This is a brief summary of a discussion on Snowflake for Data Sharing

  • Data Silos prevent value realization
  • The Data cloud is a global network
    • Access
    • Governance
    • Action
  • Traditional methods
    • Copying files in FTP/cloud buckets
    • Building, maintaining and calling APIs
    • ETL pipelines
    • Data marts
  • Gaps
    • Copy and Move data
    • Costly to maintain
    • Data is delayed
    • Error-prone
    • Unsecured, once data is moved
  • 4200 customers in Snowflake
  • Financial data is accessible immediately without data pipelines
  • Thousands of companies share data with suppliers, partners or other business units
  • Snowflake data marketplace for retail
  • Data sharing is one of the six puzzles
    • Data engineering
    • Data lake
    • Date warehouse
    • Data science
    • Data applications
    • Data sharing
  • Secure data sharing
    • Single live, copy of the data
    • No differentiators
      • No moving, no copying
      • Live data, no delays
      • Share personalized, secure views
      • Governed, revocable access
      • Globally available, cross-cloud
  • Public market place
    • One stop shop of seeing data sources from market place
    • Share live data in a secure and governed way across business units, suppliers, partners
  • Private data exchange
    • Self governed walled garden
    • Distinct snowflake accounts or n organizations
    • Publish datasets and make data discoverable, with descriptions and example queries
    • Control who provides data
    • Govern access to datasets in your ecosystem
    • Monitor usage and access to data
    • Live data, no delays, No moving or copying, Personalized data, Globally available across clouds
  • Direct share
    • Share
      • Marketing vendor D3 receives data from Square for campaign targeting
      • D3 shares back with Square campaign results
      • Eliminated the need to request IT support for data extraction and loading
      • Now able to run campaigns more frequently and get results faster
  • Snowflake Data Marketplace
    • Easily discover open and commercial datasets across 16 categories
    • Reduce data integration costs with direct access to live ready-to-query data
    • Access the most current data available and receive real time updates automatically
  • Business outcomes
    • Reduce costs, Eliminate delays, democratize data access
    • Unlock new business insights
    • Strength business relationships
  • As a data provider and consumer, you can be precise on what could be shared
  • Object tagging is a foray by Snowflake in to introducing Catalog service on Snowflake data market place