Snowflake External Access: Send Alerts to Slack
Recently, Snowflake released external access integrations into general availability. This allows Snowflake admins to create secure tunnels for Snowflake to communicate with the outside world, and can therefore communicate with external APIs to complete all manner of tasks. For example, external access could be used for any of the following, among many others: Send alerts […]
Snowflake External Access: Trigger Matillion ETL Jobs
Recently, Snowflake released external access integrations into general availability. This allows Snowflake admins to create secure tunnels for Snowflake to communicate with the outside world, and can therefore communicate with external APIs to complete all manner of tasks. For example, external access could be used for any of the following, among many others: Send alerts […]
Surveys Reveal the 5 Biggest Pain Points for Data & Analytics Leaders
InterWorks has been a global, full-stack consulting firm for many years now. A big part of our job as consultants is to first listen to our clients needs, talk through potential solutions and strategies, and then help them those with any ongoing support they might need. We’ve always had a general feel for what the […]
The Tableau Cloud Migration Checklist
If you’ve landed here, chances are you’re a BI director, Tableau Server administrator, site administrator or developer who’s interested in or planning to migrate from Tableau Server to Tableau Cloud. You’re keen to take advantage of Tableau Cloud’s latest features like Tableau Pulse and reduce administrative overhead and maintenance of your Tableau environment. However, you’re […]
Snowflake External Access: Trigger Matillion DPC Pipelines
Recently, Snowflake released external access integrations into general availability. This allows Snowflake admins to create secure tunnels for Snowflake to communicate with the outside world and can therefore communicate with external APIs to complete all manner of tasks. For example, external access could be used for any of the following, among many others: Send alerts […]
Highlights From the Spring 2024 dbt Cloud Launch Showcase
dbt presented their “dbt Cloud Launch Showcase” last week. In it, the team rolled out a buffet of new features and upgrades designed to make data transformation smoother than ever. Whether you’re knee-deep in SQL or just trying to keep your data ducks in a row, these updates promise to make your life a whole […]
Thoughts on Tableau Conference 2024
I’ve attended every Tableau Conference since the first one in 2008, held at the Edgewood Hotel in Seattle. That conference included 150 people, 50 of whom were Tableau employees. At its peak, the Tableau Conference attracted over 20,000 people. It was quite an event. I believe this apex was reached around 2015. The 2016 event […]
Matillion DPC: How to Git Going
In this blog, I will guide you through various methods to navigate the Matillion Data Productivity Cloud (DPC) Git functionality. The purpose of any Git process is to manage version control in technical/software projects. It allows for work to be contributed to by all involved, while preserving a master version to be the forefront of […]
User-Focused Data Analytics Design: A Three-Phase Approach
In today’s visual analytics landscape, it’s more important than ever that we are building tools (dashboards, apps, websites) that prioritize effective insights. Too often, we see clients that have all sorts of data collected, loads of dashboards, excel exports, printed reports and email trails that are all trying to solve a simple set of problems. […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup — April 2024
If you’re reading this, you (probably) survived Tableau Conference 2024. Congratulations! We had a great time at TC24, and we were incredibly happy to get to share the showroom floor with you all. Thanks to everyone who came up and chatted with us (especially if you came up and talked about how much you love […]
