Every private equity firm we speak to runs some of the most sophisticated investment operations in financial services, and almost all of them do their quarterly reporting in Excel. A senior analyst spends three to five weeks each quarter pulling data from the fund administrator,...
Building a secure data lakehouse in Snowflake is only half the battle. The harder problem is getting that data in front of business teams without exposing sensitive personal information or requiring everyone to learn SQL. A hands-on lab at Snowflake Summit 2026, "Activate Snowflake Data With...
Most BI tools are great at telling you something is wrong and then leaving you to go fix it yourself. A dashboard flags a shrinking pipeline, someone notices, and then they alt-tab into their inbox, their CRM, and their calendar to actually do anything about...
For years, designing a data lake meant choosing a side. You either built entirely within the AWS ecosystem (Glue, Athena, EMR) or you centralized inside the Snowflake Data Cloud. Choosing one usually meant dealing with painful data duplication, expensive pipeline maintenance, and vendor lock-in to...
At a recent Snowflake conference, a standout hands-on lab demonstrated a powerful architectural shift: running Neo4j graph analytics directly inside the Snowflake Data Cloud. This was a hands-on workshop teaching how to use graph analytics (a powerful way to analyze networks of connected things) applied...
For years, enterprise data teams have faced a frustrating choice: a data lake (cheap, flexible, but a governance nightmare) or a data warehouse (fast, secure, but expensive and locked to a single vendor). At a recent Snowflake conference lab, "Power Analytics and AI Wherever Your...
If your Tableau connections use a shared Snowflake service account, meaning a single username and password shared among multiple Tableau Creators, I have some bad news and some good news. The bad news: A change to Snowflake security is about to break those connections. The...
This blog is featured in our AI Use Case Library of real AI solutions. The Problem A lot of organizations have Snowflake. Fewer have Cortex enabled. The gap between those two things is almost never technical. Data teams at financial institutions, government agencies and healthcare organizations watch their counterparts in...
I feel like I generally make a comment in one of these roundups around this time of year about, "Oh, can you believe [Insert Year] is halfway over??" But surely this year, I have actual cause for it, right? Has 2026 not just absolutely flown by? I...
This blog is featured in our AI Use Case Library of real AI solutions. The Problem A client came to us with a mandate from their CTO. They wanted their business users to ask questions of their Snowflake data in plain English, and specifically from inside Claude Desktop, not...
With the advent of AI, nearly every talking point in the datasphere revolves in some way around how to leverage AI in your business. While there have never been more accessible tools to get started with AI, it can feel incredibly overwhelming via choice paralysis....
Every organization right now feels the pressure to "do AI." Executives want chatbots, business users want to ask questions in plain language and get instant answers, and someone in the boardroom saw a demo of natural language querying so now it's on the roadmap. Demand...
In my very first Sigma blog, I will show you how to create a dynamic sales spreadsheet with a custom “Create Note per Row” and comment history workflow. The idea came through my recent client project within a finance team. We had a weekly sales breakdown table showing closed deals, product...
Why a School Directory Needs More Than Dashboards School directories rarely fail because of complexity. They fail because of process. In most environments: The warehouse holds the authoritative staff and student data Dashboards display it Updates happen somewhere else That separation creates delay, duplication and mistrust. Administrators export...
Months are kinda feeling like weeks this year, right? I'm not the only one feeling that? Somehow, we're about a quarter of the way through 2026, and things aren't feeling like they're slowing down anytime soon. But that's okay! Whatever the year brings, the InterWorks blog...
We had 257 PDFs nobody could search easily — technical manuals for the medical devices our team supports every day. When a tech needed an answer, it was there, buried on page 2 of a file three folders deep in Box. Now, they just ask...
Can your smartwatch tell when you had a bad week before you admit it? We built a full data pipeline from Apple Watch to Snowflake to Tableau to find out — and what came back was more honest than we expected. Click here to see the...
Hey there, folks! This wild ride keeps right on going, doesn't it? Nevertheless, so do we! This month on the InterWorks blog, we had a record-setting number of blogs come out. From start to finish, we managed to get 32 blogs out into the aether, which is...
A client came to us with a mandate from their CTO: They wanted their business users to be able to ask natural language questions against their Snowflake data, specifically from Claude Desktop rather than Snowflake Intelligence or a custom Streamlit app in Snowflake. Claude Desktop...
This is part of an ongoing series where I discuss Terraform and its specific benefits (or drawbacks) to data teams. What This Blog is Not Meant to Be This blog is not meant to be a How to Terraform Your Snowflake Data Warehouse blog. If you are...
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