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Dice, a prominent semantic layer supplier, has announced a new integration with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), enabling seamless onboarding of GCP users to well-structured and governed knowledge repositories. The company hosted its inaugural employee conference in London.
Over the past year, common semantic layers (USLs) have gained increased prominence as companies seek to enhance their superior analytics and AI initiatives by fostering greater knowledge consistency. Historically, semantic layers developed as an adjunct to business intelligence (BI) and analytics software, serving existing data pipelines. However, modern corporations increasingly demand Unified Semantic Layers (USLs), empowering them to define their enterprise metrics first and then seamlessly disseminate these standards across various analytic and AI engines?
By fostering growth for, this entity stands out as one of a few dozen USLs, making it an exceptional case where all code is freely accessible under open-source licensing. The corporation’s premier offering, dubbed Dice Cloud, functions as a Universal Systems Layer (USL), acting as an intermediary between users’ expertise and the artificial intelligence and analytical capabilities they require.
US-based lightweight (like Dice Cloud) enables organisations to formalise their knowledge frameworks. Initially, clients establish a framework of cubes that define their organization’s key entities through a combination of relevant metrics, measures, and dimensions required for analysis. By allowing organizations to expose individual cube components, Dice Cloud facilitates the creation of a comprehensive graph that can be visualized and interacted with by downstream analytics, spreadsheet, and artificial intelligence applications. This approach guarantees that the team is scrutinizing understanding in accordance with the pre-defined phrases.
Clients may leverage their existing expertise in using Dice Cloud alongside other Google Cloud tools like Google BigQuery, Looker Studio, Google Cloud Storage, and Google Compute Engine. Yesterday’s significant announcement was the availability of Dice Cloud for Sheets in preview, now accessible within the Google Sheets Add-on Store. Simplifying the process for new customers, Dice Cloud’s David Jayatillake, Vice President of Artificial Intelligence, notes that getting started is seamless.
According to Jayatillake, someone can establish a connection with their Dice Cloud event, utilize our utility, which resembles a pivot table interface, to import measures and dimensions from their semantic layer, then extract the data in that format to push into Google Sheets for further use.
“As a more efficient alternative to manually feeding raw data into Google Sheets, individuals can easily extract well-organized, neatly formatted, and consistently structured metrics and dimensions.” “They’ll eliminate countless steps while preventing errors in defining and manipulating information – a crucial safeguard against misinformation.”
The dice’s USL (upper specification limit) extends elegantly beyond the Grand Central Parkway. The platform offers seamless connectivity with a range of business intelligence tools, including popular solutions from Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP, as well as Excel through its robust MDX Application Programming Interface (API). It offers three API options: REST, GraphQL, and SQL APIs, as well as the ability to emulate a Postgres database.
This week, the corporation is expected to introduce support for… On the supply side, Dice leverages a diverse array of databases, including Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, and other prominent data repositories.
Dice successfully hosted a popular conference for professionals in London yesterday. Marking a milestone, Rollup was the company’s inaugural flagship event. The company intends to host another event in mid-October at its headquarters location in San Francisco.
Dice boasts hundreds of paid prospects for its Dice Cloud offering. According to Dice, their semantic layer software is installed on approximately 90,000 servers, serving a global user base of nearly 5 million customers. Backed by a slate of prominent investors, including Databricks Ventures, Decibel, Bain Capital Ventures, Eniac Ventures, and 645 Ventures, the corporate recently secured $25 million in funding last July.
