InterWorks Blog Roundup — September 2025

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 time. But before we get to our holiday goodness, let’s […]
Stopping Novel Threats with Darktrace/EMAIL

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 here! Email security has reached a critical inflection point. Traditional […]
Aurora Endpoint Defense: Outcome-Driven Endpoint Security

Author’s note: This is an AI-generated summary of a webinar InterWorks hosted on April 23, 2025. The main presenter was Ross Rosenzweig, Director of Sales Engineering – Technology Specialists Group. If you want to watch the whole webinar we summarized for this piece, feel free to watch it here! The cybersecurity landscape has long been […]
AI-Powered Airport Operations: Leveraging Snowflake and LLMs in Lost & Found items

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 post, I will demonstrate how to use Snowflake’s new […]
Perfecting Your Craft – AI, Competitive Gaming and the Joy of Being Human

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 often talk about “perfecting your craft.” It’s one of […]
AI-Driven Governance: Building an Intelligent Data Enterprise

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 between these possibilities and practical reality. The reason isn’t technical […]
AI-Driven Governance: Streamlining Data Discovery with AI Powered Data Cataloguing

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 represents a fundamental change in how we approach data […]
AI-Driven Governance: Simplifying Data Quality Leveraging AI Capability

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 annually and manual data quality processes simply don’t scale. But […]
Modernize Self-Service Analytics with dbt

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 stuck in what can only be described as the “Wild […]
Stop Waiting on Data: AI Projects Should Start Today

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 must eat their vegetables before they can leverage exciting […]