Snowflake AI Data Cloud

What do you like best about the product?

I'm in RevOps, so not 100% your typical user. I mostly use Snowflake to pull datasets and stitch things together in SQL: pipeline questions, customer data, whatever came up that week.

The main thing I like is that I can just do it myself. Write the query, share them, look at what comes back, access them via CLI, drop a quick chart on it in the worksheet to see if the trend is actually there. Before, that meant exporting to a spreadsheet or asking someone on the data team, which usually meant waiting a few days for an answer I needed that afternoon.

I don't need anyone else for the everyday questions anymore. For me that's the whole value.

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing really, I struggled a bit with the new worksheet structure but I got the hang of it now

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Answered that in the first q: clear, structured, sharable, easy to use data access to revenue data, customer, product data etc.

What do you like best about the product?

The way snowflake stores data through clod is the best part in the entire application where all the beginners also can use this snowflake application in easy way without confusion. Also AI/ Intelligence which provides all most all the answers for the user query.

What do you dislike about the product?

The part I dislike most about the Snowflake application is that it doesn’t allow an on-premises option and is only a cloud-based storage platform. Also, cost-wise it feels a bit high because it consumes more credits, and I’ve noticed low latency as well.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

In Snowflake, most of our integration problems have been solved through enterprise automation. It has also helped us address data storage issues in the iPaaS domain within our organization.

What do you like best about the product?

Ease of use, Everything at one place, Good functionality, Great integrations

What do you dislike about the product?

Worksheets shouldn't have been replaced, apart from that everything is good

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ease of integrations from other platforms for our data

What do you like best about the product?

It is super helpful to connect the tools

What do you dislike about the product?

nothing to add. super helpful in our daily routine.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

connections, it quickly log in.

What do you like best about the product?

it eliminates local storage while maintaining security and safely protecting or data. It's also pretty speedy when and easy to scale. the UI is very simple to navigate and support is very good. My favorite piece though is the introduction of CoCo AI assistant.

What do you dislike about the product?

Snowflake is continuously changing and evolving so things that are disliked are generally corrected pretty quickly. The main annoyance now is remembering to switch AI models when starting new conversations with CoCo.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Snowflake gets us quick access to our data and gives us the ability to dive into deficiencies and process opportunities.

What do you like best about the product?

I use Snowflake primarily for data warehousing and analytics, and I find it helps me manage large volumes of structured and semi-structured data efficiently with seamless scalability. I appreciate the separation of storage and compute, which allows me to optimize costs while maintaining performance, especially for running complex queries and supporting multiple workloads simultaneously. What I like most about Snowflake includes its ease of use, data sharing capabilities, performance, innovative features, and cloud-native design. The initial setup was fast and simple with minimal configuration, clear documentation, and smooth integrations, allowing the team to work on data pipelines and analytics right away. Additionally, Snowflake's scalability makes it easy for multiple teams to work efficiently without resource conflicts.

What do you dislike about the product?

I find that costs can spike unexpectedly, and I believe better forecasting tools would help. The advanced features have a steep learning curve, so guided workflows could ease adoption. Some integrations require custom work, and more native connectors would reduce the effort. Query optimization can be opaque, so more transparency would benefit advanced users.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Snowflake to manage large data volumes efficiently, solving scalability challenges and performance bottlenecks. It eliminates data silos and simplifies cost management with its separation of storage and compute, facilitating complex queries and supporting multiple workloads.

What do you like best about the product?

What I like most about Snowflake is its ability to separate storage and compute, which makes it easy to scale workloads without impacting performance. This architecture allows multiple teams to query the same data simultaneously while optimizing costs and maintaining fast query execution. Independent scaling of compute and storage for better performance and cost control. Excellent query performance, even with large datasets. Seamless integration with major cloud providers, BI tools, and data engineering platforms. Secure data sharing capabilities without copying or moving data. Minimal infrastructure management, allowing teams to focus on analytics instead of database administration. For me, the most valuable feature is the elastic scaling of virtual warehouses. I can allocate additional compute resources for demanding workloads and scale them back when they're no longer needed, improving both efficiency and cost management. The biggest benefit is improved productivity. Snowflake simplifies data warehousing, accelerates analytics, and enables teams to access and analyze large volumes of data without worrying about infrastructure or performance bottlenecks.

What do you dislike about the product?

The biggest drawback is cost management. While Snowflake's pay-as-you-go model is flexible, it's easy for compute costs to grow if resources aren't monitored carefully or workloads are not optimized. Heavy dependence on cloud infrastructure means organizations with strict on-premises requirements may have fewer deployment options.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Snowflake solves the challenge of storing, managing, and analyzing large volumes of data without the complexity of maintaining traditional data warehouse infrastructure. Its cloud-native architecture enables organizations to scale compute and storage independently while supporting analytics, data engineering, and AI workloads from a single platform. Centralizes data from multiple sources into a unified platform for analytics. Separates compute and storage, allowing workloads to scale independently. Delivers fast query performance for large datasets without extensive infrastructure management. Enables secure data sharing across teams and external partners without duplicating data. Integrates easily with BI tools, ETL pipelines, and machine learning platforms. In my workflow, Snowflake helps simplify data analysis by providing a reliable and scalable environment for querying and processing large datasets. Instead of spending time managing database infrastructure, I can focus on building reports, analyzing data, and supporting data-driven decision-making. The biggest benefit is improved scalability and faster analytics. Snowflake reduces operational overhead, accelerates data processing, and enables teams to generate insights more efficiently while adapting to changing business demands.

What do you like best about the product?

Its single tool for ETL, data processing, analytics, AI and dashboard. Super easy to use especially using AI. Highly integration with other applications liker AWS, GCP etc. Its performance is high and scalable as can process peta scale of data. The pricing is market competitive and support from Snowflake is effective. I like the learning tutorials and on demand class.

What do you dislike about the product?

It don't know alot of integrations to bring data like social media platform integrations etc so need a separate tool or self written scripts.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

For data reporting and transformation for peta scale data.

What do you like best about the product?

The company has done wonders in bringing the whole experience of consuming and transforming big data down. I’m biased to this because it’s extremely fast querying, scalable, decoupling compute from storage to address a number of workloads and, simply, because of how well it integrates into our data processing pipelines and analytics suite.

What do you dislike about the product?

Be mindful of your pricing since usage costs for compute can add up. Many of the advanced functionality and performance optimizations also require some ramp time for a new user to pick up.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Snowflake allowed us to consolidate and reconcile our data, significantly simplifying the ways that we managed and consumed it to deliver analytics insights. We saw tremendous improvements in how much time we spent preparing our data, as well as faster query times to provide better insights to the business – on a growing scale without the corresponding cost in staff or infrastructure.

What do you like best about the product?

The most often to not quick functionality of running code. Most of the time, depending on the data in the query, the results come back in within a few seconds.

What do you dislike about the product?

Although the error messages are helpful in giving you a clue at what is wrong with your code, they are not 100% accurate. Sometimes they reference the wrong line for where the error is, and sometimes it give s the wrong error reason.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Snowflake allows my company to pull data from different data tables and sources into one accessible space and allows for easy download/visibility.