Why Don’t You Have a Cloud Data Warehouse?
It’s a question we will bravely ask every client if we find out they are still utilizing self-hosted hardware. It’s usually met with a pause. Not because the answer is complicated, but because most organizations have never had a reason to say their approach out loud to someone outside of their company. We’ll commonly get a mix of, “Our data still lives where it always has,” “It’s […]
Why Neo4j Graph Analytics Is a Game-Changer for Modern Manufacturing
At a recent Snowflake conference, a standout hands-on lab demonstrated a powerful architectural shift: running Neo4j graph analytics directly inside the Snowflake Data Cloud. This was a hands-on workshop teaching how to use graph analytics (a powerful way to analyze networks of connected things) applied to a manufacturing plant scenario. The workshop tackled a common […]
InterWorks’ Summer Intern Watercooler: July 2026
A little over a month into the summer, we sat down again with our 2026 interns to see how things are going. This included Colby Schroeder and Jackson Moffatt, both IT interns, along with Mark Johnson, our BI intern. Between projector upgrades, Claude certification exams and a server room alarm system, there has been no […]
With Snowflake’s Open Warehouse, It’s No Longer Data Lake vs. Data Warehouse
For years, enterprise data teams have faced a frustrating choice: a data lake (cheap, flexible, but a governance nightmare) or a data warehouse (fast, secure, but expensive and locked to a single vendor). At a recent Snowflake conference lab, “Power Analytics and AI Wherever Your Data Lives,” a hands-on workshop proved that compromise no longer […]
Snowflake Is Killing Password Logins for Service Accounts: Is Your Tableau Site Ready?
If your Tableau connections use a shared Snowflake service account, meaning a single username and password shared among multiple Tableau Creators, I have some bad news and some good news. The bad news: A change to Snowflake security is about to break those connections. The good news: Fixing them is a lot less painful than […]
Best Practices for Data Tables in Sigma
One of Sigma’s greatest strengths is its flexibility. Unlike more rigid BI tools, Sigma lets you build complex, multi-layered workbooks with deeply customized data logic- joins, groupings, pivots, nested calculations — all within the same tool. For analysts who want to work closely with their data, that freedom is genuinely exciting. But as we all […]
AI-Assisted Sprint Planning for Product Teams Using Claude Code and JIRA
This blog is featured in our AI Use Case Library of real AI solutions. The Problem Program managers and product managers are supposed to spend their time on judgment calls: What to build, what to defer, how to balance bugs against new features inside a fixed window. In practice, a significant portion of every sprint planning cycle […]
Databricks Data+AI Summit: Data Engineering Is Taking Its Ground Back
Databricks Data+AI Summit just wrapped and it was a big one. Genie One launched as a full agentic coworker, Lakeflow got a lot of attention as Databricks’ answer to a unified ingestion and transformation layer, and Agent Bricks expanded into a full agent platform with governance, memory, and document intelligence built in. A lot of […]
Enabling Snowflake Cortex AI in Governed, High-Control Environments
This blog is featured in our AI Use Case Library of real AI solutions. The Problem A lot of organizations have Snowflake. Fewer have Cortex enabled. The gap between those two things is almost never technical. Data teams at financial institutions, government agencies and healthcare organizations watch their counterparts in less regulated industries ship AI features on […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup — June 2026
I feel like I generally make a comment in one of these roundups around this time of year about, “Oh, can you believe [Insert Year] is halfway over??” But surely this year, I have actual cause for it, right? Has 2026 not just absolutely flown by? I mean, when I say that we’re halfway done with […]
