Company profile
Snowflake runs a fully managed, multi-cloud data platform separating storage and compute, supporting SQL warehousing, data engineering, data lakes on Apache Iceberg, secure data sharing and AI via Cortex. It is bought by data and analytics teams in enterprises of all sizes. It is notable for its consumption-based model and its data sharing and marketplace ecosystem across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
- Ownership
- Publicly listed · NYSE: SNOW
- Employees
- 5,001–10,000
Industries served
Key offerings
Snowflake AI Data CloudSnowflake Cortex AISnowparkSnowflake MarketplaceSnowflake Openflow
Typical use cases
- →Enterprise data warehouse modernization off legacy appliances
- →Secure data sharing with partners and suppliers
- →Building LLM applications on governed enterprise data
Strengths
- +Near-zero administration with elastic, separated compute and storage
- +Strong cross-cloud data sharing and marketplace ecosystem
- +Expanding native AI, Iceberg and data engineering capabilities
Considerations
- −Consumption costs can escalate without strong FinOps controls
- −Less mature than Databricks for some ML and data science workloads
- −Customer data runs only on public cloud infrastructure
Typical Deloitte services
- Data platform migration and modernization
- Data governance and operating model design
- AI and analytics use-case development on Snowflake
Editorial profile based on public information.