Snowflake Inc. is a cloud-based data platform company that provides scalable data warehousing, data lake/lakehouse, data engineering, and analytics capabilities delivered as a managed service on major public clouds. It supports structured and semi-structured data, separates storage and compute for elastic performance, and offers security, governance, and controlled data sharing across organizations.
In chemical and other industrial sectors, Snowflake is used to consolidate data from plants, laboratories, supply chains, and enterprise systems, enabling cross-functional analytics, AI/ML workloads, and standardized reporting. Common use cases include production and quality analysis, demand and inventory planning, asset performance and predictive maintenance, regulatory compliance and sustainability metrics, and collaboration with suppliers and customers.