Bottom Line Up Front: Semantic layers are transforming how organizations manage and deliver data analytics by providing a unified, context-rich middleware that translates raw data into consistent, accessible insights across all business applications — from traditional BI tools to AI-powered agents. The data analytics landscape is...
Ladies and gentlemen, readers of all ages, I come bearing news: Now that June has passed, we are now halfway through the 2020's. Also, that means that we are now closer to the year 2050 than we are the year 2000. Now that I have inflicted...
Over the past 12 months, I've sat in more exec meetings, virtual strategy sessions and innovation labs than I can count. The message is crystal clear: AI is no longer a futuristic ambition — it's a strategic imperative. Yet many organizations across Mainland Europe are still...
The landscape of project management is evolving rapidly, and nowhere is this more evident than in the data and business intelligence space. As organizations increasingly recognize data as a strategic asset, the role of project managers in this domain has become more complex, demanding and...
Happy Analytics and BI Platform Magic Quadrant release to all who celebrate. Usually when these reports drop, I feel like I'm reading last year's news today. But this time, Gartner made genuinely astute observations about where this market is headed, even if their individual vendor...
The Databricks Data and AI Summit (DAIS) has once again brought together industry leaders, innovators and data enthusiasts from around the world. There were many exciting announcements, but I'll focus on the ones that stood out the most and will have an impact on the...
What Is Ethical Debt? The concept of ethical debt is starting to become a rigorous conversation among enterprise architects. The simple definition is an accumulation of risks from compromising proper ethical standards during development. Organizations are familiar with technical debts; we know they create lower-quality products...
Generative AI continues to capture our collective imagination, and if my feeds are any indication, we're finding new words to describe them all the time — chatbots, copilots, agents and more. But what's the reality here? What do practical AI workloads actually look like? Single-LLM Features These...
Welcome back, blog readers! We hope you all had an excellent May. Here in our home state of Oklahoma, the April showers that bring May flowers were a bit delayed this year. This upcoming week, for example, has central Oklahoma projected to be the wettest...
Conference season is in full swing! If you’re in the data warehousing and data cloud world at all, then you know we have a big one coming up next week. That’s right, Snowflake Summit 2025 officially kicks off next week from June 2-5 (that’s Monday...
Data Trends for 2025 Data has often been described as the new oil because the effective use of it can revolutionize our society just like fossil fuels have in the past. Consumers continue to create and share data at a faster pace and businesses continue to...
Here’s a question for you: If you were asked to define "Data Governance," how confident would you be in your answer? Considering how quickly the data space is changing, we wouldn’t blame you if your confidence in that answer isn’t as high as you’d like it...
What Happened? Last week brought a burst of AI announcements from the major players, each positioning their latest capabilities as breakthrough advances: OpenAI launched Codex research preview for parallel agent orchestration in coding. Microsoft Build delivered MCP Registry support for Windows, GitHub's evolution from "pair programming"...
On the flight out to Tableau Conference this past April, I set out to get up to speed on Tableau’s newest platform, Tableau Next. While digging in, one term kept popping up: Agentic AI. At first, it felt like just another bit of AI jargon....
Sometimes, just writing things down or saying things aloud helps me learn or understand something with more clarity and in greater depth. I’m sure that I’m not alone in my learning style and how I best absorb information into my brain. So, while trying to...
I’m seeing in today’s data landscape that many companies find themselves drowning in a sea of disjointed data. (Apologies in advance for the nautical references, I’m a fan of history and the Royal Navy in the 1800’s, so there will be more!) Imagine a scenario...
Snowflake has transformed how businesses manage and interact with data, providing a powerful platform for handling large-scale data processing, analytics and integration with modern tools. One of Snowflake’s standout capabilities is its integration with Document AI, which allows for automatic extraction of data from documents. In...
One of our biggest projects this year was a white paper collaboration between InterWorks and dbt, one of the most important players in the data space at the moment, titled "Semantic Layers in Action: Real-World Use Cases and Business Impact." Nor surprisingly, for white paper...
This summer, the European Union (EU) has released a new regulation regarding the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) in order to protect EU citizens. The Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), with the official name "Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the...
Hey, blog readers! We’re taking a quick detour from your usual tech-oriented how-to-guides, podcast replays and company culture pieces to do a bit of housekeeping on the blog. I don’t want to waste your time with my propensity to yap on entirely too long, so...
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