How Much Does Your AI-Powered Dashboard Cost?
Continuing our series on integrating AI features into the Sigma development environment, today we’re focusing on a key consideration: the cost of using AI-powered tools within your dashboards. Sigma currently supports four AI-driven features: Formula Assistant, Explain This Chart, Ask Sigma and AI Queries. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at the costs specifically […]
Moving Beyond BI: What Sigma Workflow 2026 Says About What’s Next
Same Tool, Different Game Nine months ago, I wrote a tool comparison comparing Sigma, Tableau and Power BI head-to-head, with the blog framed around the evolution of BI and where each tool wins. After attending Sigma Workflow conference this week in San Francisco, the clearest thing to emerge is that a BI tool comparison itself […]
Securing Amazon Bedrock: What Enterprises Need to Get Right
Amazon’s Bedrock service has become a popular choice for organizations looking to build AI into their existing cloud infrastructure. It provides fully managed model hosting, native integrations with familiar AWS services and offers ready-made components for agents, retrieval and content filtering. This lets teams extend existing security patterns and governance controls to AI workloads with […]
Building AI Agents in AWS: A Hands-On Amazon Bedrock Walkthrough
Deploying AI systems into an enterprise environment means navigating a wide range of decisions that can compound very quickly. What data is being processed, and can it leave your environment? Where does your data currently live, and what platforms is your team operating today? And what is the use case for the AI system — […]
Color-Coded and Unmappable: How Claude Decoded a Spreadsheet Nobody Else Could
Every once in a while, we run into a data problem that stops us in our tracks. The data is all right there on the screen, but it has been organized in a way that only one person fully understands, and that person is not available to explain it. We recently hit one of those […]
The Newsroom Model: Using Specialized AI Agents to Build a Diverse Team
Ask one journalist to research a story, write it, take photos, fact-check and copy-edit and you’ll get work that’s “fine.” Ask a newsroom to do it and you’ll get something worth reading. The same logic often applies to AI. Most of us start in lone-ranger mode. We hand one AI a complex task: Research this […]
Why We’re Excited About Workflow 2026: Sigma’s User Conference
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 warehouse data. And yes, that includes some really cool data […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup — February 2026
Well, looks like 2026 is shaping up to be one of those years. Never fear! Though life may be hectic, the InterWorks blog will continue on as it has for the past decade and a half. Surely, you’ll draw some soul-soothing comfort in your favorite corporate blog keeps on churning out content. I kid, of course. […]
Why Should I Terraform My Data Infrastructure?
This is the first in a sequence of short-form blog posts I will be doing talking about Terraform and its specific benefits (or drawbacks) to data teams. What Are You, and What’s Your Data Challenge? You’re the leader of a small data team in a medium company and your job is to build and maintain […]
Self-Service Analytics Was the Beginning. Are You Ready for What’s Next?
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 fanfare that surrounded TCC 2013 in Washington, D.C. following Tableau’s […]
