1 Wayfair Embraces Self-Service BI with AtScale In order to support Wayfair’s fast-growing business, the ecommerce retailer’s data infrastructure team embarked on a path to modernize their analytics infrastructure and move to a cloud platform. With mission-critical analysis taking place in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), Wayfair needed to identify an OLAP alternative that maintained query performance but with a more scalable cloud- friendly solution. As Wayfair shifted their data infrastructure to Google BigQuery, AtScale provided the semantic layer and dimensional analysis capability that accelerated performance with no need to extract data from the cloud data warehouse. CHALLENGE Transitioning to the cloud and enhancing business agility As a retailer, Wayfair constan

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