Data Sharing with Snowflake

Every day, businesses across a wide variety of industries share data to support insights that drive efficiency and new business opportunities. However, existing methods for sharing data involve great effort on the part of data providers to share data, and involve great effort on the part of data customers to make use of that data. However, existing approaches to data sharing (such as e-mail, FTP, EDI, and APIs) have significant overhead and friction. For one, legacy approaches such as e-mail and FTP were never intended to support the big data volumes of today. Other data sharing methods also involve enormous effort. All of these methods require not only that the data be extracted, copied, transformed, and loaded, but also that related schemas and metadata must be transported as well. This creates a burden on data providers to deconstruct and stage data sets. This burden and effort is mirrored for the data recipient, who must reconstruct the data. As a result, companies are handicapped in their ability to fully realize the value in their data assets. Snowflake Data Sharing allows companies to grant instant access to ready-to-use data to any number of partners or data customers without any data movement, copying, or complex pipelines. Using Snowflake Data Sharing, companies can derive new insights and value from data much more quickly and with significantly less effort than current data sharing methods. As a result, companies now have a new approach and a powerful new tool to get the full value out of their data assets.