AtScale, a leading provider of semantic layer solutions for business intelligence and data science teams, has announced expanded integrations with Microsoft Power BI and Excel. This new integration aims to support enterprise data and analytics teams in making the most of the breadth and flexibility offered by the Microsoft analytics suite.
As Microsoft Power BI continues to dominate the market share for business intelligence (BI), AtScale’s expanded integration comes at a crucial time. With widespread adoption across the Global 2000, Microsoft Power BI remains at the forefront of enterprise BI, delivering continual innovation in data visualization, interactive analytics, AI-augmented analytics, and embeddability across the Microsoft 365 stack.
AtScale is introducing five important enhancements to its Microsoft Analytics integration. These enhancements will empower Power BI and Excel users to build innovative analytics experiences while promoting centralized governance. By leveraging these enhancements, data and analytics teams can benefit from a powerful data modeling environment, which simplifies BI modeling and accelerates the development process.
AtScale brings a new, very practical paradigm for supporting the Power BI community with enterprise-scale governance and scalability, said Greg Deckler, a seven-time Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and active member of the Power BI community.
AtScale’s longstanding partnership and co-innovation with Microsoft have established it as the first semantic layer platform to introduce native support for Microsoft’s Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) query language. This native support allows Power BI users to connect to AtScale in live connection mode, ensuring high-performance live query access to data sets managed on cloud data platforms such as Google BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, and Amazon Redshift.
Christopher Lynch, CEO of AtScale, highlighted Microsoft’s dominant position in enterprise analytics and business intelligence through the widespread adoption of Power BI and Excel. Lynch emphasized that AtScale provides data teams with a path to fully embrace the power and flexibility of Microsoft Analytics while leveraging the capabilities of modern cloud data platforms. This scalable analytics infrastructure is essential to support growth and drive innovation.
The expanded integration between AtScale and Microsoft Power BI and Excel represents AtScale’s commitment to empowering organizations with robust analytics capabilities. Through seamless integration and maximum flexibility, AtScale simplifies BI modeling, accelerates development, and helps organizations unlock the full potential of their data.
Overall, AtScale’s integration with Microsoft’s analytics suite aims to enhance the analytics experience for Power BI and Excel users, providing them with the tools and support needed to build innovative and transformative analytics solutions. With a focus on centralized governance and scalability, this integration offers data and analytics teams a streamlined and efficient way to harness the power of Microsoft’s analytics tools and the flexibility of cloud data platforms.
