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Common semantic layer supplier Dice this week unveiled new integration with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that may streamline GCP consumer entry to information that’s well-modeled and ruled. The corporate additionally held its first consumer convention, in London.
Common semantic layers (USLs) have grown in significance over the previous yr as corporations search for larger information consistency of their superior analytics and AI initiatives. Semantic layers historically sat subsequent to the BI and analytic device, however corporations now are demanding USLs that enable them to outline their enterprise metrics as soon as after which push that out to a number of analytic and AI engines.
That is serving to to spice up the fortunes of Dice, which makes considered one of a handful of USLs and one of many solely ones that’s absolutely open supply. The corporate’s flagship product, referred to as Dice Cloud, serves as a USL that sits between prospects’ information and the AI and analytic engines they need to use.
A USL like Dice Cloud permits organizations to outline their information fashions. Prospects begin by creating cubes that outline the enterprise entities when it comes to the metrics, measures, and dimensions they need to use. Dice Cloud then permits organizations to show elements of their cubes, which collectively compose a graph, as views to the downstream analytics, spreadsheets, and AI apps. This method ensures that the group is analyzing information in keeping with the phrases they’ve predefined.
Cubes and views are uncovered in Dice’s semantic layer (Picture courtesy Dice)
Prospects might already use Dice Cloud with information on the Google Cloud Platform, together with Google BigQuery, Looker Studio, Google Cloud Storage, and Google Compute Engine. The massive information yesterday is the help for Dice Cloud for Sheets (now in preview), and that it’s accessible within the Google Sheets Extension Retailer. That makes it simpler for a Google Sheets buyer to get going with Dice Cloud, mentioned David Jayatillake, VP of AI for Dice.
“Somebody can go and set up that, connect with their Dice Cloud occasion, and begin utilizing our utility, which feels very like a pivot desk interface, to drag measures and dimensions from their semantic layer, after which extract the info in that format to push into Google Sheets and use it from there,” Jayatillake mentioned.
“So fairly than somebody having to drag in uncooked information into Google Sheets and manipulate it, they will simply pull properly formatted, ruled, constantly outlined metrics and dimensions,” he continued. “They’ll save many steps, however they will additionally keep away from getting the definition of knowledge incorrect [and avoid getting] the manipulation of knowledge incorrect that they’d do usually.”
Dice’s USL extends properly past GCP. On the consumption facet, it options pre-built integrations to BI instruments from Tableau, ThoughtSpot, Metabase, and Apache Superset, amongst others, in addition to Excel through an MDX API. It options REST, GraphQL, and SQL APIs, and also can emulate a Postgres database.
This week, the corporate is anticipated to introduced help for Lightdash. On the supply facet, Dice helps a variety of databases, together with BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon Redshift, ClickHouse, SingleStore, and Firebolt, amongst others.
Dice hosted a consumer convention yesterday in London. Dubbed Rollup, the occasion was the primary bodily occasion for the corporate. It plans on internet hosting one other occasion in mid-October in San Francisco, the place it’s primarily based.
Dice has a number of hundred paying prospects of Dice Cloud. On the open supply entrance, Dice says its semantic layer software program is put in on 90,000 servers and utilized by 4.9 million customers around the globe. The corporate, which raised $25 million in July, is backed by Databricks Ventures, Decibel, Bain Capital Ventures, Eniac Ventures, and 645 Ventures.
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