Analytics

Snowflake Workloads Explained: Snowlake for Data Mesh

Snowflake’s cross-cloud platform enables domain teams to seamlessly collaborate and share data products across clouds and regions without copying or ETL. Domain teams can work with tools and languages of their choice, and scale resources independently with Snowflake’s elastic performance engine. With Snowflake, organizations can strike the right balance between domain ownership and governance standards.

Data Privacy is for Life, Not Just One Day a Year

This Saturday, January 28th sees Data Privacy Day come round again, an international effort to empower individuals and encourage businesses to respect privacy, safeguard personal data and enable trust. As always this should act as a reminder that every individual within an organization requires a basic understanding of their internal privacy rules and regulations.

Manufacturing Data Ingestion into Snowflake

Accessing data from the manufacturing shop floor is one of the key topics of interest with the majority of cloud platform vendors due to the pace of Industry 4.0 adoption. Industry 4.0, also known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, refers to the emerging trend of technological transformation in manufacturing and related industries.

11 Predictions Data Experts Have for the Year Ahead

It’s 2023 and with the new year comes an opportunity to drive innovation, growth, and digital transformation with data in the face of ongoing economic turbulence. If Snowflake’s report, How to Win in Today’s Data Economy is any indication, data-driven organizations are poised to emerge as the winners of the year with 77% Data Economy Leaders, which is only 6% of those surveyed, experiencing annual revenue growth versus 36% of Data Economy Laggards, the lowest-performing survey group.

Fast-Growing Startups Thrive On Snowflake

Startup companies who build their network infrastructure around Snowflake find they not only can be better at using data to deliver a superior customer experience, but they can easily scale their business when they start to achieve explosive growth. In this episode of “Data Cloud Now,” Gautam Srinivasan, Snowflake India Correspondent chats Ben Gotfredson, Head of Startup Programs at Snowflake, talks about all the ways Snowflake energizes startup companies, as well as the huge business opportunity for those who want to build an app directly on Snowflake.

Why Column-Aware Metadata Is Key to Automating Data Transformations

Data, data, data. It does seem we are not only surrounded by talk about data, but by the actual data itself. We are collecting data from every nook and cranny of the universe (literally!). IoT devices in every industry; geolocation information on our phones, watches, cars, and every other mobile device; every website or app we access—all are collecting data. In order to derive value from this avalanche of data, we have to get more agile when it comes to preparing the data for consumption.