Over the past 12 months, I’ve sat in more exec meetings, virtual strategy sessions and innovation labs than I can count. The message is crystal clear: AI is no longer a futuristic ambition — it’s a strategic imperative. Yet many organizations across Mainland Europe are...| InterWorks
Happy Analytics and BI Platform Magic Quadrant release to all who celebrate. Usually when these reports drop, I feel like I’m reading last year’s news today. But this time, Gartner made genuinely astute observations about where this market is headed, even if their individual vendor...| InterWorks
In a previous blog post following this series about AI, I talked about Ask Sigma, a new AI powered tool that aims to turning dashboards into smart assistants that behave like real data analysts. However, these features come with real costs. Beyond just dollars, companies... The post How Do You Know How Much Ask Sigma Costs? appeared first on InterWorks.| InterWorks
At the start of this year, I changed roles at InterWorks from technical enablement to sales. On the surface, the move seemed like it would be a big change, going from teaching how to build meaningful data visualizations and dashboarding best practices into a pure... The post Client Relationships: Our Differentiator appeared first on InterWorks.| InterWorks
Sigma provides multiple AI-driven capabilities to help users gain insights more quickly. Particularly, Ask Sigma is a natural language query (NLQ) tool that enables users to explore their data by asking questions and receiving AI-generated insights. It supports both factual queries and visual outputs like... The post Dialogue with Your Data Using Ask Sigma appeared first on InterWorks.| InterWorks
Sigma provides multiple AI-driven capabilities to help users gain insights more quickly. Its strategy centers on empowering every team to work with data more effectively by integrating artificial intelligence directly into its platform. By enabling natural language queries, AI-assisted formula creation, and direct access to... The post How to Set Up AI in Your Sigma Environment appeared first on InterWorks.| InterWorks
As I work with AI agents like Claude Code on new problems, I’ve noticed a fascinating pattern: Ask me to code a web page and the AI can make it appear like magic. Ask me to use the same AI to clean up a messy... The post Why Your AI Agent Can Write Code but Fumbles Data appeared first on InterWorks.| InterWorks
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...| InterWorks
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... The post Stopping Novel Threats with Darktrace/EMAIL appeared first on InterWorks.| InterWorks
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... The post Aurora Endpoint Defense: Outcome-Driven Endpoint Security appeared first on InterWorks.| InterWorks
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... The post AI-Powered Airport Operations: Leveraging Snowflake and LLMs in Lost & Found items appeared first on InterWorks.| InterWorks
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,... The post Perfecting Your Craft – AI, Competitive Gaming and the Joy of Being Human appeared first on InterWorks.| InterWorks
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...| InterWorks
WHITEPAPER The 5 Biggest Pain Points for Data & Analytics Leaders DOWNLOAD NOW Gathering intel on data challenges WHO We surveyed over 300 respondents across existing clients, conference attendees, webinar viewers and more. These data leaders came from a variety of locations, industry verticals, organization...| InterWorks
As we continue our blog series broken out from the “Biggest Pain Points for Data and Analytics Leaders” white paper, we set our sights on the third most common challenge: strategy. The Problem One of the biggest challenges for data leaders is noise. There are...| InterWorks
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...| InterWorks
In a world of daily technological advances, many business analysts and executives continue to lean on the comfort of their crosstabs as a preferred mode of consuming their corporation’s data. A crosstab, more commonly known as a data table, displays a relationship between two or...| InterWorks
Change management is hard. With AI changing our businesses, it’s also crucial. I’ve been thinking about change management lately through the lens of “Switch” by Chip and Dan Heath. If you haven’t read it, the book uses a powerful metaphor: Our rational mind is the...| InterWorks
In the final part of our series breaking down common data and analytics pain points, we explore tool selection and its impact on your data ecosystem and end users. You can read about other common challenges in our full white paper, but today we’ll be...| InterWorks
In the fourth part of our series on data and analytics pain points, I talk about user adoption and ROI is a pain along with some solutions that can make this biggest pain easier to manage. For more insights on other common challenges, I encourage...| InterWorks
Tableau Cloud Migration Services Your organization is unique. Your approach to a successful Tableau Cloud migration should be, too. Our dedicated Platform Architects can help you chart the right course, right-size your migration plan and provide you with expert support throughout the migration process. 3...| InterWorks
InterWorks is a people-focused tech consultancy delivering premier service and expertise in collaboration with strategic partners. Our clients trust us to guide them toward the best solutions to maximize their data. We empower people at every step of the analytics experience, from management and storage to communicating insights with visualization.| InterWorks
Tableau Prep has improved considerably since it was launched. It offers a lot of tools to pre-process and transform your data. But sometimes, you need to apply a function that has no equivalent in Prep, want to extract some data using an API interface or...| InterWorks
When delivering dashboards for our clients, it’s easy to get caught up in the layout, containers and design while ensuring the experience is up to corporate standards and is “production” ready. For me, it’s oftentimes the little things that matter most in life. And with...| InterWorks
For the second blog in this series, which was originally sourced from my white paper on common challenges faced by data and analytics leaders, we dive into the challenge of people resourcing. While the figures here are based on the Australian market, the core challenges...| InterWorks
When tasked with the ambiguous project to “create a dashboard,” I spun my wheels for a while trying to think of the perfect idea for my first Tableau Public dashboard. If you know me, you know I am a “recovering” perfectionist, and the worst thing you can do to someone like me is give me a completely open-ended project. If the world was my oyster, then I had a world of data to filter through — and that is just way too much to “perfect.”| InterWorks
In a recent white paper by Robert Curtis, there was discussion of what the biggest pain points were for data and analytic leaders. The information was based on a multi-industry survey conducted across hundreds of clients, which provided insight on the main problems. From there, InterWorks took the time to formulate potential solutions rooted in decades of expertise to figure out how we can best help you navigate these complications. The first (and most common) pain point we’ll cover is data...| InterWorks
Many Sigma users start by creating a new workbook and pulling in warehouse tables as their data source. This often means doing extra prep work, joining tables, renaming columns or building aggregations, all within each workbook. That logic stays locked in the workbook, making it...| InterWorks
Software is designed for the average customer, but the truth is that no customer is the actual average. That’s why we’re always dealing with trade-offs. Our tool process flow doesn’t quite match the reality of our business. The analytics dashboard doesn’t quite capture the right...| InterWorks
At the Snowflake Partner Network conference, InterWorks was honored to be named the 2025 Rising Star Partner of the Year for the APAC region: Congratulations to InterWorks, winner of the Snowflake Australia Rising Star Partner of the Year 2025 award. Their commitment to our partnership,...| InterWorks
Jumping into the world of interactive data apps can be intimidating, and understanding how to set up input tables correctly is vital to creating a functional app. Luckily, InterWorks is here to help. We’ve created a concise guide to clarify how and when to use different types of input tables.| InterWorks
As we explore new ways to leverage Sigma across the company, I had the opportunity to build a dashboard that would be featured in our Viz Gallery. This space showcases impactful visualizations created by our team, and contributing to it felt like both an honor and a challenge. It was a chance to apply what I’ve learned, test my design instincts and tell a story through data using a tool we’re championing throughout the organization.| InterWorks
July, around the InterWorks home state of Oklahoma, is a special time. The kids are out of school, the cicadas start singing, the weather is swelteringly hot, and the barbecues and cookouts are aplenty. It’s the peak of summer, no doubt about it. As romantic...| InterWorks
Although summer is almost over, it is never too late to start to work on your beach body. My friends challenged me to do a sit-up every day for 100 days while increasing the number of sit-ups each day by one, so on the last...| InterWorks
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Selecting business intelligence software and planning a rollout is a significant undertaking. The real work should begin well before you start selecting software. You must comprehensively assess your entire organization’s information needs, wants and data workflows. Building a Strategic Vision Roadmap We call these planning...| InterWorks
SUPPORT KeepWatch by InterWorks is a customizable managed service for all your data and analytics infrastructure needs. Whether you need support for one platform or many, our technical experts have you covered. We created KeepWatch for clients who need data and analytics infrastructure support paired...| InterWorks
An issue and an opportunity for nearly every existing business intelligence system is keeping it running well and minimizing costs. Cloud-based software makes it easy to spin up a data warehouse or a data lake, use data transformation tools, create data science studies and publish...| InterWorks
Business intelligence software which includes databases, data transformation tools and software for searching and presenting interactive reports, as dashboards have been around for 25 years. In the last ten years, these tools have become easier to use and more able to deal with very large...| InterWorks
Often, discussions about data governance begin and end with security. Preventing unauthorized access or the loss of proprietary data is crucial. Data governance also ensures that your data systems comply with regulatory requirements and protect privacy. You are undoubtedly aware of the horror stories regarding...| InterWorks
Executives understand the value of high-quality, timely information. When asked why they invested in business intelligence software, they can cite examples that explain how their investments paid off. Most feel the paybacks achieved justify their investments, but they also believe that the adoption of the...| InterWorks
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