Post Sigma Workflow: Learning to Do the Job

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 into their product left me positively stunned. Many of […]
InterWorks Team Members Accepted into Snowflake APJ Partner Champion Program

We’re excited to announce that Daniel Tan, Roger Garcia, and Maaz Mazhar, three members of our Australian team, have been selected for the Snowflake APJ Partner Champion Program cohort for 2026. This recognition reflects both their technical expertise and their commitment to staying at the forefront of the Snowflake platform. Over the coming months, they’ll participate […]
Most AI Spending Is Theater

Not all of it. But a tremendous amount of AI spending isn’t going toward value. It’s going toward the appearance of pursuing value. There are echoes of the dot-com bubble here. The technology is real and incredibly impactful. Pets.com didn’t prove the internet was fake. It proved that performing digital transformation was more fundable than […]
Evolving Data Architecture: Thoughts from the Field

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 – often in stark contrast to vendor-led messaging and LinkedIn […]
Sigma Design Essentials: Mastering the Grid

Shoot your shot, as they say. That means you, as you’re building something in Sigma right now. If the dashboard, app or report you’re working on is going to be used or seen by others, take a little bit of time to make sure it’s going to land with them as you intend it to. […]
Transitioning from Tableau to Power BI

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 lots of BI skills are definitely transferable, there are […]
Your Experts Are Bottlenecks. They Don’t Have to Be.

They know everything about their corner of the business. They built the systems everyone else depends on. When something breaks, they can diagnose it in 30 seconds. They are, without question, indispensable. Every organization has someone like this. Unfortunately, they also speak a different language than the rest of the team. When a message from […]
Everyone’s a Developer Now. Nobody’s Ready.

Something happened in the last year or so that we didn’t see coming — at least not this fast. People across our business started building things. Not mockups. Not wireframes. Not, “Hey, could someone on the dev team make this for me?” requests. Actual, working applications. Someone on our team built an entire web-based tool […]
Building Your First dlt Pipeline into Snowflake

In the field of data engineering, it sometimes feels like new tools are being introduced merely for the sake of novelty, only to have the exact same benefits and pitfalls as the previous new, shiny tool. When I first heard about “dlt” (data load tool), I will admit that I was a bit skeptical. Why […]
How To Run AI Queries From Snowflake in My Sigma Data App?

As data teams strive to deliver faster, smarter insights, Sigma is stepping up by embedding AI directly into its dashboard experience. With features like Formula Assistant, Explain This Chart, Ask Sigma, and AI Queries, users can now interact with data in more intuitive and intelligent ways. This blog explores some of the functions Sigma provides […]