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.
Building the Snowflake Data Cloud helps you transform your organization into monetizing the value locked up within your data. As the digital economy takes hold, with data volume, velocity, and variety growing at exponential rates, you need tools and techniques to quickly categorize, collate, summarize, and aggregate data. You also need the means to seamlessly distribute to release value. This book shows how Snowflake provides all these things and how to use them to your advantage.
The book helps you succeed by delivering faster than you can deliver with legacy products and techniques. You will learn how to leverage what you already know, and what you don't, all applied in a Snowflake Data Cloud context. After reading this book, you will discover and embrace the future where the Data Cloud is central. You will be able to position your organization to take advantage by identifying, adopting, and preparing your tooling for the coming wave of opportunity around sharing and monetizing valuable, corporate data.

What You Will Learn

• Understand why Data Cloud is important to the 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
  

Who This Book Is For

Solution architects seeking implementation patterns to integrate with a Data Cloud; data warehouse developers looking for tips, tools, and techniques to rapidly deliver data pipelines; sales managers who want to monetize their datasets and understand the opportunities that Data Cloud presents; and anyone who wishes to unlock value contained within their data silos

運用最佳實踐來實施Snowflake Data Cloud，從業界領先的基於雲端的數據倉儲平台中獲得可擴展性和低成本的好處。本書提供了詳細的操作說明，並假設讀者對Snowflake的核心概念和原則有所了解。這是一本以項目為導向的書籍，以實踐為基礎，重點介紹如何設計、開發和實施具有安全性的數據雲。通過實例演練，您將培養技能、知識和專業知識，並通過整合其他Snowflake功能、工具和技術來擴展您的能力。您的Snowflake Data Cloud將符合目標、可擴展且處於Direct Share、Data Exchange和Snowflake Marketplace的前沿。

《建立Snowflake Data Cloud》幫助您將組織轉變為從數據中實現價值的方式。隨著數據量、速度和多樣性以指數級增長，數字經濟開始崛起，您需要工具和技術來快速對數據進行分類、整理、總結和聚合。您還需要手段來無縫分發以釋放價值。本書展示了Snowflake如何提供所有這些功能，以及如何利用它們為您帶來好處。

本書通過提供比傳統產品和技術更快的交付速度來幫助您取得成功。您將學習如何在Snowflake Data Cloud的背景下運用您已經掌握的知識和未知的知識。閱讀本書後，您將發現並接受數據雲是核心的未來。您將能夠定位您的組織以利用即將到來的機會浪潮，識別、採用和準備您的工具，以分享和實現價值豐厚的企業數據。

您將學到什麼
- 瞭解數據雲對組織成功的重要性
- 提升技能並採用Snowflake，充分利用雲平台的好處
- 闡述Snowflake Marketplace並識別實現數據價值的機會
- 識別加速與數據雲集成的工具和技術
- 通過監控和控制對數據集的訪問來管理數據消耗
- 開發數據加載和轉換能力，以供未來項目使用

本書適合對象
- 解決方案架構師，尋求與數據雲集成的實施模式
- 數據倉儲開發人員，尋找快速交付數據管道的技巧、工具和技術
- 銷售經理，希望將數據集價值實現並了解數據雲帶來的機遇
- 希望釋放數據孤島中價值的任何人

​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.

Andrew Carruthers 是倫敦證券交易所集團(Snowflake Corporate Data Cloud)的總監。該集團包括兩個Snowflake帳戶，支援數據湖的數據輸入和分析中心，為超過7,000名終端用戶提供服務。他還負責領導Enablement中心，開發工具、最佳實踐和培訓，以及Snowflake Landing Zone，提供符合內部標準和最佳實踐的Snowflake帳戶。