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USE CASE
build a better enterprise lakehouse
Establish a new level of enterprise security, connectivity and performance for your data — without lock-in — to empower teams with trusted AI, advanced analytics and more on a single copy of data.
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Secure your data
Protect your data against lock-in, disasters and unwanted access.
Conquer data complexity
Connect any data to streamline pipelines and deliver governed data to any user.
Empower teams
Deliver trusted AI, analytics and more to any data customer.
govern for ai
Protect your data against lock-in, unwanted access and disasters
Build your lakehouse with Horizon Catalog, the universal AI catalog that provides built-in context and governance for AI across all data — compatible with any engine, any data format, anywhere.
Interoperate without lock-in
Manage secure, multi-engine access for a growing ecosystem of engines supporting Iceberg tables while preserving your option to migrate to Apache Polaris™ (incubating) anytime.
Isolate data access at scale
Access all your data, across catalogs and formats, to power your Iceberg pipelines with simplified declarative frameworks and a fully managed infrastructure.
Protect against disasters
Enjoy greater peace of mind knowing your business is ready if disaster strikes. Snowflake replication provides asynchronous copying of account objects and databases across regions and clouds, enabling failover groups for comprehensive data protection of your enterprise lakehouse.
CONQUER DATA COMPLEXITY
Build AI-Ready Pipelines with Limitless Interoperability for Your Lakehouse
Use a unified and global management plane with out-of-the-box, RBAC, fine-grained access controls (FGAC), attribute-based access controls (ABAC), and proactive customizable data quality mechanism.
Streamline pipelines
Scale your pipelines — not your cost — with automated and declarative tools that handle the infrastructure for you.
Connect existing data
Federate from any Iceberg REST catalog to build a unified and governed view of your data estate for full DML and DDL operations.
Connect new data
Connect any data for AI. Preserve metadata and semantics while enjoying superior economics for stream or batch ingestion with an option for low-code pipelines.
Benefit from best performance on latest spec
Extend Snowflake’s world-class price for performance to an even broader set of use cases for your Iceberg tables — regardless of catalog — with support for the V3 specification.
Optimize your Iceberg tables
Optimize performance and storage for any engine, no matter where the data lives.
Share AI-ready data
Collaborate more easily while preserving interoperability with Secure Data Sharing for Iceberg and Delta tables. Minimize complex ETL pipelines, reduce costs and share governed access across regions and clouds.
Build for AI
Accelerate your entire AI lifecycle — from development to trusted production — across unstructured, semistructured and structured data, leveraging state-of-the-art LLMs within Snowflake's unified, governed platform.
empower teams
Experience the possibilities FROM powerful lakehouse analytics
Deliver trusted AI, analytics and more to every data customer
Drive outcomes with fast, trusted insights and AI based on virtually all your lakehouse data, plus enjoy reliable, world-class price for performance across all workloads on open table formats.
Supercharge decision-making
Scale your team’s impact by empowering every data customer with governed analytics, AI and data products they can trust.
Focus on innovation
Accelerate your roadmap with Snowflake's elastic engine, which provides separated compute and adaptive concurrency to deliver reliable speed without intervention.
Connect AI-ready data
Process unstructured data or add production-ready, trusted third-party sources with Snowflake Cortex AI, Document AI, AISQL and Cortex Knowledge Base.
customers
Leading Organizations Build Their Enterprise Lakehouse with Snowflake
Affirm Achieves Data Sovereignty and Improves Performance
Affirm turned to Snowflake for its financial workloads to enhance operational efficiency and performance — without compromising flexibility and choice.
- 66% Faster SLAs, enhancing data freshness
- 6X Lower monthly costs for replication pipeline
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