Semantic Layer in Sigma: A Beginner’s Guide to Data Models
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 non-reusable and leading to repeated work and inconsistent reporting. Data […]
You Are Not The Average Customer
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 metrics. The CRM stages don’t fit the way we think […]
InterWorks Receives Snowflake Rising Star Partner of the Year Award for APAC
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, combined with rapid customer onboarding, is helping businesses modernise their […]
Custom Colors and Bump Charts: My First Sigma Dashboard
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 […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup — July 2025
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 (and sweaty) as being outside for the summer is during […]
Improving Sigma Line Chart Over Time
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 day, we do 100 sit ups. Of course, I […]
The Sigma Action Guide
What are Sigma Actions? Imagine enabling users to instantly filter a dashboard to just their regional sales, then automatically opening a detailed breakdown page with a single click. Or picture giving analysts the ability to launch a stored procedure that forecasts next quarter’s revenue, or surface AI-driven insights directly inside your analytics platform, without ever […]
Getting Started with Plugins in Sigma
As data teams seek more flexibility and customization in their business intelligence workflows, plugins in Sigma have emerged as a powerful way to extend the platform’s capabilities. Whether you’re embedding interactive visualizations or building tailored UI components, Sigma plugins offer promising opportunities to adapt dashboards to specific user and business needs. However, like any emerging […]
Multilingual Dashboards Made Easy: A Look into Sigma’s Localization Features
In today’s global business environment, delivering data insights in the right language is more than a convenience, it’s a necessity. Sigma’s localization and language translation features are designed to empower users across different regions to access dashboards and analytics in their native language, promoting better understanding and broader adoption. While tools like Tableau and Power […]
Semantic Layers: The Universal Data Translator
Bottom Line Up Front: Semantic layers are transforming how organizations manage and deliver data analytics by providing a unified, context-rich middleware that translates raw data into consistent, accessible insights across all business applications — from traditional BI tools to AI-powered agents. The data analytics landscape is experiencing a fundamental shift. Recent industry surveys reveal that […]
