At BUILD 2024, Snowflake unveiled Snowflake Intelligence, a revolutionary new platform designed to empower enterprises to unlock data-driven insights and take immediate action on them. Built on Snowflake’s trusted data foundation, Snowflake Intelligence enables teams to create data agents that interact with data in natural language, streamlining the process of querying, analyzing, and taking action on enterprise data without the need for code.
1. Transforming Business Intelligence
- Snowflake Intelligence redefines the way businesses access and utilize their data. By integrating structured and unstructured data sources, Snowflake Intelligence enables natural language interactions with business data.
- Data agents take action based on insights, ensuring that business decisions are informed by reliable, enterprise-grade data.
- Key benefit: Democratizes data and AI access for all users, empowering everyone within an organization to ask questions and take action based on data-driven insights.
2. How Snowflake Intelligence Works
- Data Agents: Enable business users to interact with enterprise data using natural language, eliminating the need for coding.
- Integration with Third-Party Tools: Seamlessly connects with tools like Salesforce, Slack, Google Workspace, and SharePoint, ensuring that data from diverse sources is accessible and actionable.
- AI-Powered Actions: Snowflake Intelligence leverages Snowflake Cortex AI to run queries on both structured and unstructured data, enabling business users to perform tasks like summarization, data generation, and analysis on the fly.
3. Breaking Down Data Silos
- Addressing Governance and Fragmentation: By introducing a single governance layer, Snowflake Intelligence integrates siloed data systems, making it easier for businesses to access and analyze both unstructured and structured data in a unified way.
- Natural Language Access: Business users can now retrieve and process data from diverse formats (e.g., PDFs, databases) without needing to understand complex code.
4. Empowering Teams to Act on Insights
- As users interact with Snowflake Intelligence, data agents perform tasks such as summarization, generation, and decision recording, all aimed at driving immediate action.
- Tracking and Measuring Impact: Snowflake Intelligence makes it easy to track business decisions and measure outcomes by recording actions directly in Snowflake tables, helping organizations to monitor progress and optimize strategies.
5. Cortex AI and Horizon Catalog: The Engine Behind Snowflake Intelligence
- Snowflake Cortex AI powers the AI capabilities within Snowflake Intelligence, offering features like generative AI, large language model (LLM) inference, and text-to-SQL for more advanced data processing.
- Cortex Search and Cortex Analyst allow users to query both structured and unstructured data effortlessly.
- The platform is integrated with Snowflake Horizon Catalog, ensuring strong compliance, privacy, and security for enterprise AI applications across clouds and regions.
6. Enabling Secure and Governed AI at Scale
- Snowflake Horizon Catalog enhances governance capabilities, allowing teams to deliver secure, compliant, and scalable AI solutions.
- With Snowflake Intelligence, businesses spend less time managing security and more time innovating, as the platform provides enterprise-grade compliance, discovery, and collaboration features.
Snowflake Intelligence marks a pivotal advancement in how organizations can interact with and act on their enterprise data. By combining AI-driven natural language interfaces with enterprise-grade security and governance, Snowflake Intelligence empowers teams to unlock insights, make informed decisions, and take immediate action—without the complexity of traditional data processing tools. This innovation marks a significant step forward in the evolution of data-driven business intelligence and AI applications.
