AtScale Releases Trial Offer of Intelligence Platform on Microsoft HDI

Oct. 26 — AtScale, the first company to provide business users with a fast and secure self-service BI platform for Hadoop, announced today that it has become the first and only provider to enable Power BI users to perform live, interactive, queries against data in Hadoop without data imports, pre-processing or data movement.

AtScale has released a trial offer of its AtScale Intelligence Platform on Microsoft HDI providing live support for Power BI and Microsoft Excel.

Dave Mariani, CEO and Founder of AtScale will be on stage to present this solution this Thursday at the SQL Pass Conference, Microsoft’s community’s largest Business Analytics conference.

Scaling Business Intelligence Out

Fast-forward 3 years and AtScale has become the industry standard for BI on Big Data. It counts some of the world’s largest multinationals as customers, including: American Express, Comcast, Macy’s, Home Depot, Groupon and GlaxoSmithKline. Cloudera recently became an AtScale customer and Hortonworks just entered into a commercial relationship to resell AtScale globally.

From Terabytes to Petabytes

The AtScale Intelligence Platform bares many similarities with traditional Business Intelligence and OLAP Platforms like BusinessObjects, Cognos or SQL Server Analysis Services.  But, it has a few major exceptions: AtScale does not require cube building: this makes newly created measures and dimensions immediately available to users.  AtScale does not materialize data, which makes its models infinitely scalable.  It also means users have access to all data, not just pre-aggregated result sets.  Finally, AtScale’s design experience is web-based and multi-user, which allows teams to collaborate in creating data models and virtual cubes.

AtScale is the industry’s only solution that supports both SQL and MDX in live mode and with the same model.  This means that IT can build one model that can be used by virtually any Business Intelligence tool.  Finally, AtScale’s “no-data-movement” architecture allows IT teams to model their data without having to extract it and it lets users access all the data they need in a live and secure manner.

With AtScale, Power BI customers save the time and difficulty of importing data or making tradeoffs on what data they can analyze – they can access it all, with unparalleled speed, performance and security.

AtScale’s new offer provides Microsoft customers with an easy way to get started whether they have Microsoft Azure credits or want to take advantage of Microsoft’s free trial offers for Power BI and its HDI platform.

There, enterprises will discover some of the latest key functionality AtScale offers on the Microsoft platform, namely:

• Design Center: AtScale design experience.  Design Center is a server-based component that allows users to design models over the web and in a multi-user mode.  Design Center allows IT to deploy models on premise, in the cloud, in development and in production.  One of Design Center’s key differentiators is the fact that it installs only on one node, allowing enterprises to test on a few data nodes and scale out to the rest of their clusters in just a few clicks.
• Hybrid Query Service:  The average enterprise has tens of different Business Intelligence tools, from Tableau to Microsoft Excel to Power BI to MicroStrategy.  Each tool requires its own query language: Tableau prefers SQL; Excel requires MDX.  This makes it complicated for IT to support the many use cases spread across a company’s departments and their tools of preference, should they require MDX or SQL.  AtScale’s Hybrid Query Service makes it the industry’s only platform that can support both MDX and SQL.
• AtScale Adaptive Cache: Solutions that attempt to connect users to large datasets require that data be moved into materialized cubes, datamarts or extracts.  AtScale works in live mode, always.  This means that users always get the latest data available.  AtScale Adaptive Cache guarantees sub-second performance on virtually any data type or size, and, even better, it never requires that IT moves data or manually manages scripts or aggregates.
• AtScale’s True Delegation: Governance and security are top priorities to companies who want to deliver self-service analytics to their users.  AtScale’s True Delegation capabilities ensure that every query is associated with the end-user who generated the query and satisfies the most stringent data governance and access auditing policies. The Platform works seamlessly with Apache Sentry, Apache Ranger and fully supports LDAP, Active Directory, and Kerberos.

By using AtScale, enterprises can finally benefit from a highly secure, open and advanced platform for BI on Big Data.  To find out more about AtScale, its Hybrid Query Service and Universal Semantic Layer, simply go to www.atscale.com/try.

About AtScale

AtScale makes BI work on Hadoop. With AtScale, business users get interactive and multi-dimensional analysis capabilities, directly on Hadoop, at maximum speed, using the tools they already know, own and love – from Microsoft Excel to Tableau Software to QlikView. Built by Big Data Veterans from Yahoo!, Google and Oracle, AtScale is already enabling the BI on Hadoop revolution at major corporations across healthcare, telecommunications, retail and online industries. To see how AtScale can help you, go to www.atscale.com/try.

Source: AtScale