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AtScale, the leader in enterprise semantic layer technology, today announced its integration with the Databricks MCP Marketplace. This partnership enables organizations to build intelligent AI agents using Databricks Agent Bricks backed by governed semantic models that ensure accurate, trusted business decisions at enterprise scale.

AtScale, a leader in semantic layer technology, today announced it has been named both a Leader and Fast Mover in the 2025 GigaOm Radar Report for Semantic Layers and Metric Stores. This marks the third consecutive year AtScale has earned leadership recognition from GigaOm, highlighting the company’s sustained innovation and market leadership in the rapidly evolving semantic layer space.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer technology for analytics and AI, today unveiled new product innovations and open standards at the 2025 Semantic Layer Summit. The virtual event brought together over 5,000 data leaders to explore the future of governed, AI-ready analytics.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for analytics and generative AI, today unveiled the keynote lineup and full agenda for the 2025 Semantic Layer Summit. Set for Wednesday, May 28, 2025, this premier virtual event will bring together thousands of data leaders, engineers, architects, and analysts to explore the latest innovations in data, analytics, Generative AI, and business intelligence (BI) through the lens of semantic layers in the enterprise.

AtScale, a leader in semantic layer technology, today announced its groundbreaking integration with Databricks Genie, bringing powerful natural language querying to the Databricks Lakehouse. This strategic partnership empowers business users to ask complex questions in plain language and receive accurate, real-time answers, significantly enhancing decision-making without requiring SQL expertise.

AtScale, a leader in semantic layer technology, today announced its groundbreaking integration with Snowflake Cortex Analyst, an advanced AI-driven solution that empowers organizations to generate SQL queries using natural language. This integration combines AtScale’s semantic layer with Cortex Analyst’s text-to-SQL capabilities, allowing organizations to access accurate, trusted insights directly from their Snowflake data environments.

AtScale, a leader in semantic layer technology, has launched an open, public leaderboard for Text-to-SQL (T2SQL) solutions, addressing a critical need for transparency and standardization in evaluating natural language data query capabilities. This resource enables academia, vendors, and developers to measure and compare T2SQL performance on a consistent, replicable benchmark using an industry standard open dataset, schema, and evaluation methods.

AtScale, a leading innovator in semantic layer technology, today announced that it has been positioned as a “leader” in the GigaOm Sonar Report for Semantic Layers and Metric Stores. AtScale earned top scores across all characteristics, placing it at the forefront of the industry and ahead of vendors like Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Cube, and Dbt Labs in terms of scoring.

AtScale, a semantic layer technology pioneer, announced the open-source release of the Semantic Modeling Language (SML), a universal standard designed to promote interoperability and foster a vibrant community of semantic model builders. This significant milestone marks a new chapter in democratizing data analytics, empowering businesses and data scientists to create, share, and reuse semantic models across various platforms and tools.

AtScale, a leading innovator in semantic layer technology, is excited to announce the private preview of its Natural Language Query (NQL) capabilities. AtScale’s new NQL feature empowers business users to get immediate access to insights from their data by simply asking questions in plain English. This approach eliminates the need for complex data engineering, data science, and SQL commands. Leveraging AtScale's Semantic Layer and Generative AI, users can obtain insights directly from BI reports or custom queries, ensuring seamless access to all data modeled in AtScale.

AtScale, a pioneering leader in data management and analytics, announces a significant breakthrough in Natural Language Processing (NLP). By integrating AtScale’s Semantic Layer and Query Engine with large language models (LLMs), AtScale has set a new standard in Text-to-SQL accuracy, achieving an impressive 92.5% across all combinations of question and schema complexities.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for analytics and Generative AI, announced today that its next-generation product innovations are now generally available. The advancements announcements reinforce AtScale's commitment to fostering easier collaboration and agility across all business units, empowering organizations to derive greater value from their data assets and gain a competitive edge in today's rapidly evolving business landscape.

AtScale announced at Snowflake’s annual user conference, Snowflake Data Cloud Summit ‘24, the launch of AtScale’s Semantic Layer Platform on Snowflake Marketplace. AtScale’s Snowflake Native App provides consistent and governed semantic data definitions for self-service BI and AI initiatives natively within joint customers’ Snowflake accounts.

AtScale, the premier provider of semantic layer solutions for analytics and Generative AI, is thrilled to announce the appointment of Mark Palmer to its distinguished Board of Directors. Palmer, a seasoned entrepreneur, advisor and technologist, brings a wealth of experience in tech innovation and strategic advisory, ensuring AtScale remains at the cutting edge of technology and data advancements.

AtScale, the premier provider of semantic layer solutions for analytics and Generative AI, is thrilled to announce the appointment of Roseann Palmieri to its distinguished Board of Directors. With a career spanning over 25 years and unparalleled expertise in data management, strategy formulation, and deep knowledge of the financial services sector and technology innovation, Palmieri is poised to play a pivotal role in guiding AtScale through its next phase of growth.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for analytics and Generative AI, today announced the public preview of the AtScale Developer Community Edition during the annual Semantic Layer Summit. This free downloadable version of AtScale’s semantic layer platform empowers users to build and share semantic models, marking a significant leap forward in democratizing analytics.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for analytics and Generative AI, today announced at the annual Semantic Layer Summit significant product innovations, aimed at advancing the industry into a new era of data-driven innovation. The announcements reinforce AtScale's commitment to fostering easier collaboration and agility across all business units, empowering organizations to derive greater value from their data assets, and to gain a competitive edge in today's rapidly evolving business landscape.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for analytics and Generative AI, announced today Jit Saxena will be retiring from AtScale’s Board of Directors. Saxena has served as a valued member of the board since 2018.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for analytics and Generative AI, is proud to announce the appointment of Michael Egan to its esteemed Board of Directors, effective immediately. Mr. Egan brings a wealth of experience from the technology and venture capital sectors, enhancing AtScale's already dynamic leadership team.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for analytics and generative AI, today announced the keynote line up for its Semantic Layer Summit. On Wednesday, April 24, 2024, thousands of data leaders, engineers, architects and analysts will join virtually to learn about the most recent innovations in data, analytics, Generative AI, and business intelligence (BI) as it relates to semantic layers in the enterprise.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for analytics and Generative AI, published important new insights into the capabilities of Power BI and Microsoft Fabric in handling large-scale data. The results of this comprehensive study using the TPC-DS benchmarking standard, now accessible to the public, shed light on Microsoft’s Fabric platform and its suitability for enterprise workloads.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced deepened connectivity with Alation, the data intelligence company. The partner-built connector enables all data personas to find, understand, and trust data definitions including metrics, dimensions, and hierarchies that are governed in an enterprise semantic layer.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced that it has been recognized in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Analytics and Business Intelligence, 2023. AtScale was named in the Metrics Store category.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced that it has been positioned as the ‘leader’ in GigaOm’s Semantic Layers and Metric Stores Sonar Report. This distinguished recognition places AtScale at the forefront, surpassing industry rivals such as Microsoft, Google, and Oracle.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced at the annual Google Cloud Next 2023 event that it has successfully achieved Google Cloud Ready - BigQuery Designation.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced expanded integrations with Power BI and Excel to support enterprise data and analytics teams leveraging the breadth and flexibility of the Microsoft analytics suite.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams today announced a partnership with Beyond Limits, a leading industrial-grade, hybrid artificial intelligence (AI) software company built for the most demanding sectors. This partnership will accelerate the delivery of joint solutions to customers globally.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced it has been named Emerging Partner of the Year by Databricks, the Data and AI company, and pioneer of the data lakehouse paradigm.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced a referral partnership with Dataiku, the platform for Everyday AI, to help speed enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) adoption and empower companies to easily create business value from their organization’s data.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced that all session videos from its second annual Semantic Layer Summit are now available on demand.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced new capabilities within its semantic layer platform to support code-first data modelers including developers, analytics engineers, and data scientists.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today shared that it reached the milestone of one billion analytics queries served from cloud data platforms.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced its support for the Databricks Lakehouse for Manufacturing. Databricks, the lakehouse company, recently announced an enterprise data platform designed to unleash the full value of manufacturing data to deliver intelligent manufacturing networks, differentiated customer experiences, smarter products and more sustainable businesses.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced the full agenda for the upcoming Semantic Layer Summit. The summit will be broadcast live on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm EDT.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced that it has been approved by Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, as a Snowflake Ready Technology Validation Partner, confirming that the company’s Snowflake integrations adhere to the platform’s best practices around performance, reliability, and security.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced that registration is now open for its second Semantic Layer Summit on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. This unique event brings together today’s top minds in the data, analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and business intelligence (BI) industries to discuss the evolution of the semantic layer technology category.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced an expansion of its integration with Databricks, the lakehouse company.

AtScale, a leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced its availability on Google Cloud Marketplace, providing customers with a cloud-first approach for delivering interactive analytics applications including business intelligence (BI) and enterprise artificial intelligence (AI).

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AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, hosted the inaugural Semantic Layer Summit on September 28, 2022. More than 7,000 signed up for the one-day virtual event, which featured top experts in artificial intelligence (AI) and business intelligence (BI), interactive opportunities, education and discussion sessions and networking opportunities. Over 30 enterprise data leaders shared practical advice based on real-world semantic layer initiatives, best practices, and information on what the future holds. For more details on the event, see this summary blog post.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced the appointment of John Langton as the company’s new vice president of worldwide engineering. In this role, John will run global engineering and R&D for AtScale, managing teams in the Bay Area, Boston, Sofia (Bulgaria) and in remote locations.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced at the Semantic Layer Summit an expanded set of product capabilities for organizations working to accelerate the deployment and adoption of enterprise artificial intelligence (AI). These new capabilities leverage AtScale’s unique position within the data stack with support for common cloud data warehouse and lakehouse platforms including Google BigQuery, Microsoft Azure Synapse, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, and Databricks.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced the full agenda and sponsors for its inaugural Semantic Layer Summit, which is being held virtually on Wednesday, September 28, 2022, from 10:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. EDT. To register, visit semanticlayersummit.com.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced Elif Tutuk as the new VP of product.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today released the results of a new report entitled “Business Impact of Using a Semantic Layer for BI & AI.” Conducted by the DBP Institute, a data and analytics research firm, the report quantifies the business impact of using a semantic layer for a company’s business intelligence (BI) and artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced that it has added support for the Feast feature store. Feast is an open-source feature store gaining rapid adoption in the enterprise data science community. Optimized to run on Snowflake’s Data Cloud, the AtScale-powered Feast feature store advances the adoption of applied artificial intelligence (AI) for the enterprise by granting users easy access to production-grade, business-vetted features that are ready for deployment.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced that Trumid, a financial technology company and fixed income electronic trading platform, chose AtScale to build out its internal advanced analytics and data science capabilities.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced that it will be holding its inaugural Semantic Layer Summit on Wednesday, September 28, 2022.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today launched a highly creative and entertaining YouTube series called “Cloud Dataholics.”

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced the appointment of John Langton as vice president of AI engineering.

Hack/Reduce, a non-profit focused on creating talent and technologies for Boston’s big data-driven economy, today announced that its popular Tech Tackles Cancer (TTC) will be held on June 21, 2022, at the Sinclair in Cambridge from 6-10 pm. Now in its 6th year, TTC is returning to an in-person event after a hiatus of more than two years due to the pandemic.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced that it has achieved Snowflake Premier Partner Status. AtScale can enable Snowflake customers to build a semantic layer for data and analytics that simplifies and accelerates business intelligence (BI) and data science programs, while leveraging the full flexibility and capability of the Snowflake Data Cloud.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced the launch of it's new “Data-Driven Podcast.” The Data-Driven Podcast will explore the impact of making smarter data-driven decisions at scale through a series of conversations with the foremost data, artificial intelligence (AI) and business intelligence (BI) industry innovators and top technologists.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced that it has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced the appointment of Grant Hornung to the role of vice president of global sales. Grant joins the AtScale executive team to lead the company’s global sales organization for AtScale’s semantic layer solutions for enterprise AI and business intelligence.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced the appointment of Gaurav Rao to the newly created position of executive vice president and general manager of machine learning and AI. Rao joins the AtScale executive team to define and lead the business that extends the company’s semantic layer platform to address the rapidly expanding set of enterprise AI and machine learning applications.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced that it has achieved the Amazon Redshift Ready designation, part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Ready Program. This designation recognizes that AtScale has demonstrated successful integration with Amazon Redshift.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced deeper integration with Microsoft Excel’s advanced analytic functions. AtScale makes it possible to connect Excel workbooks to live cloud data platforms, including Snowflake, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Databricks. Excel users can work with billions of rows of data without the need of extraction or moving data. Leveraging native MDX integration, the AtScale semantic layer is fully accessible with Excel PivotTables, Slicers, and Cell Definitions. New support includes the ability to work with cell-level CUBE functions for embedding dimensional queries directly in cell formulas.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced the availability of AtScale AI-LinkTM. AI-Link provides a python interface to AtScale, rich with business context and metrics, to connect data science and augmented analytics programs with enterprise business intelligence (BI). The AtScale semantic layer delivers the governance, consistency and compliance needed to scale enterprise BI and artificial intelligence (AI) while accelerating live connections to public and private cloud data.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced integration with Snowflake’s Snowpark Java UDFs. Snowpark enables AtScale to execute advanced analytic functions within the Snowflake Data Cloud, further optimizing complex analysis, query performance and resource consumption, resulting in unparalleled ROI. This initial integration provides a foundation for embedding additional, high-value services within the Snowflake Data Cloud.

AtScale, the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, announced the launch of AtScale CloudStart for building powerful analytics infrastructure on cloud data platforms. This offering enables organizations to rapidly integrate AtScale’s semantic layer solution on leading cloud data management platforms. CloudStart provides customers a way to start with a smaller semantic layer investment aligned with entry points for cloud data platforms with the ability to scale seamlessly with your analytics infrastructure.

AtScale, a leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced native support for Data Analysis Expressions (DAX). DAX is a formula expression language used in Analysis Services, Microsoft Power BI, and Power Pivot in Microsoft Excel – and now also used with AtScale. Most importantly, native DAX support lets Power BI users connect to AtScale in live connection mode. Live connections can provide fast and seamless access to AtScale’s semantic layer platform, which provides a foundation for delivering and managing data access and quality across the diverse and complex data landscape in the modern cloud-first enterprise.