AtScale Extends Snowflake Semantic Views to Power BI and Excel
Event summary
- AtScale announced a new integration for Snowflake Semantic Views XMLA Endpoint, enabling governed metrics to be extended to Power BI and Excel.
- The integration will be available in private preview soon, following its announcement at Snowflake’s annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 26.
- The XMLA Endpoint allows analysts to access consistent business definitions across Snowflake CoWork, Power BI dashboards, and Excel pivot tables without data duplication.
- AtScale’s solution keeps analytics workloads on Snowflake, avoiding the need for fragile extracts or disconnected semantic logic.
The big picture
AtScale’s integration addresses the growing need for consistent metrics across AI applications and business intelligence tools. As AI agents become more prevalent, the demand for governed semantics that ensure consistent answers across different platforms will drive the adoption of such solutions. This move positions AtScale as a key player in the semantic layer technology space, particularly for enterprises leveraging Snowflake’s data platform.
What we're watching
- Adoption Pace
- How quickly enterprises will adopt the new integration to standardize metrics across AI, dashboards, and spreadsheets.
- Competitive Response
- Whether competitors will introduce similar integrations to maintain their market positions.
- Scalability
- The pace at which AtScale can scale this integration to support broader semantic requirements beyond Snowflake.
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