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Big DataData ConsumptionData ModelingOntologiesSemantic Layer
Timbr Measures vs. Custom SQL Aggregations in Databricks
Databricks supports measures through ad-hoc SQL, Spark, and Delta Live Tables—but these can be complex and hard to manage at ...
May 20, 2025
Big DataData ModelingOntologiesSemantic Layer
Happy Ontologing!: Turn Data Chaos into Work Delight
Introduction For data pros – engineers, analysts, and developers – tackling messy, multi-source data often feels like wrestling a hydra: ...
March 14, 2025
Business IntelligenceData ConsumptionData ModelingOntologiesSemantic Layer
Mano a Mano: Proprietary BI vs Headless BI SQL Measures
Organizations often find themselves juggling multiple Business Intelligence (BI) tools, each with its own way of defining and managing metrics. ...
February 18, 2025
Business IntelligenceData ConsumptionData ModelingOntologiesSemantic Layer
Why SQL Beats DAX Hands Down for Power BI Metrics
For Power BI users, DAX measures have been the go-to approach for defining business metrics within reports and dashboards. However, ...
February 10, 2025
Business IntelligenceData ConsumptionData ModelingOntologiesSemantic Layer
Why Every Business Needs a Self-Serve Metric Store
Introduction Imagine two departments in your company calculating ‘Customer Churn Rate’ differently, leading to strategic misalignment and confusion in decision-making. ...
February 4, 2025
Business IntelligenceData ConsumptionData ModelingOntologiesSemantic Layer
Timbr SQL Metric Store: Superior Metrics to Power Analytics
Tools like Power BI traditionally rely on measures defined with DAX. DAX introduces inefficiencies when dealing with complex data models, ...
January 1, 2025
Business IntelligenceData ConsumptionSemantic Layer
Empowering Excel Users to Retrieve Data with Natural Language
Timbr NLQ allows properly authorized business users to retrieve data with natural language, transforming complex SQL queries into intuitive, conversation-driven ...
November 7, 2024
Big DataData ModelingOntologiesSemantic Layer
Powerful SQL Ontologies: The Next Generation of Data Modeling
SQL ontologies provide a practical, flexible way to model data, replacing traditional ERD structures with semantic models that simplify querying ...
October 9, 2024
Big DataData ConsumptionData ModelingSemantic Layer
Semantic Layer or Creating Views Forever?
Aren’t you tired of creating Views over and over again? How much time are you wasting managing Views? Can you ...
September 26, 2024
Big DataData ModelingSemantic Layer
Timbr Powers the Ontology-based Semantic Data Fabric
Introduction Enterprises need flexible, scalable, and efficient ways to manage their ever-growing datasets. Traditional data architectures, such as centralized data ...
September 19, 2024
Big DataData ConsumptionData ModelingREST APISemantic Layer
Building Better Data Applications: How Timbr Powers Flexibility, Performance, and Security
Developers of data applications often face challenges like complex queries, integrating multiple data sources, and ensuring high performance and real-time ...
September 15, 2024
Big DataData ModelingSemantic Layer
Data Relationships: Then and Now
A Comparison of SQL Relationships and Timbr’s Semantic Relationships Traditional SQL databases use primary and foreign keys mainly for data ...
September 10, 2024
Big DataData ModelingLLMs and ChatGPTSemantic Layer
Managing Relationships in Modern Data Lakes
Introduction Data lakes provide organizations with a robust solution for storing vast volumes of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data in ...
September 3, 2024
Big DataData ModelingLLMs and ChatGPTSemantic Layer
Centralizing Business Logic with Ontology-Based Semantic Layers
Semantic layers have become a standard requirement for modern data architectures, creating a unified view of data that simplifies management ...
August 29, 2024
Big DataData ModelingSemantic Layer
Semantic Data Mesh for Scalable Data Management
Data mesh is an innovative data architecture that challenges traditional centralized approaches, like data warehouses and data lakes, by decentralizing ...
August 22, 2024
Big DataData ModelingSemantic Layer
Use Databricks Notebook to Model an Intelligent Semantic Layer
Timbr’s native integration with Databricks enables fully declarative definition of semantic models, so business context, relationships and business rules are defined as part ...
July 25, 2024
Big DataLLMs and ChatGPTOntologiesSemantic Layer
Leveraging SQL Knowledge Graphs for Accurate LLM SQL Query Generation
In a previous post, we discussed the need to include knowledge graphs as an integral part of an enterprise LLM ...
July 18, 2024
Big DataData ModelingSemantic Layer
From ETL to Semantic Model: Modeling a Semantic Layer in Databricks with Timbr
Timbr’s native integration with Databricks offers a novel approach that combines the power of ETL processes with the advantages of ...
July 4, 2024
Big DataData ModelingOntologiesSemantic Layer
Timbr Seamlessly Integrates with Databricks’ Unity Catalog
Timbr Intelligent Semantic Layer integrates with Databricks’s Unity Catalog Introduction The Timbr Platform, combined with Databricks, offers a powerful solution ...
June 19, 2024
Big DataData ModelingLLMs and ChatGPTOntologiesSemantic Layer
Why You Need to Consider Knowledge Graphs in Your LLM Strategy
Introduction Part 1 of 2 Large language models (LLMs) and semantic knowledge graphs (KGs) are two technologies that offer unique strengths, each ...
May 23, 2024
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Easily Transform ERD Drawings into Intelligent Semantic Models with ChatGPT
Introduction Timbr users often ask for a straightforward method to transform their legacy data model into an SQL ontology design ...
May 23, 2024
Big DataData ModelingOntologiesSemantic Layer
Inheritance in SQL to Power Complex Analytics
Introduction One core of data management in relational databases lies in accurately modeling real-world hierarchies, a task that becomes exponentially ...
April 8, 2024
Big DataData ModelingSemantic Layer
Transforming Microsoft Synapse Data Models into Semantic Layers
Introduction Microsoft Synapse Common Data Models (CDM) and Industry Data Models (IDMs) enable data product interoperability. Both model types help users ...
March 12, 2024
Big DataNewsSemantic Layer
Timbr.ai Partners with Databricks to Enable the Intelligent Semantic Delta Lake
Today we are thrilled to unveil our partnership with Databricks, a leading platform for large-scale data processing and analytics. This ...
February 20, 2024
BigQueryGoogle AnalyticsOntologiesSemantic Layer
Boost Google Analytics 4 ROI with a Semantic Ontology
A standardized semantic model for Google Analytics 4 reduces the complexity of data handling and transforms it into an intuitive ...
February 15, 2024
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From Integration to Insight in Under 10 Minutes
https://timbr.ai/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Int-To-Ins-10Min-Second-Edition-With-Soundtrack-2.mp4#t=,158 Introduction The journey from data integration to deriving insightful analytics is nowadays more challenging than ever for reasons familiar ...
February 13, 2024
Data ModelingOntologiesSemantic Layer
Timbr Automates Creation of Data Model Relationships
How does Timbr accelerate engineering of a semantic layer on top of data? In this part 2 of the series ...
November 23, 2023
Data ModelingSemantic Layer
Timbr Automates Intelligent Semantic Modeling of Data
How does Timbr accelerate engineering of a semantic layer on top of data? In this article, we explain Timbr’s advanced ...
November 15, 2023
Big DataData ModelingSemantic Layer
Timbr & Databricks Lakehouse Deliver an Insights First Architecture to Power Enterprise Data Consumption
Thanks to Rajesh Iyer, Global Head of AI & ML for Banking, Capital Markets, P&C, Life & Health Insurance at ...
October 25, 2023
Big DataBusiness IntelligenceData ModelingSemantic Layer
The Semantic Layer for Databricks
Timbr Intelligent Semantic Layer with Databricks as the virtualization engine Introduction Organizations are dealing with increasingly large and complex datasets ...
October 25, 2023
Big DataData ConsumptionREST APISemantic Layer
Semantic Swagger Self-documenting API for every Semantic Model
Introduction In the constantly changing digital ecosystems, millions of developers globally rely on REST APIs to power their applications, streamline ...
October 3, 2023
Data ModelingOntologiesSemantic Layer
Why Your Data Model Needs Semantics and Relationships
There is a built-in discrepancy between how businesses conceptualize their business domain, and how this conceptualization gets translated into concrete ...
September 26, 2023
Big DataData ModelingREST APISemantic Layer
Utilizing Timbr’s Semantic Layer for Rapid Data Interoperability in Healthcare
Intro HL7®’s FHIR® – Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources’ standard is a set of rules and specifications for exchanging electronic healthcare data. ...
August 10, 2023
Data ConsumptionREST APISemantic Layer
Timbr’s REST API blends the best features of REST and GraphQL
Introduction REST API and GraphQL are the popular options that developers use to retrieve data for websites and web applications. ...
August 8, 2023
Big DataBusiness IntelligenceData ScienceGraph AlgorithmsSemantic Layer
Delivering Hyper-Personalized Products and Services Fast and with Minimal Effort
Introduction Hyper-personalization involves leveraging data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and real-time customer data to create highly tailored and individualized strategies ...
June 8, 2023
Big DataBusiness IntelligenceData ModelingOntologiesSemantic Layer
Investigating Royalty and Offshore Companies with Timbr
Introduction Over the years, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has exposed hundreds of thousands of documents regarding offshore ...
April 12, 2022
Big DataData ModelingOntologiesSemantic Layer
Relationships, inheritance and hierarchies in SQL to accelerate time to value
Business users ask questions in business terms. Formulating the SQL queries that answer these questions require discovery and understanding of ...
March 22, 2022
Big DataSemantic Layer
Timbr Intelligent Semantic Layer: 360° SQL access to data without JOINs
SQL queries to the intelligent semantic layer are no different in syntax from the SQL queries to the database known ...
January 27, 2022
Big DataData ModelingData ScienceOntologiesSemantic Layer
Understanding data and accelerating consumption with Timbr’s Semantic Hierarchies & Classifications
Datalakes, data warehouses, big data engines and most databases default back to SQL as their main query language, but anyone ...
January 6, 2022
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Empowering Tableau with Timbr Intelligent Semantic Layer
Introduction Tableau is an interactive, self-service reporting and analytics tool that enables users to integrate and combine data from multiple ...
November 29, 2021
Big DataBigQueryBusiness IntelligenceData ModelingGoogle AnalyticsSemantic Layer
Connecting Google Looker Studio to Timbr Intelligent Semantic Layer
In a previous post we discussed how an off-the-shelf, customizable SQL knowledge graph turns Google Analytics 360 into a user-friendly strategic ...
August 26, 2021
Big DataData ModelingOntologiesSemantic Layer
Creating a Dietary Recommendations Knowledge Graph with Timbr
What should we eat if we have certain dietary restrictions or pressing medical conditions? To answer this question we need ...
July 19, 2021
Big DataBusiness IntelligenceSemantic Layer
The Intelligent Semantic Layer enables PowerBI with advanced analytics across multiple data sources
Introduction Power BI is the highly popular business analytics service by Microsoft. It provides interactive visualizations and business intelligence capabilities ...
June 27, 2021
NewsSemantic Layer
Timbr.ai recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor
I am proud to announce that Timbr.ai has been named by Gartner a 2021 Cool Vendor for Data Management*. Timbr’s ...
June 1, 2021
Big DataBigQueryGoogle AnalyticsGraph AlgorithmsSemantic Layer
Delivering fast recommendations from Google Analytics 360 SQL Knowledge Graph with RAPIDS cuGraph
In part 1 of this series, we introduced the GA360 SQL Knowledge Graph that timbr created, which acts as a user-friendly strategic ...
May 4, 2021
OntologiesOWL
Are you stuck with an OWL Ontology?
Are you stuck with an ontology that you cannot leverage for the benefit of your organization? You are a chief ...
March 16, 2021
OntologiesSemantic Layer
Unlocking the Power of Data: The Magic of the Intelligent Semantic Layer
Introduction Timbr is the intelligent semantic layer based on SQL knowledge graph technology. What are the differences between Timbr and ...
February 6, 2021
BigQueryGoogle AnalyticsOntologiesSemantic Layer
The Formidable Google Analytics 360 SQL Knowledge Graph
In this part 1 of 2, we explain the features and uses of the GA360 SQL knowledge graph. An off-the-shelf, ...
January 21, 2021
Data ModelingOntologiesSemantic Layer
Don’t leave information behind: Replace data modeling with powerful virtual SQL Ontologies
There is a built-in discrepancy between how businesses conceptualize their business domain, and how this conceptualization gets translated into concrete ...
