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AI Can Write SQL. It Still Fails as an Analyst.

AI Can Write SQL. It Still Fails as an Analyst.

The first demo of any AI analyst feels magical. Show me Q4 revenue? AI nails it. Show me user growth? A breathtaking interactive infographic in 5 minutes. AI is getting better and better in writing SQL. Anyone, anywhere can now just ask about the data. And if I were heading a data team right now, […]

Co-founder and CEO

4 minute read
OSI is Cool: Why Honeydew Joined the Open Semantic Interchange
Over the years at Honeydew, we’ve built our foundation on one simple belief: if you want people to trust data - whether from dashboards, AI agents, or BI tools - your semantics have to be consistent, understandable, and shared. We’ve fought the typical misalignments: one tool calls something “activeusers”, another calls it “usersengaged”, a third […]
David Krakov
Co-founder and CEO
7 minute read
Honeydew and Snowflake Semantic Views
Last week, Snowflake announced the availability of Semantic Views. Let’s talk about how Semantic Views and Honeydew integrate: commonalities, differences, and how to data mesh Honeydew with your Semantic Views. Lets start with, What is a Snowflake Semantic View? A Semantic View is a schema-level object that: 1. Stores a single Cortex semantic model 2. […]
David Krakov
Co-founder and CEO
5 minute read
Our 2025 Roadmap: From BI to AI
TL;DR Every second deployment of Honeydew today is to help an AI agent to understand a business. This is changing us and the whole industry around us - our plans, our priorities, and our pricing. Honeydew’s Job in 2024 Organizations use Honeydew to create a source of truth for diverse metrics and data sources: from […]
David Krakov
Co-founder and CEO
3 minute read
How we teach data to an LLM
Introduction How many times did you hear thoughts like “You just connect an LLM to the data and you can ask it whatever you want!”, “AI is so smart that you just connect it to your data and it would understand and generate the queries for you!” or my favorite “Its magic, you plug the […]
Nir Yalin
Head of Data Solutions
10 minute read
Excel is the Best BI Tool, and It’s Not Going Anywhere – Just Ask Your CFO
Over my career as a Director of Data and BI team lead, writing blog posts has never been in my comfort zone. I thought I’d give it a try because what I’m about to share is something everyone in the data space needs to hear. Just like I’m not fully comfortable writing blog posts, many […]
Nir Yalin
Head of Data Solutions
6 minute read
Where to build business logic on Snowflake: a PowerBI case study
In his article "Where to Build Business Logic on Snowflake: A PowerBI Case Study," David Krakov explores the trade-offs between different BI architectures using Snowflake: affecting cost, performance, modeling, and governance. This article explores these trade-offs using PowerBI as a case study. To learn more, you can read the full article in the following link […]
David Krakov
Co-founder and CEO
6 minute read
Talk to Your Data (Loudly)
How do you talk to your data? A question that not too long ago, when said out loud, would make people look at you funny and move to the opposite side of the subway car. It’s real now. Why would you talk to your data? Because, in an enterprise, data holds useful answers to get […]
David Krakov
Co-founder and CEO
4 minute read
Strategic Decisions in Data Reporting : where to build metrics?
Adam Morton met David Krakov, Honeydew’s CEO, and talked about… well… semantic layers 🙂 One of the first questions we ask in discovery calls is where the metrics reside. Data teams build metrics in ETL, during ingestion, in BI, or in a semantic layer. Choosing where to build your metrics isn't just a technical decision; […]
David Krakov
Co-founder and CEO
4 minute read
On the value of Expressiveness in Semantic Layers
ccasionally (ok, very commonly) I find myself in a conversation comparing different Semantic Layers. And while many times the conversation veers towards the fundamentals like performance, cost, or tool support, I think there is one crucial component lacking. ex·pres·sive·ness noun 1. the quality of effectively conveying a thought or feeling. "you will be floored by […]
David Krakov
Co-founder and CEO