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FEATURE
Snowflake Horizon Catalog
Built-in data governance, security, and discovery for the AI Data Cloud that lets you easily protect and unlock the value of sensitive data, apps and models.
Manage metadata for all data & AI assets in one place.
Interoperate more easily across table formats, engines and catalogs.
Easily protect all content with granular capabilities.
Enable quick discovery and privacy-preserving collaboration.
Centralize threat monitoring and role-based access controls across clouds.
How Snowflake Horizon Catalog works
Data Governance and Compliance
Protect and audit your data, apps and models with data governance capabilities like tags, data quality monitoring and data lineage.
- Automatically classify, tag, protect and monitor sensitive data.
- Use an AI assistant to ask data and governance questions using natural language.
- Audit content usage through Data & Listing Access History and Schema Change Tracking.
- Continuously monitor data quality, be alerted to problems, and perform impact and root cause analyses.
- Visualize the end-to-end flow of data and understand relationships through object dependencies with lineage.
- Centrally apply granular access policies across all databases, schemas and tables (including open table formats) in an account.
Data Security
Secure your environment with continuous monitoring and management
- Safeguard data, apps and models with built-in encryption, authentication, network policies, unified RBAC and Listing Discovery Controls.
- Streamline security and compliance monitoring across clouds based on industry best practices with Trust Center.
- Use an AI assistant to ask data and security questions using natural language.
- Apply Horizon Catalog’s enterprise security features to Iceberg tables and other data — all within Snowflake for trusted analysis.
- Use AI-based monitoring of systems and networks to identify anomalies and potential threats in real time.
Data Privacy
Unlock the value of your sensitive data with advanced privacy policies and data clean rooms.
- Protect sensitive data while retaining analytical value with aggregation, projection and differential privacy policies.
- Use synthetic data generation for safer testing and model training without PII exposure.
- Easily collaborate on sensitive data with multiple teams inside and outside your organization with Snowflake Data Clean Rooms.
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Merkle Improves Customer Experiences While Providing Data Governance and Security
Merkle, a dentsu company, consolidates sensitive data and collaborates with clients in Snowflake, resulting in a more efficient, trusted data environment that expedites data access and reduces risk.
- 64% Faster data development cycle
- 20% Estimated cost savings
Discover
Immediately find and get the data you want with data catalog functionalities
- Discover and access data, apps and models from inside and outside your organization.
- Discover external data including Iceberg or Delta Tables in data lakes, relational databases, dashboards and semantic models.
- Securely access data products with your teams via an Internal Marketplace, or with partners and customers via Snowflake Marketplace.
- Learn relevant insights about the popularity, access, quality and dependencies of content.
- Automatically add relevant context and comments to tables and views for others to more easily curate and discover content with AI-powered Object Description.
Secure Data Collaboration
Work together on data without moving it
Share a single managed copy of data across cloud regions. No ETL or copies gives you fast delivery and control with insights derived from shared data.
Buy and sell data, apps and AI products with self-service trials, unified billing and the option to pay using committed Snowflake spend.
Your Governance Resources
Tap into the vast ecosystem of Snowflake resources, partner offerings and community of Data Superheroes.
Snowflake Horizon Catalog Partner Ecosystem
Maximize existing investments and manage your entire data estate with pre-built integrations by leading partners.
Snowflake Community
Meet and learn from a global network of data governance leaders in Snowflake’s community forum and Snowflake User Groups.
Snowflake Documentation
Meet and learn from a global network of data governance leaders in Snowflake’s community forum and Snowflake User Groups.
