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Snowflake forPublic Sector
Turn vast, siloed data into actionable insights to improve citizen services, support mission readiness and resilience, and advance student outcomes. Securely share and analyze data, seamlessly collaborate across agencies and partners and build a foundation for trusted AI.
Leading public sector organizations trust Snowflake to mobilize their data.
Overview
Drive impactful outcomes with data and AI
Public sector organizations are uniting their data on a single, governed platform to address their critical challenges. With Snowflake, you can securely collaborate across agencies, maximize your resources and accelerate innovation with a secure foundation for AI.
Unlock data-driven insights and drive mission outcomes
Siloed data prevents the holistic view of the citizen, program, and mission needed for critical decision-making. Unify data from disparate sources into a secure single environment, and apply advanced analytics and AI/ML to deliver timely, actionable insights to accelerate your strategic priorities.
Maximize Public Resources with Elastic Scale and Speed
Overcome performance limitations and maintenance costs that divert resources from strategic priorities. Maximize resources and lower your Total Cost of Ownership with a fully managed, hyper-efficient platform. Instantly scale compute to meet dynamic needs, for optimal performance, and match costs to mission needs with a consumption-based pricing model.
Accelerate innovation on a secure, compliant platform
Operate with confidence on a secure platform with built-in governance that supports stringent public sector standards like DoD IL5 and FedRAMP High. Available in select government cloud regions, including AWS GovCloud and Microsoft Azure Government.
Solutions
Why Snowflake for Public Sector
Streamline fraud detection
Combat fraud, waste and abuse
Unify all data and deploy sophisticated AI and ML to identify complex and evolving fraud patterns, detect unusual activity, and ensure program integrity.
Drive operational agility
Modernize legacy systems
Improve performance and operational agility — and lower total cost of ownership (TCO) — by migrating away from complex legacy systems to a modern data infrastructure.
unify your ecosystem
Securely share data and collaborate
- Break down silos by sharing live, governed data across agencies and with trusted partners — without copying or moving data, and costly integrations.
- Work with data from Snowflake Marketplace (such as anonymized health or transportation data) to enrich your own data and enhance analytics for faster, data-driven decision-making.
Unify data for a comprehensive view
Deliver a personalized experience
Bring together disparate data sets to create a comprehensive view of any person or entity. For a citizen, this means improving program integrity and delivering personalized services; for a soldier, it means integrating personnel, training and medical data to enhance mission readiness.
Compliance
Security and compliance capabilities built in
Snowflake supports leading, globally recognized public sector and commercial security standards to enable compliance and data protection.
CUSTOMERS
Leading companies lead with Snowflake
NYC Health + Hospitals Elevates Care for New Yorkers Experiencing Homelessness
With Snowflake, NYC Health + Hospitals has centralized its healthcare data, surfaced insights to drive efficiency, and developed comprehensive patient views to elevate care for all New Yorkers, especially those experiencing homelessness.
- 5min to equip users with updated membership data — down from five days
- 100B+ rows of healthcare data in Snowflake provide a holistic view of patients
The Superior Court of California of the County of Orange maximizes operational efficiency and reduces caseload backlog
With Snowflake, the country’s fifth-largest trial court has scaled data insights, increased collaboration and improved operational efficiency to better serve the public.
The City of Tacoma Advances Data Innovation and Public Safety
With Snowflake, the City of Tacoma has pioneered its CJIS-compliant police dashboard, enabled citywide collaboration through secure data sharing, and advanced data innovation to enhance public safety and better serve its residents.
Florida State University Builds for the Future with AI and Self-Service Analytics
With Snowflake, Florida State University combines data from 47 disparate sources, responds 95% faster to stakeholders’ data needs, maximizes value from unstructured data and delivers a better student experience.
- 95% faster time to value for internal stakeholders, sharing data in five days vs. 90 previously
- 11x increase in connected data sources — while accelerating performance
City and County of San Francisco Elevates Data Management and Sharing to Better Serve the Public
With Snowflake, San Francisco’s Department of Technology empowers the city’s dozens of departments to maximize data — from helping SFO increase productivity to enabling the Shared Spaces program.
- 50% faster data refresh operations with 18x more data
- 300k faster data refresh in Tableau dashboards
SNOWFLAKE PARTNER NETWORK
Explore public sector partners
Accelerate data access, drive secure collaboration and deploy AI across your ecosystem.
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- $400 in free usage to start
- Immediate access to the AI Data Cloud
- Enable your most critical data workloads
Snowflake for public sector
Frequently Asked Questions
Commonly asked questions and their answers to support your data and AI journey with Snowflake.
What are the advantages of Snowflake's AI Data Cloud for public sector organizations?
Some of the advantages of the AI Data Cloud for Public Sector are that it enables teams to break down data silos across agencies and mission partners, enable secure, live data sharing without copying or moving data, and operate on a single, governed platform for data and AI workloads. In addition, it allows organizations to modernize legacy systems to reduce costs and enhance effectiveness and helps ensure data sovereignty with deployments in dedicated government cloud regions.
What are the key public sector use cases that Snowflake supports?
Snowflake can support a number of key public sector use cases. Chief among them are:
Fraud, waste and abuse detection: Unify data to rapidly identify improper payments.
Financial management: Unify financial data to optimize spending and ensure fiscal accountability.
Logistics and supply chain management: Optimize operations with a near real-time view of assets.
Secure data collaboration: Share live, governed data across agencies and with allied partners.
Data infrastructure modernization: Migrate from costly legacy systems to a scalable cloud platform.
- Citizen 360: Create comprehensive views of citizens, soldiers, or students to improve services.
How can my agency build and deploy AI applications securely on Snowflake?
Snowflake makes it simple to bring your AI/ML models and applications directly to your governed data. Use Snowflake Cortex AI for serverless, ready-to-use AI functions, or leverage Snowpark Container Services to run custom applications and LLMs securely within your Snowflake account. Because data never leaves the platform for processing, you’re able to maintain security and governance.
How does Snowflake help government agencies meet stringent compliance and security requirements like FedRAMP or DoD IL5?
Snowflake has deployments that operate in dedicated government cloud regions like AWS GovCloud and Microsoft Azure Government. The platform has achieved and maintains high-level authorizations, including DoD IL5 and FedRAMP High in select deployments. It also provides built-in, enterprise-grade, and configurable security features like end-to-end encryption and granular access controls, as well as supports modern security frameworks like Zero Trust architecture.
How does Snowflake integrate with our existing legacy systems during a modernization initiative?
Snowflake allows you to migrate quickly from legacy systems with automated tooling like SnowConvert. A broad ecosystem of technology and systems integrator partners with deep public sector expertise are available to maximize the value of Snowflake, and a wide range of data sources and existing tools are ready to connect. Ingest data in its raw format and apply transformations as needed, simplifying data pipelines.
How does Snowflake fit into your enterprise architecture?
Snowflake helps with eliminating architectural complexity and the need for multiple data systems. The Snowflake AI Data Cloud provides a single, unified platform designed to consolidate all your disparate data, securely break down silos, and build a data foundation for trusted AI.
Here’s how Snowflake’s unique architecture fits into and improves your enterprise's data stack:
Single environment for data: Get a unified view of all your data without complex integrations or data duplication. Snowflake supports diverse data types, bringing together both structured and unstructured data.
Secure collaboration: Break down silos by securely sharing live, governed data across agencies and with trusted mission partners. This enables the collaboration required for a modern, effective government.
Manage resources: Snowflake separates storage and compute resources and provides a usage-based pricing model. This enables your organization to scale compute resources as needed and only pay for what you use.
Maximize resources: As a managed platform, Snowflake handles all of the infrastructure, maintenance, upgrades, and tuning. Freeing up your team to focus on delivering on your mission.
