Snowflake

Snowflake runs a cloud data platform, now branded the AI Data Cloud, that organisations use to store, process and analyse data and to build AI and data applications with it. It is a fully managed service that works across several cloud providers and data types. Customers range from small organisations to large enterprises.

Services

• Data engineering: builds continuous data pipelines in the programming language the customer prefers.
• Analytics: runs queries and reporting over data held in the platform with very little maintenance work.
• AI and machine learning: lets customers create and deploy language models and ML models tailored to their own data.
• Data sharing and applications: shares live data across clouds and between organisations, and supports developing and distributing apps.
• Unified workloads: brings transactional, analytical and AI workloads together on one platform.
• AI agents: a governed coding agent and a personal work agent that operate inside the platform's security boundary.

Customers and markets

Organisations across many industries, with retail and consumer goods among the sectors showcased through customer stories. The company says thousands of customers use the platform.

Key facts

• Platform: fully managed, integrated across data types and clouds
• Security: unified governance, observability and disaster recovery regardless of cloud or region
• Interoperability: supports open table formats and a wide partner ecosystem