What do you like best about the product?

We build a centralised data warehouse on Snowflake to aggregate logistic data from Europe, Asia and North America. We use this setup to power real-time dashboards for our operations and customer service team. One of my favourite feature of Snowflake is its seamless integration with our existing ETL tool like Apache Airflow. The native support for semi structured data like JSON helped us on board external vendor feeds with minimal efforts. What I like best about Snowflake is its easy to use SQL interface and its learning curve is almost negligible for our team.

What do you dislike about the product?

While the implementation overall was smooth, but the cost structure required some time to optimise. Our initial test runs were costlier than expected until we tuned warehouse sizes and auto suspend settings. Additionally, role based access control was a bit complex to configure initially.

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

Our team’s daily productivity has gone up and we no more wait hours for batch jobs or struggles with performance bottlenecks. We have also build an automated alerting system using Snowflake which has reduced our manual monitoring efforts by at least 30%.