How AtScale Extends Snowflake Semantic Views to Power BI and Excel

AtScale's latest announcement with Snowflake highlights a reality many organizations are just beginning to realize: AI is only as smart as the business context behind it. That's where the Semantic Layer comes in. What do you think? That was one of the key takeaways from my conversation with Luis Maldonado, Chief Product Officer at AtScale, during Snowflake Summit on The Ravit Show.For years, organizations have struggled with a simple problem: different teams looking at the same data but arriving at different answers. Finance has one definition of revenue, sales has another, and operations has a third. The result is confusion, duplicated effort, and a lack of trust in analytics.The Semantic Layer changes that.It creates a common business language that sits between data and the people, applications, dashboards, and AI systems consuming it. Instead of every team building its own logic and calculations, everyone works from the same trusted definitions.What makes this particularly interesting is the collaboration between AtScale and Snowflake. As enterprises move beyond dashboards and into AI-powered decision making, trusted business context becomes critical. AI systems need more than data. They need to understand what that data actually means.The message from AtScale was clear: the future is not just about storing and processing data. It's about ensuring consistent business definitions across Power BI, Excel, analytics platforms, and AI applications.As AI adoption accelerates, I believe we'll hear a lot more about Semantic Layers. They may very well become the foundation that helps organizations move from AI experiments to trusted AI outcomes.#Data #AI #SnowflakeSummit #Snowflake #AtScale#DataAI #EnterpriseAI #AgenticAI #Analytics #TheRavitShow