Today, global business operations represent the norm, rather than the exception, intensifying the volumes of data collected. Not only does this increased bandwidth of data come with a rise in the amount of sensitive data collected, but regulatory considerations begin to not-so subtly creep into...
I had the pleasure of attending Sigma's inaugural Workflow conference this month, where I met more of their team, shared excitement with enthusiastic customers and got a deeper look at a tool that is genuinely shaking up how we think about business intelligence. Getting a window...
The nature of our work involves spending time with analytics leader and technology buyers across a diverse range of organizations with varying degrees of data and analytics maturity. This gives us a nuanced view of how data architecture patterns are evolving in the real world –...
Come with me as I discuss my learnings transitioning from working in Tableau to working in PowerBI Desktop. Learning a new BI tool is a great way to keep your skills sharp and today we see more and more businesses opting to use multiple tools. While...
If you've been following the InterWorks blog over the last year, you've likely noticed a huge uptick in Sigma content. Sigma is rapidly becoming one of the most exciting platforms in the data and analytics space, allowing users to built powerful AI apps on live...
This week, I’m in San Francisco attending Workflow, Sigma’s inaugural user conference, and I can’t help but think back to 2011 and my first Tableau conference in Las Vegas. That event was small and intimate – just a few hundred attendees, well before the press...
Want a visual walkthrough of this post? Check it out here, and follow along below: For the last five years, I’ve worked almost exclusively in Power BI across several roles, with most of my focus on revenue forecasting. Even before my BI journey began, I was...
Every year, all of InterWorks US descends on Oklahoma for a company-wide get together. We like to start the year with a fresh start by doing a brief recap of the prior year and then dive into the vision and plans for the coming year....
A few years ago, moving your data warehouse to the cloud was about getting faster queries. That story is over. Every major vendor has a cloud warehouse now. Speed is table stakes. Data platforms are the new enterprise application layer. So what does it mean that...
Sigma wrapped up the year with a product launch focused squarely on one thing: integrating AI with your business intelligence. The announcement centered on three major themes that push Sigma deeper into the AI-powered analytics space while maintaining the governance and security teams need. AI Query:...
InterWorks has long been a multi-disciplined data consulting firm with expertise spanning strategy, solutions and support. By the nature of our business, we’re quite used to jumping into the middle of projects to provide guidance or serve as an extra set of hands to get...
Analytics engineering has emerged as one of the most important roles in the modern data stack, and if you were following recent conversations about emerging ideas and platforms, you've probably heard analytics engineering mentioned. But what exactly is analytics engineering, and why does it matter...
First off: Congratulations! This is most likely a big step you’ve taken, and it probably looks pretty daunting from where you’re sitting. Let’s try and alleviate some of the pain that comes with getting an entirely new software spun up for the first time. Registering a...
What is MCP? To set the stage, we’ll begin with a quick overview of MCP: What it is, why it matters and how it can be used with Tableau. At its core, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a standard that gives large language models (LLMs)...
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...
Author's note: This is an AI-generated summary of a webinar InterWorks hosted on April 23, 2025. The main presenter was Jamie Pierce, Solutions Engineer & Darktrace/EMAIL Specialist. If you want to watch the whole webinar we summarized for this piece, feel free to watch it...
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...
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...
When I first started working with Sigma I was not sure if the tool would be able to create dashboards with the same high fidelity look as their competitors, such as Tableau. The grid layout's ease of use and approachability for newcomers was a plus,...
As we continue our blog series broken out from the "Biggest Pain Points for Data and Analytics Leaders" white paper, we set our sights on the third most common challenge: strategy. The Problem One of the biggest challenges for data leaders is noise. There are often so...
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