecently, the AtScale team presented at the Summer 2020 Global Azure DataFest. Our session, OLAP on the Cloud with Azure Databricks and Azure Synapse, was one of the highest attended of the day. AtScale co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Dave…
July 9, 2020
Data News Roundup – Thursday, July 9th, 2020Welcome to this week’s edition of AtScale’s Data News Roundup blog series for Thursday, July 9th. In this week’s roundup, we share some exciting AtScale news. We’ve expanded our COVID-19 data semantic model to include employment data from the US…
July 8, 2020
Charting the Path Back to “Normal”Life for humanity across the globe has changed for the foreseeable future. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a massive impact on every aspect of our lives from work to childcare to enjoying local businesses and restaurants in our communities. As…
July 7, 2020
ATSCALE’S COVID-19 INSIGHTS MODEL EXPANSIONToday, AtScale announced that we have released new datasets and an accompanying Tableau workbook with prebuilt dashboards for our COVID-19 Cloud OLAP Insights Model. The new, enriched data and workbook provides you with economic and behavioral data for deep analysis…
July 2, 2020
Data News Roundup – Thursday, July 2nd, 2020Welcome to this week’s edition of AtScale’s Data News Roundup blog series for Thursday, July 2nd. This week’s roundup is headlined by two pieces of coverage featuring AtScale: our CEO Chris Lynch was quoted in Forbes discussing the critical traits…
One of the most important concepts any business must consider when investing in technology infrastructure or applications is ROI (return on investment). Capital is one of the most precious commodities an organization has - and often one of the most…
July 1, 2020
The Cost of Bad DataAccording to Gartner, decision-making based on inconsistent data is responsible for an average of $15 million per year in losses to the enterprise. Why? Enterprises today are using a variety of tools for KPI reporting that rely on varying subsets…
June 29, 2020
The 1990’s Called, They Want Their OLAP Back*Author’s Note: This is an update to the blog post “The 1990’s Called, They Want Their OLAP Back,” originally published in June 2020. For the modern cloud-first data pro, the terms “OLAP” and “cube” are dirty words. That said, many…
June 25, 2020
Data News Roundup – Thursday, June 25th, 2020Welcome to this week’s edition of AtScale’s Data News Roundup blog series for Thursday, June 25. In this week’s roundup, read why software productivity is on the rise; how COVID-19 data is being used for healthcare research; and the changing…
June 24, 2020
Use These Four Resources to Become a Universal Semantic Layer ProYou are probably familiar with the concept of a semantic layer. According to Wikipedia, “a semantic layer is a business representation of corporate data that helps end users access data autonomously using common business terms. A semantic layer maps complex…
