A few months ago, a friend sent me a link to an NPR Music podcast episode about identifying the defining Millennial song. Of course, no single song can define an entire group of people born within a 15-year span, but I really enjoyed pondering what...
A B2B order fulfillment scenario. It's common to build implementations around transactional systems: an application writing new records into a database, an event triggering an orchestration step or a stream of individual transactions landing somewhere to be processed being common examples of it. A question that...
Data Analysis questions are among the most common questions I see from clients on the Assist desk. Now that AI has entered the chat, so to speak, I get a lot of questions about using AI to analyze, clean and work with data to make...
Analytics teams have spent years bringing software-engineering discipline to the data warehouse: version control, code review, CI, automated tests. The layer that has stubbornly resisted that treatment is the presentation layer, the dashboards and reports themselves. They tend to live as opaque objects inside a...
Honestly, if you asked me when my story started, I'd say it started when I was born. But if we're being reasonable about it, the real answer is pre-K, playing Command & Conquer with my dad on our home PC. That's one of my earliest memories,...
After more than a decade of service, we're sunsetting the Color Tool for Tableau. If you built high-stakes Tableau dashboards in 2014, you remember the pain. Getting your brand colors into Tableau meant hand-editing XML in a preferences file, one hex code at a time. So,...
Data teams have never had more to work with. Cloud warehouses handle scale that used to require infrastructure teams. AI models are accessible with a single API call. MCP servers, pre-built connectors and low-code platforms mean that stitching capabilities together has never been faster. The...
We replaced a seven-field form with a single sentence. Consultants type what they worked on — or import their Outlook calendar — and an AI assistant creates the time entry. The MVP was built in about 80 hours of development time using Claude Code, runs...
At the end of a long day, I was on zoom with my friend and coworker Austin. We were debating approaches to a feature where users could input scheduling for a forecasting app. Austin: But each time they start to input a row, that's going to cost them...
Last post, I built a chatbot that could answer any question about the InterWorks employee handbook. It worked well. Ask about parental leave in Germany, get the actual policy, cited, instantly. But a few weeks in, I noticed something: most of the questions people actually...
Another month, come and gone. Jeez, and what a month it was. In my personal life, I absolutely will not miss August 2026. Sayonara, arrivederci, adios to that accursed month. The "-ber" months are here, and I for one am grateful. In my professional life, however,...
In Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of this series, I made the case that data transformation is a leadership challenge first and a technology challenge second, and that the organizations that get it right are the ones that invest as much in the...
If you've ever typed something into Claude and gotten back a response that was technically “correct” but not at all what you meant, welcome to the club. It’s one of the most common questions I get from folks who are new to using AI in...
An AI agent connected to Snowflake will answer almost any question put to it. Whether that answer is grounded in something real, or in whatever data the agent could reach with the least friction, is a separate question, and for most organizations today it hasn't...
Snowflake CoWork is the current name for what was, until June 2026, called Snowflake Intelligence. The rebrand wasn't just a new label: The product expanded at the same time, from a chat window for asking questions about your data into a personal work agent. More...
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,...
There's a shift happening in analytics that I've been watching closely. The ask used to be "Can you build a dashboard?" which has now morphed into "Can you build a dashboard that's fast, cost-efficient, scalable and doesn't quietly drain our compute budget every time someone...
Let’s talk about money. Well, not really, I won’t present and Euros or Dollars here. Migration costs change from month to month, curating the numbers game is fairly impossible right now. But we can talk about, what money arguments to consider. Because let’s face it: Every...
Oh, what a year this is shaping up to be. Halfway through, and there's been no shortage of excitement around the InterWorks offices. We're looking forward to H2 of the year, pushing boundaries, learning and growing. That's the dual edged sword of looking forward into...
Some words can mean more than they are supposed to. Let’s say we are working with tool X right now. There are four major scenarios: Stay and optimize X. Expand X. Migrate from X to Y. Let X and Y coexist (on purpose). Afterwards we dive...
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