Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of Snowflake Cortex Analyst. Cortex Analyst, built using Meta’s Llama and Mistral models, is a fully managed service that provides a conversational interface to interact with structured data in Snowflake. It streamlines the development of intuitive, self-serve analytics applications for business users, while providing industry-leading accuracy.

How to leverage Fivetran and Starburst to supercharge your data lakehouse with end-to-end data pipelines.

Data is the driving force of the world’s modern economies, but data teams are struggling to meet demand to support generative AI (GenAI), including rapid data volume growth and the increasing complexity of data pipelines. More than 88% of software engineers, data scientists, and SQL analysts surveyed say they are turning to AI for more effective bug-fixing and troubleshooting. And 84% of engineers who use AI said it frees up their time to focus on high-value activities.

As compute gets increasingly powerful, the fact of the matter is: most AI workloads do not require the entire capacity of a single GPU. Computing power required across the model development lifecycle looks like a normal bell curve – with some compute required for data processing and ingestion, maximum firepower for model training and fine-tuning, and stepped-down requirements for ongoing inference.

With organizations prioritizing data-driven decision-making, the amount of collected and stored data is reaching historic highs. Meanwhile, organizations are democratizing access across all functions to convert this data into actionable insights. Since more users will work with sensitive data, ensuring secure access is more important than ever. Organizations must regulate and maintain the relationship between their data assets and users. Why?

The modern data-driven approach comes with a host of benefits. A few major ones include better insights, more informed decision-making, and less reliance on guesswork. However, some undesirable scenarios can occur in the process of generating, accumulating, and analyzing data. One such scenario involves organizational data scattered across multiple storage locations. In such instances, each department’s data often ends up siloed and largely unusable by other teams.

In today’s fast-paced business environment, having control over your data can be the difference between success and stagnation. Leaning on Master Data Management (MDM), the creation of a single, reliable source of master data, ensures the uniformity, accuracy, stewardship, and accountability of shared data assets.

Broadly defined, the supply chain management process (SCM) refers to the coordination of all activities amongst participants in the supply chain, such as sourcing and procurement of raw materials, manufacturing, distribution center coordination, and sales.