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Data Cloud: Where Data Thrives

Join the ecosystem where Snowflake customers securely share and consume shared data with each other, and with commercial data providers and data service providers.

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Whether its marketing analytics, a security data lake, or another line of business, learn how you can easily store, access, unite, and analyze essentially all your data with Snowflake.

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Create New Data-Driven Business Insights

Access third-party data to provide deeper insights to your organization, and get your own data from SaaS vendors you already work with, directly into your Snowflake account.

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The Modern Way to Share and Monetize Your Data

Generate more revenue and increase your market presence by securely and instantly publishing live, governed, and read-only data sets to thousands of Snowflake customers.

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Snowflake Partner Network

If you’re moving data into Snowflake or extracting insight out of Snowflake, our technology partners and system integrators will help you deploy Snowflake for your success.

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Snowflake Technology Partners integrate their solutions with Snowflake, so our customers can easily get data into Snowflake and insights out of Snowflake by creating a single copy of data for their cloud data analytics strategy.

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Snowflake is available on AWS, Azure, and GCP in countries across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Japan. Thanks to our global approach to cloud computing, customers can get a single and seamless experience with deep integrations with our cloud partners and their respective regions.

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As a Snowflake customer, easily and securely access data from potentially thousands of data providers that comprise the ecosystem of the Data Cloud. Also engage data service providers to complete your data strategy and obtain the deepest, data-driven insights possible.

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Powered by Snowflake program is designed to help software companies and application developers build, operate, and grow their applications on Snowflake. The program offers technical advice, access to support engineers who specialize in app development, and joint go-to-market opportunities.

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Kevin is a Technical Director on the Customer Acceleration Team (SnowCAT) at Snowflake, focused on taking customers to the next level using Snowflake’s most strategic and bleeding edge features. He has designed and developed Data Warehouses and Business Intelligence systems for Fortune 500 companies since the mid-1990’s.

Getting Started with GEOGRAPHY Data—Why Don’t Planes Fly in a Straight Line?

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Jun 06, 2022

Getting Started with GEOGRAPHY Data—Why Don’t Planes Fly in a Straight Line?

Last June, Snowflake released geospatial data using the GEOGRAPHY data type to general availability. Since…

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Getting Started with GEOGRAPHY Data—Why Don’t Planes Fly in a Straight Line?