Turn vast, siloed data into actionable insights to improve citizen services, support mission readiness and resilience, and advance student outcomes. Securely share and analyze data, seamlessly collaborate across agencies and partners, and build a foundation for trusted AI.
Overview
Public sector organizations are uniting their data on a single, governed platform to address their strategic priorities. With Snowflake, you can securely collaborate and turn data into actionable insights, maximize resources with cloud efficiency, and accelerate innovation with a trusted data foundation for AI.
Siloed data prevents the holistic view of the citizen, program, and mission needed for critical decision-making. Unify data from disparate sources into a secure single environment, and apply advanced analytics and AI to deliver timely, actionable insights.
Overcome performance limitations and high maintenance costs that divert resources. Lower your total cost of ownership (TCO) with a fully managed, hyper-efficient platform. Instantly scale compute to meet dynamic needs and match costs to mission needs with a consumption-based pricing model.
Operate with confidence on a secure platform with built-in governance that supports stringent public sector standards like DoD IL5 and FedRAMP High. Available in select government cloud regions, including AWS GovCloud and Microsoft Azure Government.
Use Cases
Streamline fraud detection
Unify all data and deploy sophisticated AI and ML to identify complex and evolving fraud patterns, detect unusual activity, and ensure program integrity.
Drive operational agility
Improve performance and operational agility — and lower total cost of ownership (TCO) — by migrating away from complex legacy systems to a modern data infrastructure.
unify your ecosystem
Unify data for a comprehensive view
Bring together disparate data sets to create a comprehensive view of any person or entity. For a citizen, this means improving program integrity and delivering personalized services; for a soldier, it means integrating personnel, training and medical data to enhance mission readiness.
Compliance
Snowflake supports leading, globally recognized public sector and commercial security standards to enable compliance and data protection.
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NYC Health + Hospitals Elevates Care for New Yorkers Experiencing Homelessness
With Snowflake, NYC Health + Hospitals has centralized its healthcare data, surfaced insights to drive efficiency, and developed comprehensive patient views to elevate care for all New Yorkers, especially those experiencing homelessness.
Leading public sector organizations trust Snowflake to mobilize their data.
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Snowflake for public sector
Commonly asked questions and their answers to support your data and AI journey with Snowflake.
Some of the advantages of the AI Data Cloud for Public Sector are that it enables teams to break down data silos across agencies and mission partners, enable secure, live data sharing without copying or moving data, and operate on a single, governed platform for data and AI workloads. In addition, it allows organizations to modernize legacy systems to reduce costs and enhance effectiveness and helps ensure data sovereignty with deployments in dedicated government cloud regions.
Snowflake can support a number of key public sector use cases. Chief among them are:
Fraud, waste and abuse detection: Unify data to rapidly identify improper payments.
Financial management: Unify financial data to optimize spending and ensure fiscal accountability.
Logistics and supply chain management: Optimize operations with a near real-time view of assets.
Secure data collaboration: Share live, governed data across agencies and with allied partners.
Data infrastructure modernization: Migrate from costly legacy systems to a scalable cloud platform.
Snowflake makes it simple to bring your AI/ML models and applications directly to your governed data. Use Snowflake Cortex AI for serverless, ready-to-use AI functions, or leverage Snowpark Container Services to run custom applications and LLMs securely within your Snowflake account. Because data never leaves the platform for processing, you’re able to maintain security and governance.
Snowflake has deployments that operate in dedicated government cloud regions like AWS GovCloud and Microsoft Azure Government. The platform has achieved and maintains high-level authorizations, including DoD IL5 and FedRAMP High in select deployments. It also provides built-in, enterprise-grade, and configurable security features like end-to-end encryption and granular access controls, as well as supports modern security frameworks like Zero Trust architecture.
Snowflake allows you to migrate quickly from legacy systems with automated tooling like SnowConvert. A broad ecosystem of technology and systems integrator partners with deep public sector expertise are available to maximize the value of Snowflake, and a wide range of data sources and existing tools are ready to connect. Ingest data in its raw format and apply transformations as needed, simplifying data pipelines.
Snowflake helps with eliminating architectural complexity and the need for multiple data systems. The Snowflake AI Data Cloud provides a single, unified platform designed to consolidate all your disparate data, securely break down silos, and build a data foundation for trusted AI.
Here’s how Snowflake’s unique architecture fits into and improves your enterprise's data stack:
Single environment for data: Get a unified view of all your data without complex integrations or data duplication. Snowflake supports diverse data types, bringing together both structured and unstructured data.
Secure collaboration: Break down silos by securely sharing live, governed data across agencies and with trusted mission partners. This enables the collaboration required for a modern, effective government.
Manage resources: Snowflake separates storage and compute resources and provides a usage-based pricing model. This enables your organization to scale compute resources as needed and only pay for what you use.
Maximize resources: As a managed platform, Snowflake handles all of the infrastructure, maintenance, upgrades, and tuning. Freeing up your team to focus on delivering on your mission.
