Real-time Analytics News for the Week Ending June 7

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In this week’s real-time analytics news, Snowflake and its partners announced many new offerings at the Snowflake Summit 2025.

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This week’s Snowflake Summit 2025 saw Snowflake and its partners make a bevy of announcements centered on AI, analytics, and data applications. Announcements from Snowflake included:

New agentic AI innovations to bridge the gap between enterprise data and business actions. Items announced include:

  • Snowflake Intelligence (public preview soon), which provides a unified conversational experience to ask natural language questions and instantly uncover actionable insights from both structured tables and unstructured documents.
  • Data Science Agent (private preview soon), an agentic companion that boosts data scientists’ productivity by automating routine ML model development tasks.

Innovations that expand on Snowflake Cortex AI, including SnowConvert AI and Cortex AISQL.

  • SnowConvert AI is an agentic automation solution that accelerates migrations from legacy platforms to Snowflake. With SnowConvert AI, data professionals can modernize their data infrastructure faster, more cost-effectively, and with less manual effort.
  • Cortex AISQL effectively turns every data analyst into an AI engineer. Cortex AISQL is powered by models from Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, OpenAI, and others, coupled with core functionality and performance optimizations already built directly into Snowflake’s SQL engine.

Compute innovations that deliver faster performance, enhanced usability, and stronger price-performance value. Items announced include:

  • Standard Warehouse – Generation 2 (Gen2) (now generally available), an enhanced version of Snowflake’s virtual Standard Warehouse with next-generation hardware and additional enhancements to deliver faster analytics performance and faster analytics performance than Managed Spark.
  • Snowflake Adaptive Compute (now in private preview), a new compute service that lowers the burden of resource management by maximizing efficiency through automatic resource sizing and sharing.

Data movement advances with Snowflake Openflow, a multi-modal data ingestion service that allows users to easily connect to virtually any data source and drive value from any data architecture. The solution enables customers to integrate their entire enterprise data ecosystem with AI models, apps, and data agents directly in Snowflake through pre-built and extensible connectors.

The acquisition of Crunchy Data, which will bring Snowflake Postgres to the AI Data Cloud. That will give developers the full power of Postgres while providing the uncompromising governance, security, and operational standards essential for building and running mission-critical AI applications.

Other related announcements from partners include:

Archive360 announced a new integration with Snowflake, enabling organizations to seamlessly prepare and govern archive data. Through the integration, customers retain complete control over what data is published to Snowflake, enabling compliance, accelerating access to insights, and more.

Ataccama announced the availability of its unified data trust platform, Ataccama ONE, on Snowflake Marketplace. The launch includes an integration with Document AI, enabling enterprises to turn unstructured content into structured data by running models directly within Snowflake.

Atlan unveiled Data Quality Studio, a new module that runs natively on Snowflake Data Metric Functions (DMFs) and elevates Atlan into a unified trust engine. To that end, Atlan’s Data Quality Studio supports the Snowflake AI Data Cloud’s existing data quality features.

CData Software announced the launch of the CData Snowflake Integration Accelerator, a solution designed to simplify and accelerate data integration for Snowflake customers. With this offering, enterprises can significantly reduce integration build times.

Coalesce introduced several platform innovations to accelerate data development and business insight within the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. Key highlights include the debut of Coalesce Copilot (now in private preview), support for Snowflake Semantic Views (private preview), and more.

Incorta announced that Incorta Connect now natively supports Snowflake, enabling organizations to deliver live, detailed data from complex ERP systems into the Snowflake Data Cloud. The new integration accelerates time to value by eliminating the need for traditional ETL pipelines.

LandingAI announced the launch of Agentic Document Extraction (ADE) on Snowflake Marketplace. ADE, a Snowflake Native App, enables enterprise customers to accurately capture intricate details from documents, delivering traceable insights that transform unstructured data into actionable intelligence.

Monte Carlo announced a strategic collaboration with Snowflake to support Snowflake Cortex Agents. By bringing its data + AI observability solution to Cortex Agents, Monte Carlo can help teams scale AI initiatives with reliable, high-quality data.

OneTrust announced the launch of OneTrust Consent Management as a Snowflake Native App on Snowflake Marketplace. The app enables joint customers to enforce the use of consented data in their Snowflake customer data platform implementations, ensuring organizations’ marketing and data and AI programs reflect real-time consumer preferences on how their data will be used.

Qlik announced native support for Snowflake-managed Apache Iceberg tables, enabling fast, open-format data pipelines directly into Snowflake’s environment. It also introduced capabilities that allow customers to leverage Qlik Open Lakehouse in conjunction with Snowflake.

Quest Software announced the integration of its governance and cost optimization capabilities with Snowflake. Joint customers can now trace lineage end-to-end, auto-document impacts, enforce cross-platform policies, and monitor usage spikes.

RelationalAI announced the launch of new product capabilities in its native app for the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. The enhancements allow organizations to bring knowledge and application semantics closer to their data and build applications capable of prescriptive, predictive, graph, and rules-based reasoning.

RudderStack announced the launch of its streaming integration for the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. The new integration combines the power of RudderStack’s infrastructure for customer data collection and governance with Snowflake’s Snowpipe Streaming technology.

Sigma announced two platform innovations in partnership with Snowflake: an integration with Snowflake Semantic Views and support for AI SQL. Together, these advances enable governed semantic exploration and file-based AI-powered analysis directly in Sigma’s intuitive, spreadsheet-like interface.

Striim announced Sherlock AI and Sentinel AI, two governance AI agents powered by Snowflake Cortex AI. The solutions help organizations detect, tag, and protect sensitive upstream data in transit, minimizing exposure risks, preventing compliance penalties, and more.

ThoughtSpot announced a new offering of the ThoughtSpot Agentic Analytics Platform purpose-built for Snowflake. This new ThoughtSpot offering has deep integrations with Snowflake Cortex AI and Snowpark and enables new ways to purchase, deploy, and consume via the Snowflake Marketplace.

Unravel Data announced Health Check, an AI-driven cost and performance optimization Snowflake Native App available on Snowflake Marketplace. Joint customers can now complement Snowflake’s built-in cost and performance optimization capabilities with Health Check.

Real-time analytics news in brief

Apptio, an IBM company, announced the availability of AI TCO & Usage and Hybrid IT TCO Impact, two features designed to empower enterprises to take control of their hybrid and multi-cloud strategy and to ultimately drive increased ROI from AI and hybrid IT investments. With AI TCO & Usage, teams can actively monitor spend and performance across AI initiatives to help drive measurable business value. Hybrid IT TCO Impact provides finance teams with visibility into the financial impacts of migrating applications across hybrid environments.

Cube announced the launch of D3, an agentic analytics platform built on a universal semantic layer. Unlike pre-AI BI tools bolting on new AI capabilities, D3 is agent-native and semantically grounded from the start. The platform includes a suite of intelligent agents to augment Data Analysts’ and Data Engineers’ workflows.

Dynatrace extended the Dynatrace platform with agentic AI capabilities. The core of Dynatrace is a purpose-built foundation for agentic AI, seamlessly unifying observability, security, and business data in a schema-free, indexless data lakehouse. As such, Dynatrace leverages agentic AI to enable enterprises to transition from manual oversight to autonomous, AI-driven workflows.

Fivetran announced that its Connector SDK now supports custom connectors for any data source. With this update, developers can build reliable pipelines for even the most specialized or homegrown systems, eliminating data gaps and making it possible to centralize all of a company’s data in one place.

Immuta announced major updates to its Immuta AI layer. The new capabilities address a key challenge to enterprise AI adoption: slow, manual data access workflows that delay innovation and increase risk. The features help organizations get the right data to the right users—human or machine—at the right time, with appropriate policy enforcement and full auditability.

Kyndryl announced a new global strategic partnership with Databricks to power digital transformation for customers by enabling and delivering AI at scale. By combining Kyndryl’s data and AI services with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, the companies can assist customers with modernizing their IT estate and achieving their business goals in a cost-effective manner.  

Lightbits Labs (Lightbits) published a reference architecture (RA) with AMD for a scalable, highly available, disaggregated, software-defined storage solution that simplifies and accelerates Kubernetes infrastructure deployments. The RA leverages the power of Ceph and Lightbits storage with AMD hardware to ensure an efficient and scalable data platform optimized for general-purpose applications, as well as demanding AI and database applications in Kubernetes environments.

Matia announced the general availability of its enhanced Data Catalog. The catalog enables teams to manage metadata, track lineage, and govern data from a single pane of glass. By embedding catalog functionality directly into its ETL, reverse ETL, and observability layers, Matia eliminates the need for disconnected tools and fragmented workflows.

Mezmo unveiled new solutions to optimize observability costs for Datadog users. Mezmo Telemetry Pipeline now includes insights and optimization workflows for Datadog users, providing SREs and developers with the flexibility needed to profile and reduce large telemetry data volumes. 

Plotly announced Plotly Studio, an AI-native desktop application that automatically generates visual data apps. Plotly Studio requires virtually zero learning curve—users need only two minutes and a dataset to create professional applications that reveal new insights. No prompt hacking, terminal navigation, or Python installation is required.

RavenDB announced the launch of its new feature, bringing native Generative AI (GenAI) capabilities directly into its core database engine. By bringing GenAI to the data layer, RavenDB eliminates the need for middleware, external orchestration, or third-party services. Developers can generate, enrich, classify, and automate content and decisions directly within the database using any LLM they choose.

VDURA announced Version 11.2 of the VDURA Data Platform, a release designed to accelerate AI and HPC workloads through enhanced capabilities, including native Kubernetes CSI support, the introduction of VDURACare, and more. The release also previews V-ScaleFlow, a capability within the platform that enables seamless data movement across high-performance QLC flash and high-capacity disk.

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Salvatore Salamone

About Salvatore Salamone

Salvatore Salamone is a physicist by training who has been writing about science and information technology for more than 30 years. During that time, he has been a senior or executive editor at many industry-leading publications including High Technology, Network World, Byte Magazine, Data Communications, LAN Times, InternetWeek, Bio-IT World, and Lightwave, The Journal of Fiber Optics. He also is the author of three business technology books.

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