Snowflake Inc. is a publicly traded cloud data platform company (NYSE: SNOW), founded in 2012 and headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. Its platform—often referred to as the Snowflake Data Cloud—runs natively across major public clouds and provides capabilities for data warehousing, data lakehouse workloads, secure data sharing, governance, and support for analytics, AI, and machine learning.
For industrial and chemical enterprises, Snowflake enables the unification of operational data (e.g., plant, process, and sensor data) with enterprise information such as supply chain, quality, finance, and customer data. This architecture allows companies to build scalable, governed data foundations for use cases including production and asset performance analytics, demand and inventory forecasting, product quality monitoring, regulatory and emissions reporting, and R&D data integration. Snowflake’s ecosystem includes connectors and partner solutions that facilitate ingestion and contextualization of OT/IT data, while its secure data sharing and marketplace features support collaboration with suppliers, customers, and service providers.