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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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2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2023

Strategy and Innovation
Product Impact

Latest Award, 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

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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90 Likeliness to Recommend

2
Since last award

99 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

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

Eyad B.

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Transportation
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2024

Easy to use

Likeliness to Recommend

6 /10

What do you dislike most about this product?

expensive to have

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing
Unique Features
Inspires Innovation

Role: Finance
Industry: Food and Beverage
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2024

Very intuitive and quick platform

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

Pros

Helps Innovate
Trustworthy
Inspires Innovation
Fair

Cristian L.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2024

Simplify data management and increase performance.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

Snowflake is easy to deploy or scale, and since it's all cloud-based, there's nothing stopping anyone interested from using it. The SQL-based approach makes it easy to manage and query data lakes, and the cloud-native setup ensures everything runs smoothly. Therefore, you can count on optimal performance even when dealing with heavy data workloads.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Its continued stability, made possible by a well-designed architecture that easily handles massive data demands, is excellent. Additionally, the ability to time travel helps us with data recovery and error debugging. We can send data to monitor the change of SCD and it is failsafe for disaster recovery.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Many open source tools cannot be used natively. Materialized views are limited to a single table.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Snowflake is ideal for cloud-based analytical data warehouse type workloads, where the data is large and query access patterns are well established. It can be your common tool for extracting data and creating tables as SQL is a basic and easy-to-use data science language without the need to fully understand the data type.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Awards & Recognition

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

2 Since last award

99 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

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

Eyad B.

Easy to use

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Very intuitive and quick platform

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cristian L.

Simplify data management and increase performance.

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