IT Sales Simplified: Intern to Employee with Seth Maston
In this episode, IT Sales Simplified host Genna Callahan sits down with InterWorks Client Manager Seth Maston to chat about transitioning from an IT intern to a fully fledged IT salesperson at a global tech company.
Maturing Analytics: Why Dashboards Fail
In Part 1, we looked at our Job to be Done and why it wasn’t building Dashboards. The key takeaway is to focus on user value and solve their pain points. Now, let’s turn to why what building dashboards doesn’t deliver the user value we expect. Dashboards Fail by not Matching Users’ Needs The primary […]
Maturing Analytics: The Job To Be Done
The data and analytics industry is changing. Buried beneath the marketing hype and buzzwords, there’s something real happening, and the data industry is going through a giant shift. I’ve heard it described as both “overhyped and underestimated.” Overhyped in that a sprinkling of AI is not going to perform the magic many vendors hope you’ll […]
Python and Snowflake FAQ
Python is a first class language in the Snowflake eco system, and there are multiple ways to use Python with Snowflake: Snowflake Connector for Python: Listed in Snowflake drivers, this is a standard connector to Snowflake written using Python. It supports developing applications using the Python Database API v2 specification (PEP-249) which include familiar objects […]
Boost Your Tableau Workbooks With Large and Complex Data Sources
Speed is of the essence in lots of things, and Tableau dashboards are no different. Developers and end users alike want dashboards loaded in a blink of an eye. Luckily, there are many resources online that will help you optimise your dashboards, such as optimising calculations, taking extracts and limiting the data and worksheets to […]
IT Sales Simplified: Tech Talk with Tim Adams
In this episode, IT Sales Simplified host Genna Callahan sits down with IT Support Manager Tim Adams to talk about real world IT experience and Tim’s path to IT.
The Current State of Semantic Layers
In my last blog post, where I introduced the concept of a universal semantic layer, we outlined the benefits that organizations with multiple business domains can recognize. These organizations use data and data consumption tools, and can adopt a universal semantic layer to gain a control tower view of their data interactions as well as […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup — May 2024
I want you to know, my first draft of this blog post was almost entirely made up of me slipping “May” into casual sentences or trying to come up with puns surrounding the month’s name. I’ve spared you from reading all that, don’t worry. It was a little… much. Let’s keep things more casual as […]
Snowflake Security and Cost Management: Health Checks
As many are already aware, there has recently been a lot of noise about security on the Snowflake platform. On June 2nd, 2024, Snowflake issued this statement regarding a targeted threat campaign against some Snowflake customer accounts. This appeared to be a targeted campaign directed at users with single-factor authentication, where threat actors leveraged credentials […]
How to Improve Security with Snowflake’s Trust Center
As many are already aware, recently there has been a lot of noise about security on the Snowflake platform. On June 2, 2024 Snowflake issued this statement regarding a targeted threat campaign against some Snowflake customer accounts. This appeared to be a targeted campaign directed at users with single-factor authentication, where threat actors leveraged credentials previously purchased […]
