Welcome to the third blog post in our series highlighting Snowflake’s data ingestion capabilities, covering the latest on Snowpipe Streaming (currently in public preview) and how streaming ingestion can accelerate data engineering on Snowflake.

Data has become an essential driver for new monetization initiatives in the financial services industry. With the vast amount of data collected from customers, transactions, and market movements, among other sources, this abundance offers tremendous potential for financial institutions to extract valuable insights that can inform business decisions, improve customer service, and create new revenue streams.

If you work in a finance team within a construction business, it’s likely your main goals are to reduce risk, improve profitability, and maintain exceptional levels of compliance. To achieve success, you need direct access to accurate data from your ERP and the ability to quickly create drillable Excel reports for GL and other finance requirements.

For years data and analytics buyers have been managing a difficult set of tradeoffs. They know they need to invest in solutions to drive their businesses and data strategies forward. In fact, every third-party survey shows they plan to do so well into the future. However, customers have struggled in how to balance cost and value, and getting a clear answer isn’t always obvious or easy.