Build Live Dashboards in Curator Just by Asking
The Curator MCP server and API Relays are available now! A few weeks ago, we showed how to host AI artifacts alongside your analytics in Curator. Ask Claude for an interactive chart, upload the HTML, and it lives in your portal next to your Tableau and Power BI content. That was step one. This post […]
From Power BI and Tableau to Sigma: Building My First Workbook
Before Sigma, my world was Power BI and Tableau. I knew where things lived, what a measure was, what a calculated field was and how to get a dashboard to look right. Then I was introduced to Sigma. For the first week, I kept translating everything back into the tools I already knew. That stopped […]
Host AI Artifacts Alongside Your Analytics in Curator
AI artifact hosting in Curator is available now. If you’ve been using generative AI lately, you’ve probably noticed something: the output is really good. Whether it’s Claude, ChatGPT, or another platform, the interactive artifacts these tools generate are slick, functional, and genuinely useful. Charts that respond to your clicks. Presentations with embedded video. Dashboards you […]
The AI Did What? Five Patterns for Building Safer Agentic Systems
Recent headlines about AI agents escaping their test sandboxes, along with warnings about how fast AI capability is advancing, have added to a broader conversation about how to deploy AI agents safely. The key takeaway: Agents currently cannot reliably govern their own behavior, so enforcement has to sit outside of them via a combination of […]
Beyond the Network Boundary: Running Containerized Compute Inside Snowflake
How We Got Here: the Dual-Cloud Pattern Organisations rarely start their data journey with a clean slate. Most engineering teams built their core compute and application workloads inside primary cloud providers long before adopting platforms such as Snowflake. As Snowflake grew into their central data foundation, these existing workloads naturally needed to reach across the […]
InterWorks Is Now a Claude Select Consulting Partner with Anthropic
This week, as InterWorks celebrates 30 years in business, we are also excited to share that we’re now a Claude Select Consulting Partner with Anthropic! Over three decades, we’ve helped organizations navigate major technology shifts: IT infrastructure, business intelligence/data platforms and now AI. Each time, the lesson is the same: The tool matters, but how […]
Creating a Radius Map in Sigma
If you want to follow along with the dashboard I put together in this blog, you can find it here! Before InterWorks, my background had been in economic development and commercial real estate research, one of the few industries where geography and proximity analysis are key to decision making. This is one of the rare […]
How I Built AI Command Center in Sigma for a Small Business
Most “AI in BI” demos follow the same script. Someone types a question into a chat box, a paragraph marquees back, and everyone nods. It looks impressive for about 30 seconds, until someone asks so what or what happens next. I wanted to build something different for our Tasty Bytes demo in Sigma, an imaginary […]
How to Build Sigma Metrics on Related Columns (and Keep Join Pruning)
As part of my ongoing obsession with data modeling (and my day job) I have continued to dive further into Sigma Data Model functionality. In a recent exploration of feature parity between Sigma Data Models and Snowflake Semantic Views (a topic for another day), I ran into a familiar limitation on Sigma’s relationships feature. With […]
Nobody Reads Your Docs, But the Robots Might
Documentation is for machines now. Understanding is for people later. Albert Einstein famously said, “Never memorize something that you can look up in a book.” For years, we’ve used this as a high-minded excuse to justify our own procrastination. Why bother learning the syntax when (insert AI of choice) is right there? But the goalposts […]
