AtScale

Every architecture diagram I see draws the same three boxes. Sometimes it's Model + RAG + MCP. Sometimes it's Model + MCP + Tools. The labels move around, but the shape never changes. The diagram describes how an agent reaches your data. It says nothing a

Enterprises running Snowflake, Databricks, and BigQuery side by side no longer struggle with data movement. Data pipeline tools solved that years ago. Now they have a metrics problem: the same "gross margin" or "active users" number means something differ

Any AI performance conversation runs the same three tracks: token costs, inference latency, and model accuracy, and all three numbers matter. But once an AI system reaches enterprise data, a fourth system starts determining both cost and performance: the

AI usage isn't the same as AI value. That's why Snowflake introduced "intelligence efficiency" this week. In a post on Snowflake's blog, CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy laid out how companies are pouring money into AI, and boards want proof it's translating into mo

"What was revenue in the Northeast region last quarter?" At first blush, the query looks simple enough. It reads like something you'd ask an analyst on your team and get an answer back in five minutes. But an LLM can't read an analyst's mind, and it didn'

Here's a heretical question worth considering: what if standards are actually beside the point for semantic layers? Apache Ossie was recently announced as the open standard successor to the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI) initiative. Its mission is to cre

Will AI replace BI? Consider this: The cloud didn't kill the data warehouse. Self-service didn't kill the dashboard. Donald Farmer, who's watched decades of this cycle repeat, put it to me plainly on the Data-Driven podcast: every generation of data techn

The Snowflake Semantic Views XMLA Endpoint, powered by AtScale, is an integrated product offering. It's the only semantic solution to have this distinction. It's not something bolted on the side of Snowflake; it's the bet Snowflake made on AtScale. The so

The metrics powering your AI agents right now, like margin per square foot or total economic cost, probably don't belong to you. They belong to whichever platform computes them today. Snowflake, Databricks, the frontier LLM labs, Microsoft, Salesforce, Go

Microsoft just made the case for AtScale by playing Warden Norton, the prison boss from "The Shawshank Redemption." On Tuesday, Sara Vredevoogd from Microsoft's Power BI team announced that Microsoft 365 Copilot can now query Power BI semantic models dire