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How Infutor Uses the Placekey External Function to Extend the Power of Snowflake

The Snowflake Data Cloud provides the unique ability for anyone to join their own data sets with thousands of live third-party data sets near-instantly, securely, and without moving data. Businesses operating in the Data Cloud gain a huge advantage over their competitors who are stuck in data silos and struggling with stale data sets downloaded from their legacy data providers weeks, months, or years ago.

Managing Multiple Accounts with Snowflake Organizations Is Now in Public Preview

We are excited to announce that the new Snowflake Organizations feature is now available in public preview. Organizations enable customers to easily manage their data, storage, and compute across multiple Snowflake accounts and even across regions and clouds. Through a new ORGADMIN role, customers can now: We’re excited to hear how you use these new more powerful self-service capabilities to manage your Snowflake Data Cloud.

5 Best Practices for Integrating Data Science Into Your Marketing Analytics

Personalization enables marketers to send hypertargeted content and offers that are more likely to drive purchases and cultivate brand loyalty. Research by Accenture from 2018 shows that 91% of consumers are more likely to shop with companies that provide relevant offers and recommendations. Though personalization helps marketers optimize ad spend and drive improvements in customer lifetime value, basket size, and retention, it’s still untenable at scale in many organizations.

Snowflake and Saturn Cloud Partner to Bring 100x Faster Data Science to Millions of Python Users

Snowflake and Saturn Cloud are thrilled to announce our partnership to provide the fastest data science and machine learning (ML) platform. Snowflake’s Data Cloud comprises a global network where thousands of organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. Saturn Cloud’s platform provides lightning-fast data science. Combined, our solutions enable customers to maximize their ML and data science initiatives.

10 Predictions about Data Cloud Analytics in 2021

2021 is the year of the Data Cloud. Powered by the Snowflake platform, the Data Cloud will be the place where organizations across industries can converge to mobilize their data. Snowflake estimates that there are still hundreds of millions of data sets isolated in cloud data storage and on-premises data centers globally. The Data Cloud eliminates these silos, allowing you to seamlessly unify, analyze, and share your data to reach deeper insights and even open new revenue streams.

Top 7 Trends in Marketing Analytics for 2021

Powered by advances in machine learning, marketing analytics delivers more bottom-line impact with each passing year. It enables organizations to improve the targeting of ads and other content, optimize their ad spend through advanced marketing attribution, increase customer lifetime value, reduce churn, and more. While technology is making granular targeting and measurement possible, marketers are also doubling down on measures to ensure consumer privacy and data governance in their initiatives.

Investment in Knoema Puts Global Public Data Sets At Snowflake Users' Fingertips

The world is rich with publicly available data sets that can provide immense value to businesses, in areas as diverse as economics, health, agriculture and transportation. But the data is highly fragmented, stored in different formats and databases around the world, making it very hard for businesses to consume and monetize.

Unlocking Value by Going All-in On The Data Cloud

Snowflake met with Mark Stange-Tregear, Vice President of Analytics for Rakuten Rewards, and Andrew Parry, Vice President of IT Application Development for Office Depot, at Data Cloud Summit 2020. The Data Cloud is unlocking new ways of delivering products and services to customers, managing supply chains, and collaborating globally. Rakuten Rewards and Office Depot are going “all- in” on the Snowflake Data Cloud to transform their businesses. Q. How does data affect your business?

405% 3-year ROI Procuring Snowflake Through AWS Marketplace: New Forrester TEI Study

Snowflake is delighted to share the findings of a new Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study that examines the potential return on investment for organizations that procure Snowflake through Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace and then use Snowflake as a core part of your application’s architecture. We commissioned the study in partnership with AWS.

Managing Snowflake's Compute Resources

This is the 3rd blog in our series on Snowflake Resource Optimization. In parts 1 and 2 of this blog series, we showed you how Snowflake’s unique architecture allows for a virtually unlimited number of compute resources to be accessed near-instantaneously. We also provided best practices for administering these compute resources to optimize performance and reduce credit consumption.