In a previous blog post following this series about AI, I talked about Ask Sigma, a new AI powered tool that aims to turning dashboards into smart assistants that behave like real data analysts. However, these features come with real costs. Beyond just dollars, companies...
Sigma provides multiple AI-driven capabilities to help users gain insights more quickly. Particularly, Ask Sigma is a natural language query (NLQ) tool that enables users to explore their data by asking questions and receiving AI-generated insights. It supports both factual queries and visual outputs like...
Sigma provides multiple AI-driven capabilities to help users gain insights more quickly. Its strategy centers on empowering every team to work with data more effectively by integrating artificial intelligence directly into its platform. By enabling natural language queries, AI-assisted formula creation, and direct access to...
As I work with AI agents like Claude Code on new problems, I've noticed a fascinating pattern: Ask me to code a web page and the AI can make it appear like magic. Ask me to use the same AI to clean up a messy...
Ladies and gentlemen, we're just now entering the part of the year that so many of us look forward to for months and months: The holiday season is just around the corner. Celebrations, time with friends and family, great meals, the works — It's finally...
Snowflake recently released a suite of built-in functions that allow users to leverage AI functionality directly through SQL. These functions leverage powerful models (e.g. Anthropic, Meta, Arctic, etc) that are fully hosted inside Snowflake and can be used for a wide range of tasks. In this...
One of my kids recently dragged me back into fighting games. Some from my childhood (Street Fighter) and others completely new to me, like Guilty Gear. Every button press can mean the difference between glory and getting absolutely destroyed. It's been a blast. At InterWorks, we...
We're living in an era of unprecedented AI possibilities. Every day brings new demonstrations of what's theoretically achievable, from agentic AI systems that can manage complex workflows to natural language interfaces that make data accessible to anyone. Yet for most enterprises, there's a stark gap...
The conversation around AI governance has reached a critical inflection point. While many organizations still view governance as a necessary bureaucratic hurdle that slows down innovation, forward-thinking companies are discovering something counterintuitive: AI governance isn't just about managing risk—it's about accelerating growth. This shift in perspective...
Data quality has always been the foundation of successful analytics and AI initiatives, but it's also been one of the most resource-intensive challenges organizations face. We've all heard the statistics: Data scientists spend 80% of their time cleaning data, poor data quality costs organizations millions...
Self-service analytics has been the holy grail of data teams for decades. We've all heard the promise: Empower business users to answer their own questions without constantly bothering the data engineering team. Yet despite years of investment in tools and training, most organizations are still...
I’m seeing so many people in the data space say that companies need to get their data right before they can do AI (we may even be guilty at times). It is simply wrong. Look, I’m not saying data hygiene isn’t important, but telling people they...
In a world of daily technological advances, many business analysts and executives continue to lean on the comfort of their crosstabs as a preferred mode of consuming their corporation’s data. A crosstab, more commonly known as a data table, displays a relationship between two or...
Change management is hard. With AI changing our businesses, it’s also crucial. I’ve been thinking about change management lately through the lens of "Switch" by Chip and Dan Heath. If you haven't read it, the book uses a powerful metaphor: Our rational mind is the...
“Don’t Panic” The words printed on the cover of Douglas Adams’s Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ring true in the case of disasters such as this. Luckily, thanks to Sigma’s API, restoring a lost connection does not need to be such a headache. I am going to...
Salesforce just made headlines for cutting 4,000 customer service jobs, with CEO Marc Benioff proudly declaring he "needs less heads" now that AI agents handle half their support interactions. Microsoft chopped 15,000 roles this year. Meta cut 3,600. The message from Silicon Valley is clear:...
In the final part of our series breaking down common data and analytics pain points, we explore tool selection and its impact on your data ecosystem and end users. You can read about other common challenges in our full white paper, but today we'll be...
In case you don’t already know what Sigma is, it's this cool cloud-based analytics platform that empowers users to easily explore, visualize and collaborate on data using a familiar spreadsheet interface. However, it differs from traditional analytics tools with its actions that allow developers to...
I have to admit, when I am teaching courses on Tableau, I oftentimes try to be perfect. Not to say that I am a perfectionist, but I just want the training to go smoothly and for the learners and participants to feel like they’ve gotten...
In the fourth part of our series on data and analytics pain points, I talk about user adoption and ROI is a pain along with some solutions that can make this biggest pain easier to manage. For more insights on other common challenges, I encourage...
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