Key Platform Announcements
AI & ML Capabilities
Snowflake Intelligence enables natural language data interaction, allowing business users to ask questions and get answers directly using conversational AI. This democratization of analytics reduces dependency on specialized data teams. Cortex Agents empowers development teams to build production-ready AI applications that reason across enterprise data. The platform now includes comprehensive AI governance features through AI Observability and Governance Gateway, ensuring compliant AI deployment while supporting real-time AI applications at enterprise scale.
Apps & Collaboration
Agentic Snowflake Native Apps and Cortex Knowledge Extensions enable rapid integration of third-party AI and data capabilities without complex integrations. Enhanced Data Clean Rooms facilitate secure, multi-party collaboration while maintaining data privacy and compliance requirements, opening new possibilities for partnerships and data monetization.
Intelligent Compute & Unified Governance
Snowflake Adaptive Compute revolutionizes resource management by automatically selecting optimal cluster sizes and optimizing price/performance ratios. Gone are the days of over-provisioning or performance bottlenecks. The new Cost-Based Anomaly Detection and Tag-Based Budgets provide unprecedented visibility and control over data spend, while AI-powered Horizon Catalog with Copilot capabilities simplifies data discovery and compliance. Enhanced security features, including Advanced MFA and immutable Snapshots, strengthen your security posture while ensuring comprehensive data protection.
Data Engineering & Analytics
Snowflake OpenFlow transforms data movement with effortless, multimodal integration supporting all data types within a unified platform. Standard Warehouse Gen2 delivers 2.1x faster analytics performance, while Cortex AI SQL enables analysts to query structured and unstructured data together using familiar SQL syntax. These advancements accelerate data lake modernization and enable real-time business intelligence through Enhanced Dynamic Tables featuring approximately 15-second latency.
dbt Projects
Snowflake announced a game-changing integration with native dbt project support, eliminating the friction that data teams have long faced when juggling between different platforms. Powered by the new dbt Fusion engine, this seamless integration allows users to build, deploy, and monitor dbt projects directly within Snowflake without any additional setup required.
The native integration streamlines analytics engineering workflows, accelerating project delivery while reducing complexity for data teams who can now perform all their dbt operations—from building and running to governing projects—within a single platform. This represents a significant leap forward for the modern data stack, providing a more cohesive experience that removes platform-switching overhead and enables faster development and deployment of data transformation projects.
Acquisition of Crunchy Data (PostgreSQL)
Snowflake made a strategic move to expand beyond traditional data warehousing by introducing Snowflake Postgres, an AI-ready, enterprise-grade PostgreSQL database fully integrated into their AI Data Cloud platform. This acquisition-driven initiative brings complete lifecycle management for PostgreSQL workloads directly within Snowflake’s ecosystem, eliminating the need for separate PostgreSQL infrastructure while supporting both analytical and transactional workloads in a unified environment.
The native integration streamlines analytics engineering workflows, accelerating project delivery while reducing complexity for data teams who can now perform all their dbt operations—from building and running to governing projects—within a single platform. This represents a significant leap forward for the modern data stack, providing a more cohesive experience that removes platform-switching overhead and enables faster development and deployment of data transformation projects.
This move signals Snowflake’s evolution from a data warehouse company to a comprehensive database services provider, particularly targeting the growing demand for AI and machine learning use cases that require both the analytical power of Snowflake and the transactional capabilities of PostgreSQL.
Business Impact
The innovations announced at Snowflake Summit 2025 deliver substantial business value across multiple dimensions. Adaptive Compute optimizes resource allocation, reducing waste by up to 40%, while Gen2 performance improvements deliver more than double the efficiency gains on existing workloads. Digital transformation initiatives will accelerate as SnowConvert AI reduces legacy migration timelines from years to months, and Snowflake Intelligence enables business users to self-serve insights, dramatically reducing IT backlogs.
Risk management capabilities are significantly enhanced through AI-powered catalog management that ensures compliance with evolving regulations. Advanced security features protect against emerging threats, while immutable snapshots provide enterprise-grade data protection for business continuity.
Strategic Business Opportunities
Customer experience initiatives will benefit from Cortex Agents for intelligent customer service and Snowflake Intelligence for real-time insights. Operational excellence becomes more achievable through intelligent compute optimization and real-time operational dashboards with automated anomaly detection. Innovation acceleration is supported through Native Apps for rapid prototyping and an AI-ready data platform for emerging use cases. Competitive differentiation opportunities emerge through secure data collaboration capabilities and accelerated time-to-market for data-driven products.
Ready to Transform Your Enterprise?
The innovations announced at Snowflake Summit 2025 represent a fundamental shift in enterprise data and AI capabilities. These advances enable entirely new ways of creating business value through data.
Contact Allata today to learn how our Snowflake experts can help you leverage these game-changing innovations to drive meaningful business outcomes.
