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Snowflake

Snowflake

Composite Score
8.8 /10
CX Score
9.1 /10
Category
Snowflake
8.8 /10

What is Snowflake?

Snowflake’s cloud data platform supports a multi-cloud strategy, including a cross-cloud approach to mix and match clouds as you see fit. Snowflake is available globally on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. With a common and interchangeable code base, Snowflake delivers advantages such as global data replication, which means you can move your data to any cloud in any region, without having to re-code your applications or learn new skills.

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Awards & Recognition

Snowflake won the following awards in the Analytical Data Store category

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Snowflake Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

89 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+91 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Snowflake?

0% Negative
5% Neutral
95% Positive

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy

Feature Ratings

Average 82

Data Management

87

Workload Management and Monitoring

85

Distributed Processing

84

Data Security

84

Data Integration

82

Platform Administration

81

Metadata Management

80

Real Time Capabilities

80

Analytics and Data Science Tools

78

Data Visualization

77

Analytics and Reporting

76

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Ease of Implementation

85

Ease of Data Integration

84

Usability and Intuitiveness

83

Business Value Created

83

Quality of Features

83

Ease of IT Administration

82

Ease of Customization

81

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

80

Vendor Support

80

Breadth of Features

80

Availability and Quality of Training

80

Snowflake Reviews

Jinrong A.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2022

To monitor and improve data structures.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

With Snowflake, remote communication and decision-making are quick and easy because to a single common data source. Snowflake improves data security, availability, and resiliency, and simplifies automated data management. You can collaborate with vendors, staff members, and business partners using Snowflake to create a private platform and share data. Snowflake automates critical procedures, including data security, infrastructure, availability, and optimization.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I like Snowflake to drive data loads, perform analytics, and collect important data that helps me make faster, wiser business decisions. I can also handle data processing workloads of any size and a wide range of data types, whether they come from artificial or traditional sources. I can acquire real-time information, develop business insights, and evaluate data without bottlenecks. Without having to recode the programs that use the data, I can duplicate it and stream it anywhere.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Unstructured data in Snowflake is difficult to explore and review. The consultations can occasionally take a very long time for Snowflake to finish.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I recommend the advantages and solutions that Snowflake offers include: Contributes to cost optimization. Downtime can be reduced. Improves operational efficiency. Enables fast, automated recovery of data replication.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Mahmuda D.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2022

Snowflake is a unique SaaS analytics platform.

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

Snowflake's ability to manage a data warehouse and as a comprehensive SaaS data and analytics platform impresses. It queries and loads data quickly and is excellent with unstructured data. It excels at data analysis that consolidates and stores information inexpensively. It maintains a low-cost profile by automatically resuming and suspending virtual warehouses. In terms of upkeep, Snowflake triumphs over AWS Redshift. Almost no admin work to do—everything is taken care of for us. It is a valuable tool compared to similar programs because of many things, but we can alter the size of a warehouse or add clusters without interruption to service.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Snowflake aggregates cloud and platform databases into one warehouse. Elastic computing is a prominent feature, and the pay-per-use model optimizes budgets. It uses standard SQL, which most team members have used, and documentation is easy to find. This solution has easy-to-use SQL, a UI, and an intuitive and intuitive user interface. It provides role-based security for databases and data.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Snowflake should provide more detailed and broken-down queries for complex functions. The web UI editor lacks search-and-replace and automatic prediction. Some out-of-the-box integration options should be available to pull and push data to central CRM, ERP, and data warehousing tools. It will make things simpler. Snowflake's syntax and example code can be confusing.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Snowflake is recommendable software for business purposes and has helped analysts store and query data more efficiently. It allows managing roles on multiple levels, enabling customized data access for a large user base. As a tool, it's easy to use; it offers basic, advanced, and intermediate training to help clients use it.

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Security Protects
  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product

Chris M.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2022

Fantastic platform for cloud-based data warehouses

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

To increase the effectiveness of business operations, to become more customer-centric, and make it simpler to comply with laws compared to other databases I've come to know, all of them can be accomplished more quickly, and more efficiently.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I appreciate the strength and versatility of Snowflake as well as its appealing user interface. In addition to being a database with SQL and all the usual features, it offers outstanding capabilities for sharing and access control. For example, we have created row-access policies that only provide clients access to their data.

What do you dislike most about this product?

To become familiar with snowflake queries and structure, training is required. The extracting procedure requires specialized skills due to its unique syntax. The table constructions of Snowflake may have some intricate elements. Not every user will have access to all of the tables in Snowflake because different roles place varying limitations on the table objects.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

With Snowflake's easy integration, we were able to quickly move data from our third-party apps. It works swiftly and efficiently, saving us time while improving the quality of our work and lowering costs and time waste. I personally advise you to do this.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy

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