Databricks Data and AI Summit Conference Highlights
The Databricks Data and AI Summit (DAIS) has once again brought together industry leaders, innovators and data enthusiasts from around the world. There were many exciting announcements, but I’ll focus on the ones that stood out the most and will have an impact on the data community. Unity Catalog: Advancing Interoperability with Apache Iceberg Databricks […]
Transforming a Dashboard to a Decision App with Sigma
Why Sigma? For many data users, dashboards represent the end of the data lifecycle. Data is ingested, transformed, cleaned, analyzed and finally visualized to support understanding and decision-making. Dashboards may have different filters or ways to change views, but even with the most advanced visualization capabilities, this is where the story ends for most tools. […]
Sigma for Starters: How Data Apps Instantly Hooked Me
Starting my internship at InterWorks, I was introduced to Sigma – a cloud-based analytics platform that promised to revolutionize the way I approached data. However, I wasn’t prepared for what I was about to discover. From its seamless integration with various data sources to its dynamic visualization options, Sigma offered a range of features that […]
InterWorks’ Primer on the Databricks Data + AI Summit 2025
Our stretch of conferences for 2025 continues next week with the highly anticipated Databricks Data + AI Summit, held in San Francisco (and online!) from June 9-12. Databricks has been making some serious waves the past few years. Their Data Intelligence Platform, built on an open lakehouse architecture, is loved by InterWorks’ data engineers and […]
Ethical Debt in Software Development
What Is Ethical Debt? The concept of ethical debt is starting to become a rigorous conversation among enterprise architects. The simple definition is an accumulation of risks from compromising proper ethical standards during development. Organizations are familiar with technical debts; we know they create lower-quality products that are hard to scale, leading to increased overall […]
Practical AI: The Types of AI Workloads
Generative AI continues to capture our collective imagination, and if my feeds are any indication, we’re finding new words to describe them all the time — chatbots, copilots, agents and more. But what’s the reality here? What do practical AI workloads actually look like? Single-LLM Features These are straightforward, linear flows — the kind you’ll […]
The Self-Service Analytics Revolution that Never Happened
There’s a story we tell ourselves about data in organizations. It goes something like this: Information wants to be free. Give people access to data, democratize it (as consultants like us tend to say) and better decisions will flow throughout the organization. Empowered employees will spot trends their managers miss. Small teams will outmaneuver large […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup — May 2025
Welcome back, blog readers! We hope you all had an excellent May. Here in our home state of Oklahoma, the April showers that bring May flowers were a bit delayed this year. This upcoming week, for example, has central Oklahoma projected to be the wettest spot in the nation during that timeframe, beating out even […]
Introducing Snowflake Openflow: Native Data Ingestion, Reimagined
Building robust, automated ingestion pipelines often means stitching together cloud storage, monitoring tools, ETL jobs and error handling logic, all living outside your data warehouse. With Snowflake Openflow, ingestion becomes native, event-driven and easier to manage, all from within Snowflake itself. Today, we’ll cover what Openflow is, how it works and whether it’s right for […]
My First Sigma Dashboard: Unpacking a Suite of Visualization Tools
As a Tableau, Power BI and Excel user, the idea of a spreadsheet based BI tool struck me as an interesting concept. I had heard that Sigma had a powerful visualization toolset, but l lacked some of the customization options of more traditional BI tools. In return, Sigma offers a UI which is extremely friendly […]
