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Astrato + MotherDuck: The Analytics Stack Built for Customer-Facing Use Cases

Astrato Team

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4 min

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KPI Tree: Stop guessing why the number moved

Break any headline metric into its drivers – in one view, on live warehouse data.

Astrato Team

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6 min

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Snowflake Cortex LLM Generated Insights + Tables into Slack & Teams

Did you know you can add Snowflake GenAI Insight Summaries powered by Snowflake (and table/view reporting) to Slack & Teams, directly using Snowflake? 

Piers Batchelor

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10 min

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11 Best Practices to Optimize Snowflake

Snowflake’s powerful platform is architecturally different from almost every traditional database system and cloud data warehouse. Snowflake has completely separate compute and storage, and both tiers of the platform are near-instantly elastic.

Piers Batchelor

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8 Best Omni Analytics Competitors and Alternatives for 2026

Looking for Omni Analytics competitors in 2026? Compare the 8 best Omni Analytics alternatives including Astrato, Looker, Sigma, and Hex for modern BI.

Nikola Gemeš

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18 min

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9 Best ThoughtSpot Competitors and Alternatives for 2026

Looking for ThoughtSpot competitors in 2026? Compare the 9 best ThoughtSpot alternatives including Astrato, Power BI, Tableau, Sigma, Hex, and more.

Nikola Gemeš

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17 min

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Legacy BI vs. Cloud-Native BI: What’s Actually Different in 2026

Five real architectural differences between legacy BI and cloud-native BI — plus a shortlist of modern platforms by use case.

Nikola Gemeš

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8 min

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AI-Native BI for Snowflake: A Buyer's Framework

How to evaluate AI-native BI platforms for Snowflake without a data engineer. A 5-question framework and role-specific guidance for 2026.

Nikola Gemeš

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9 min

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Embedded BI for Databricks: AI/BI vs. Third-Party in 2026

Databricks AI/BI now embeds dashboards externally. So when do you still need a third-party platform? A decision guide for data platform teams.

Nikola Gemeš

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9 min

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Embedded Analytics for BigQuery: Best BI Platforms 2026

Compare embedded analytics platforms for BigQuery — Astrato, Sigma, Looker, Looker Studio, Power BI, Metabase. Built for product teams in Slack.

Nikola Gemeš

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Self-Service BI on Snowflake: Guide for Non-Technical Teams

Every BI vendor claims self-service in 2026. A four-level spectrum, five evaluation questions, and an honest comparison of the platforms that compete on Snowflake.

Nikola Gemeš

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How Impensa Built a Healthcare Supply Chain Data Platform in 60 Days

Astrato Analytics

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5 Snowflake Features I Can't Live Without

As a Senior Product Manager at Astrato Analytics and a Snowflake Data Superhero, I’m often asked which Snowflake features are indispensable in my daily workflow. Snowflake's capabilities go far beyond traditional data warehouses, and there are a few standout features that make a real difference in how we at Astrato create innovative data solutions.

Piers Batchelor

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4 min

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What is cloud data visualization?

Piers Batchelor

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The most popular Sankey use cases

We've just rolled out our Sankey chart - continuing to revolutionise the game for how you see and interact with your live data in the cloud.

Astrato Team

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1 min

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Five tips to create effective data visualization dashboards

It’s not enough to work towards becoming a data-driven organization: to be successful on this journey, you need to take everyone along for the ride. And the best way to support that growth is by ensuring that data is understood and appreciated by everyone involved.

Piers Batchelor

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5 min

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Astrato 2024 roundup: A Year of Innovations and Growth

As 2024 comes to a close, it’s the perfect time to reflect on an extraordinary year for Astrato. Packed with groundbreaking innovations, impactful collaborations, and a growing community of customers, this year marked a significant evolution in our journey to redefine self-service analytics. Here are some highlights that made 2024 truly exceptional:

Astrato Team

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2 min

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Astrato Achieves SOC 2 Type II Attestation, Reinforcing Commitment to Enterprise-Grade Security

Astrato, a leading provider of cloud-native business intelligence solutions, is pleased to announce the successful completion of its Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type II audit. This achievement underscores Astrato’s ongoing dedication to maintaining the highest standards of data security and operational excellence for its customers.

Astrato Team

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Introducing Associative Filters in Astrato: Ask smarter questions, get better answers

Associative Filters are super-smart filters that uncover patterns traditional filters can’t. They handle large data sets, adapt dynamically to new information, and let users define multiple rules and relationships between them. Simply put, Associative Filters let you explore data by relationships, not just exclusions. 

Astrato Team

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Astrato vs. Amazon QuickSight: A Deep Dive into Modern BI and Data Apps

In the ever-evolving world of business intelligence, two tools—Astrato and Amazon QuickSight—offer distinct approaches to analytics. If you’re deciding between them, understanding their strengths and limitations is key, especially when considering self-service analytics, live writeback, and data science integration.

Astrato Team

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4 min

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Event round-up: The Evolution of BI & Data Products: Self-Service BI & Data Apps with Snowflake

Business Intelligence (BI) is evolving—fast. At our latest event, industry leaders shared how self-service BI and data apps are changing the game. With Astrato and Snowflake, organizations are ditching legacy tools, scaling smarter, and unlocking new revenue streams.

Astrato Team

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3 min

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Key Considerations when Choosing an Embedded BI Tool

The field of Business Intelligence (BI) moves fast. Cloud computing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT) have all been hugely disruptive, making it hard to see what’s a fad and what’s here to stay. Embedded BI is the latter.

Piers Batchelor

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3 min

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A Guide to Snowflake Data Types

Numeric counts, location, time, true or false statements. All of these data types have potential business value, so organizations need a data storage solution that accommodates them. Snowflake does this (and more).

Piers Batchelor

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4 min

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