InterWorks Blog Roundup — September 2022
Well, we survived the heat of the summer! With autumn on our doorstep and the summer heat finally breaking here in the northern hemisphere, our US and EMEA teams are looking forward to dusting off our boots, jackets and pants again. For me, personally, I’ll just be glad to not sweat every time I even […]
New Considerations for Migrating from Tableau Server to Tableau Cloud
It’s been a minute since we looked at the process to migrate from your own Tableau Server onto the Tableau-hosted SaaS offering Tableau Cloud. If you’re considering the move, below is an updated list of considerations that could impact your decision process. Updated User Considerations Tableau Cloud requires multi-factor authentication, which can be achieved via two […]
Leveraging Snowflake’s ODBC Driver on Modern MacOS
If you’re a macOS user and use Tableau Desktop, you may be familiar with the continued problems with Snowflake drivers. The move from Intel-based processors to the new Apple Silicon chips has brought changes in potential drivers and issues configuring these to work correctly with your system. This guide will allow you to start using […]
How to Set Up a Published Data Source in Tableau
Congratulations! You’ve just rolled out Tableau and are beginning to onboard users. Everyone is excited and ready to get started using Tableau. People are off building dashboards and reports, but then the inevitable happens. “Wait a minute, these numbers don’t look right.” “Why does this dashboard say we had $28,000 in sales, but this one […]
SCIM and User Management for Snowflake with Azure AD
This is the second part of the three-part series on SSO and user provisioning. This one is a follow up on my previous post, which went over the core concepts of how SSO (and SCIM) work. Now we are going to delve deeper into actually setting SCIM user provisioning between Azure AD and Snowflake. Links […]
Books for Your Business: The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
While you might expect that this series would concentrate on technology books (after all, I am a tech consultant), this week we are going to leave the technology world and talk about one of the most pivotal business books of the 20th century. Just a reminder, in my last post, I discussed “The Phoenix Project.” […]
Creating Custom Toggle Buttons in Tableau
Our tech-savvy audience is used to clicking their way through to their goals, be it an Uber Eats late evening order or selecting trains on a timetable. Why not offer them the same interactive experience in Tableau where they can use buttons to toggle between views? In this tutorial, we’ll use parameter actions to achieve […]
An Overview on SSO with AD and SCIM for Snowflake
Single sign on is something we take for granted (I certainly have), mostly because it seems to just work or perhaps I’ve just been lucky? Sure getting the login and account can be a challenge and take a bit of time; but once you’ve got it, you’re generally smooth sailing across the corporate applications landscape. […]
Tableau Cloud MFA (and What This Means for Your Tabcmd Scripts)
As you surely know, there’s much to be considered when it comes to your Tableau environment. This is especially true for those planning a migration from Tableau Server to Tableau Cloud. There are migration factors that apply to most Tableau environments (as Tony eloquently outlines here), and then there are considerations that are less obvious […]
Throwback: InterWorks’ First Neuron Speaks at Everyday AI Conference
If you’re a fan of the blog, you probably remember a few months back when Dataiku’s Everyday AI conference made waves. There was also another major news story attached: InterWorks’ first Dataiku Neuron, Rachel Kurtz, spoke at both the London and New York City versions of the conference, both as an individual presenter and as […]