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Snowflake Inc.

Snowflake

8.8 /10

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What is Snowflake?

Snowflake’s cloud data platform supports a multi-cloud strategy, including a cross-cloud approach to mix and match clouds as you see fit. Snowflake is available globally on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. With a common and interchangeable code base, Snowflake delivers advantages such as global data replication, which means you can move your data to any cloud in any region, without having to re-code your applications or learn new skills.

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Awards & Recognition

Snowflake won the following awards in the Analytical Data Store category

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2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Latest Award, 2024

7 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Strategy and Innovation
Product Impact

2023

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023

6 Top Rated Capabilities

1 Top Rated Features

2023

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2022

Snowflake Ratings

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90 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

+91 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Snowflake?

0% Negative

4% Neutral

96% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Performance Enhancing
Continually Improving Product
Reliable

Feature Ratings

Average 83

Data Management

Data Security

Distributed Processing

Workload Management and Monitoring

Platform Administration

Data Integration

Real Time Capabilities

Metadata Management

Analytics and Data Science Tools

Analytics and Reporting

Data Visualization

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 84

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Business Value Created

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of IT Administration

Quality of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Vendor Support

Breadth of Features

Snowflake Reviews

Vatsal G.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2023

Great Data Warehouse Capabilities, Expensive

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

ITs ability to perform queries fast and efficiently makes the tool versatile for data warehouse.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

1) IAM 2) Query Execution 3) Data Security

What do you dislike most about this product?

It can be an expensive tool if not managed well.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

The platform is great for data warehousing, fast and efficient. They always try to improve the query experience and come up with new features.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Viral G.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Media
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2023

Easy to use but a bit pricey

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

Its ability to execute queries fast like no other data warehouse has.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Simple syntax and industry leading software stability. We processed close to a billions of raw and it was better than almost all of the other alternatives.

What do you dislike most about this product?

cost: its a bit expensive

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

pricey but worth the money so if you have deep pockets and you want reliable data warehouse, snowflake is a great choice.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Enables Productivity
Caring

Ravi K.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Retail
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2023

Fantastic product!

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

Time travel, RBAC, Fail safe, separation of storage and compute cost, Auto clustering

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Time travel, RBAC, Fail safe, Parallel processing, warehouse auto scaling, separation of storage and compute cost, clustering, Data Security and Governance.

What do you dislike most about this product?

no fully supportive of SQL Stored procedures, and compute cost.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

When ownership transferred on any Object, other grants should not revoked.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2021 Emotional Footprint Champion

2021 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Snowflake Ratings

90 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+91 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Snowflake?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Data Management Includes data sharing, data storage, records management, and data security.

Data Security Includes ability to hide sensitive data by masking with special characters or anonymous information.

Distributed Processing Data storage and processing is shared among many physical or virtual independents servers or sites for high volume data with seamless access to large datasets.

Workload Management and Monitoring Includes task, performance, monitoring and time management

Platform Administration Includes back-end interface and administrative capabilities

Data Integration Includes integration of data from multiple sources, merging systems, transforming data and capture data to form a unified view of a company's data assets

Real Time Capabilities Ability to analytics and visualize data as soon as it becomes available in underline systems.

Metadata Management Easily manage metadata associated with customer data or audience segments.

Analytics and Data Science Tools Includes Analytics and Data science components such as AI, statistical and machine learning libraries

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Data Visualization Thematic visualization with the ability to change views, including color, pattern/icon, dot-density, chart, scaled-symbol, and 3D prism themes

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Snowflake Reviews

Vatsal G.

Great Data Warehouse Capabilities, Expensive

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Viral G.

Easy to use but a bit pricey

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Ravi K.

Fantastic product!

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Data Management

Data Security

Distributed Processing

Workload Management and Monitoring

Platform Administration

Data Integration

Real Time Capabilities

Metadata Management

Analytics and Data Science Tools

Analytics and Reporting

Data Visualization

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Business Value Created

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of IT Administration

Quality of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Vendor Support

Breadth of Features