Cube, a San Francisco-based startup has raised $25 million in its latest funding round as it aims to enhance its semantic layer platform, which enables efficient data querying, transformation, and visualization. The latest funding round was led by Databricks Ventures and joined by all the previous investors including Decibel, Bain Capital Ventures, Eniac Ventures, and…
Analytics at the core is using data to derive insights for measuring and improving business performance [1]. To enable effective management, governance, and utilization of data and analytics, an increasing number of enterprises today are looking at deploying the data catalog, semantic layer, and data warehouse. But what exactly are these data and analytics tools…
Today’s organizations widely acknowledge the significance of leveraging data and analytics. Virtually every executive envisions establishing a data-driven organization. However, a survey conducted by New Vantage Partners reveals that only a mere 26.5% of companies have effectively achieved this transformative goal. Part of the problem lies in the ineffective collaboration between business and technology teams. In the…
A semantic layer is a way to represent data so that it can be easily understood by business users, making it easier for them to interpret and use it directly, without a dependence on data engineering teams. Wikipedia defines it as “a business representation of corporate data that helps end users access data autonomously using…
