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November 2023

Snowflake and the Pursuit Of Precision Medicine

The growing field of precision medicine holds incredible promise for delivering better patient care and medical innovation, but there are barriers to greater implementation. As an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention, precision medicine takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person. Its implementation has primarily been hastened by reducing sequencing costs.

Reinventing ERP Insights With Maxa and Snowflake Native Apps

ERP systems run the world’s businesses. These stalwart systems are great at managing records and processes for finance, operations, supply chain management and more. But their insights need an upgrade. That’s the case put forward by Maxa, an enterprise-grade startup that has made it their mission to reinvent the way companies access and use ERP data for transformational insights.

Predictions for the Dawning AI Age: What to Expect in 2024 and Beyond

2024 is going to be an important transition year for artificial intelligence. 2023 was the public debut of generative AI and large language models (LLMs), a year of amazement, excitement, occasional panic and, yes, more than a little bit of hype. The year ahead is when businesses begin to make the promise of advanced artificial intelligence real, and we’ll begin seeing the effects on how we work and live.

CityFibre Integrates and Scales Its Data Estate to Boost Operational Efficiency and Optimize Its Future Network With Snowflake

CityFibre is one of the U.K’.s biggest fibre networks, connecting millions to high-speed broadband. Piyush Shandilya, Data Architect at CityFibre explains how the company uses Snowflake to process and analyze large, integrated data sets at speed, powering future growth and delivering next-gen connectivity. CityFibre is the U.K.’s third largest gigabit network and is predicted to connect 8 million people by 2025.

Next-Level Apps with Snowpark Container Services and Snowflake Native Apps

The enterprise app market has been growing faster than ever before, due to the recent spike in demand for AI / ML workloads. These new types of apps operate over large sets of data, have increasingly higher compute demands, require strict data privacy protections, provide very sophisticated web experiences, and need to be secure at all stages of their life cycles. While such apps are being created at a very fast pace, there are two main challenges.

Using Propel To Accelerate The Process Of Creating Analytics For Web And Mobile Applications

In this episode of “Powered by Snowflake,” host Daniel Myers chats with Nico Acosta, CEO and Co-founder of Propel, about his company’s API platform that’s targeted at developers and engineering teams who build customer-facing analytics into web and mobile applications. This Connected Application makes it easy to use Snowflake data to drive SaaS dashboards, product usage analytics visualizations, intelligent application workflows, and more.

Snowflake Snowday 2023 Highlights

"The most important aspect of what we do is we take complex technologies, complex problems, and make them easy....We have a number of interesting announcements about how the Data Cloud keeps getting more powerful and more exciting for everyone." With those words, Christian Kleinerman, Senior VP of Product, kicks off this video, which highlights some of the key news that came out of Snowday, including the introduction of Snowflake Horizon, Snowflake Cortex, and Snowflake Notebooks.

Generative AI Is The Key To Transforming The Telecom Industry

The telecom industry is undergoing a monumental transformation. The rise of new technologies such as 5G, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT) is putting pressure on telecom operators to find new ways to improve the performance of their networks, reduce costs and provide better customer service. Cost pressures especially are incentivizing telecoms to find new ways to implement automation and more efficient processes to help optimize operations and employee productivity.

Snowflake Customers Rank Cost-Effectiveness and Ease-of-Use as Top Benefits in New KLAS Research Report

See why Snowflake’s healthcare customers rate the Data Cloud high in performance and cost savings. Each year, KLAS Research interviews thousands of healthcare professionals about the IT solutions and services their organizations use. Since 1996, the analyst firm has been leading the healthcare IT (HIT) industry in providing accurate, honest and impartial insights about vendor solutions and customer satisfaction metrics.

How Modern Automotive Companies Can Generate Value With Connected Mobility

From connected cars and fleets of commercial vehicles to connected smart home devices, it’s estimated there are more than 14 billion products equipped with sensors, processors, software and connectivity worldwide—a number that is projected to almost double by 2030.

Snowflake Announces Cyber Essentials Plus Certification

Ensuring a seamless data experience that complies with regulatory frameworks, particularly in the public sector, is crucial. Research from the U.K. government found as many as 32% of businesses and 24% of charities suffered online breaches or cyberattacks in the last 12 months. In this increasingly interconnected world, national stability depends on thoughtful data governance and safeguarding.

5 Reasons Why Retail Media Is the Smart Approach for Online Retailers

To say the global retail market is challenging today would be a gross understatement. A rising cost of living, demanding consumer expectations, supply chain disruption and unforeseen public health crises like COVID-19 all contribute to the erosion of retailers’ bottom lines. However, retail media has in recent years emerged as an increasingly promising guard against these economic uncertainties and can even serve as a profitable revenue stream.

Snowflake And The Industry Solution Play Program.

The Snowflake Industry Solution Play Program is here and we want you to know all about it. Snowflake has developed a sales, marketing and technical program that allows our customers to harness the expertise of our Partner ecosystem and the Snowflake Data Cloud to transform how we do business today and into the future.

Announcing New Innovations for Data Warehouse, Data Lake, and Data Lakehouse in the Data Cloud

Over the years, the technology landscape for data management has given rise to various architecture patterns, each thoughtfully designed to cater to specific use cases and requirements. These patterns include both centralized storage patterns like data warehouse, data lake and data lakehouse, and distributed patterns such as data mesh. Each of these architectures has its own unique strengths and tradeoffs.

Announcing New Innovations for Snowflake Horizon

Snowflake’s single, cross-cloud governance model has always been a powerful differentiator, enabling customers to manage their increasingly complex data ecosystems with simplicity and ease. As a result, Snowflake is enhancing its governance capabilities that thousands of customers already rely on through Snowflake Horizon. Snowflake Horizon is Snowflake’s built-in governance solution with a unified set of compliance, security, privacy, interoperability, and access capabilities.

Better Manage and Optimize Your Snowflake Spend In One Place With the New Cost Management Interface

In the ever-evolving world of data management, Snowflake is at the forefront of empowering our customers to make informed decisions about data while ensuring cost efficiency and control. Admins know that managing and optimizing platform costs can be a complex and time-consuming task. To help them more intuitively understand, control and optimize spend from one centralized place, Snowflake is introducing the new Cost Management Interface (private preview).

Build and deploy ML with ease Using Snowpark ML, Snowflake Notebooks, and Snowflake Feature Store

Snowflake has invested heavily in extending the Data Cloud to AI/ML workloads, starting in 2021 with the introduction of Snowpark, the set of libraries and runtimes in Snowflake that securely deploy and process Python and other popular programming languages.