Sigma Rapid Start and Embedded Analytics Deployment for a Global Branded Merchandise Agency

What We Did

InterWorks delivered a Sigma Rapid Start, combining best-practice education, hands-on guidance and technical advisory across a compressed four-week engagement to get the client's team migrated, enabled and ready to scale.

• Delivered twelve structured educational sessions over four weeks covering Sigma's core mental model, data modeling best practices, role-level and row-level security, governance, semantic modeling and analytics engineering fundamentals.
• Provided dedicated office hours and a shared communication channel throughout the engagement, giving the client's team a real-time escalation path for questions as they built.
• Guided the design and implementation of a multi-tenant embedded analytics architecture to support the client's customer-facing portal, including security patterns for isolating data by client and controlling access at multiple levels.
• Built a working demonstration of Sigma's embedded SDK to give the development team a referenceable starting point for ongoing portal development.
• Introduced a rationalization framework for determining when to use Sigma versus Snowflake Cortex for AI-enabled use cases, positioning the client to make well-reasoned decisions as their analytics practice matures.
• Enabled all ten developers through the same structured session and office hours model, ensuring the distributed team could operate with the same foundation as the onshore team.
• Applied a pragmatic, first-principles advisory approach throughout, identifying patterns that could create future technical debt and steering the team toward decisions optimized for long-term performance and cost.