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December 2021

New Year, New UI: Get Started in Snowsight

Out with the old; in with the new! If you haven’t already checked out the new Snowflake® interface (aka Snowsight®), make it your New Year’s resolution. Set yourself up for success in 2022 by spending a few minutes getting to know the new features and experiences that are in public preview—available when you click the Snowsight button at the top of your console’s menu bar.

Data Goes Around The World In 80 Seconds With Snowflake

See how a database named Phileas Fogg can journey around the world in 80 seconds on Snowflake in this animated short. With Snowflake, PHILEAS_FOGG can failover in the event of disruption to enable continuous business operations and be joined with local data sets for global data collaboration across clouds.

New Snowflake Features Released In October And November 2021

Coming off of our Snowday event, we’ve unveiled a number of new product capabilities that expand what is possible in the Data Cloud. From helping businesses operate globally with improved replication efficiency, empowering developers with new functionality in Snowpark, and improving the security and governance of data through native object tagging, there is no shortage of exciting advancements coming to Snowflake.

Simplifying Use of External APIs with Request/Response Translators

Snowpark has generated significant excitement and interest since it was announced. Snowpark is a developer framework that enables data engineers, data scientists, and data developers to code in their language of choice, and execute pipelines, machine learning (ML) workflows, and data applications faster and more securely. While many parts of Snowpark are in preview stages, External Functions entered General Availability earlier this year.

Analysts Can Now Use SQL to Build and Deploy ML Models with Snowflake and Amazon SageMaker Autopilot

Machine learning (ML) models have become key drivers in helping organizations reveal patterns and make predictions that drive value across the business. While extremely valuable, building and deploying these models remains in the hands of only a small subset of expert data scientists and engineers with deep programming and ML framework expertise.

How Snowflake Support Is Continuously Improving the Customer Experience

At Snowflake, putting the customer first is an essential company value. But “customer-centric” is more than just a buzzword: We use a data-driven, outside-in lens on everything we do, at all levels of the company. In particular, here’s how Snowflake Support is listening to you—our customers—and continuously improving the Snowflake customer experience at every touchpoint.

5 Best Practices for Building a Successful Startup

There's never been a better time to be an entrepreneur looking for investment funding. Global venture capital activity grew mightily in the first half of 2021, and the trend appears to be continuing as we head into 2022. However, that doesn't mean building a new company is any easier. The same inherent resource and growth challenges exist, and venture capitalists still want to see value creation and strong indicators for future success before they invest.