Building the Snowflake Data Cloud: Monetizing and Democratizing Your Data

Implement the Snowflake Data Cloud using best practices and reap the benefits of scalability and low-cost from the industry-leading, cloud-based, data warehousing platform. This book provides a detailed how-to explanation, and assumes familiarity with Snowflake core concepts and principles. It is a project-oriented book with a hands-on approach to designing, developing, and implementing your Data Cloud with security at the center. As you work through the examples, you will develop the skill, knowledge, and expertise to expand your capability by incorporating additional Snowflake features, tools, and techniques. Your Snowflake Data Cloud will be fit for purpose, extensible, and at the forefront of both Direct Share, Data Exchange, and Snowflake Marketplace.

• Understand why Data Cloud is important tothe success of your organization
• Up-skill and adopt Snowflake, leveraging the benefits of cloud platforms
• Articulate the Snowflake Marketplace and identify opportunities to monetize data
• Identify tools and techniques to accelerate integration with Data Cloud
• Manage data consumption by monitoring and controlling access to datasets
• Develop data load and transform capabilities for use in future projects 
  

​Andrew Carruthers is the Director for the Snowflake Corporate Data Cloud at the London Stock Exchange Group. Comprising two Snowflake accounts supporting both ingestion data lake and consumption analytics hub, the Corporate Data Cloud services a growing customer base of over 7,000 end users. He also leads both the Centre for Enablement developing tooling, best practices and training, and the Snowflake Landing Zone provisioning Snowflake Accounts conforming to both internal standards and best practices.