Course
BI Analytics Bootcamp for data analysts
Take a free course designed to introduce you to the power of Snowflake and top business intelligence (BI) tools.
Use Case
AI-PoweredBusiness Intelligence
Transform the way you work with LLM-powered SQL, chat applications and scalable business intelligence.
751 of Forbes Global 2000 Companies Use Snowflake*
Overview
Building self-service analytics that stakeholders can use takes time. Speed it up by integrating AI into your everyday workflows.
Building pipelines and gold layers so that teams can get useful information from enterprise data can be tough — especially when it’s scattered across solutions. Boosted by AI capabilities and easy integration with leading tools, Snowflake delivers one platform to process all types of data at scale so you can deliver meaningful insights.
Easily transform multimodal data into business understanding
Effortlessly query structured and unstructured data together for deep intelligence using intuitive AI-powered SQL.
Bolster your organization with intelligent conversational insights
Empower smarter decisions with intuitive, conversational data exploration. Start asking, start discovering.
Power your largest BI workloads with unwavering accuracy and lightning-fast performance
Gain insights faster with intuitive interfaces and ensure consistent results across all your favorite tools — AI apps, BI platforms and notebooks.
Benefits
Use a single source of truth for AI, BI and beyond
Supercharge analysts
Turn data analysts into AI superheroes
Cortex AISQL is a new AI query language that brings the most powerful LLMs to your SQL interface. Scale batch analytics with multimodal data through LLM-powered SQL for forecasting, audio transcription, sentiment analysis, anomaly detection and more.
Chat with docs and more
Talk to your data in natural language
- Interact with self-service analytics applications. Ask questions in natural language and effortlessly follow up for deeper insights through a seamless native experience with Snowflake Intelligence.
Enable access and action to enterprise data for everyone in your organization through a text-to-SQL service with Cortex Analyst and Streamlit.
- Go beyond structured data. Chat with unstructured data with Cortex Search, a fully managed RAG engine.
Unified Semantics
Define metrics once, trust them everywhere
- Define complex metrics and relationships directly within Snowflake using native Semantic Views, eliminating the chaos of fragmented logic across different dashboards.
Enhance consistency, helping every query — whether from a dashboard, an AI agent or an analyst — return the same answer.
- Deliver more accurate responses that minimize hallucinations by providing the governed, business-aware foundation required for Cortex Analyst and Snowflake Intelligence.
AI-Powered Modeling
Accelerate time to insight with automated data modeling
Eliminate weeks of manual coding with Semantic View Autopilot, which uses AI to instantly generate comprehensive semantic models based on your actual data patterns.
Align your model with how your business actually uses data by letting Semantic View Autopilot identify the most relevant metrics and dimensions from your query history.
Automatically refine and update your semantic layer as your data evolves, reducing the maintenance burden on data engineering teams.
Open Semantic Standard
Foster innovation with interoperability across AI and BI platforms
Reduce vendor lock-in and enhance flexibility by using the open, neutral Open Semantic Interchange (OSI) framework to provide consistent metrics across dashboards, notebooks and ML models.
Build your metrics in Snowflake and deliver them natively to tools like Tableau and Sigma, without redefining logic.
Drive faster performance by facilitating shared business context across your entire ecosystem, ensuring your AI and BI tools always speak the same language.
Industry-leading LLMs at your fingertips
“This chatbot … has been a game changer for Siemens Energy. The ability to unlock and democratize the data hidden in our data treasure trove has given us a distinct competitive edge."
Tim Kessler
Head of Data, Models & Analytics, Siemens Energy
- 700k+ pages of documents summarized for faster innovation and time to market
- ~25 highly specialized R&D engineers now have near-instant access to data and insights
Capabilities
Dive into Snowflake’s AI-powered BI capabilities
Resources
Snowflake AI-powered BI Resources
Get Started
Take the next stepwith Snowflake
Start your 30-day free Snowflake trial today
- $400 in free usage to start
- Immediate access to the AI Data Cloud
- Enable your most critical data workloads
AI-powered business intelligence
Frequently Asked Questions
Learn about real-time analytics, NLP for insights, integrating AI models with BI tools, and data governance for your dashboards.
What LLMs are provided out-of-the-box from Snowflake?
Through Snowflake Cortex AI, you get serverless access to a range of industry-leading Large Language Models (LLMs). This includes models from providers like Meta (Llama models), Google (Gemma), Mistral AI, Anthropic (Claude models), and OpenAI as well as Snowflake's own open enterprise-grade models like Arctic. These can be accessed via simple SQL or Python functions for various tasks.
What BI tools are available?
Snowflake offers broad compatibility with a wide variety of leading Business Intelligence (BI) tools. Popular choices like Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Looker (Google Cloud), Qlik, and ThoughtSpot connect seamlessly to Snowflake using native connectors, ODBC, or JDBC drivers. For a comprehensive list, you can explore Snowflake's technology partners here.
How do I manage data governance for BI dashboards in Snowflake?
Snowflake provides robust, centralized data governance that extends to your BI dashboards. Through Snowflake Horizon, you can implement:
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to define who sees what data.
Data Masking policies to protect sensitive information in BI tools.
Row-Access Policies for fine-grained data visibility.
Object Tagging for classifying data and tracking lineage, ensuring consistent governance from source to dashboard.
Can Snowflake support embedded AI in BI tools?
Yes, Snowflake facilitates embedding AI into BI tools. You can:
Run Cortex AISQL functions (e.g., for forecasting, anomaly detection, or using LLMs) directly via SQL, with results consumed by BI tools.
Utilize Snowpark ML to deploy custom ML models within Snowflake, making predictions available for BI dashboards.
Many BI tools also have their own AI features that can connect to and leverage data processed or enriched by AI within Snowflake.
How do I use NLP to generate insights from Snowflake tables?
Snowflake enables Natural Language Processing (NLP) for insights through Snowflake Cortex AI. Features like Cortex Analyst allow users to ask questions about their data in natural language, which then get converted into SQL queries. You can also use Cortex LLM functions to build applications that interpret natural language to query and summarize data from your tables.
