KNIME announced a strategic partnership with Snowflake,
the Data Cloud company, to democratize access to data analytics across all
roles and departments.
Understanding
data is critical for creating business value. With the global data analytics
market worth more than $200 billion, it's necessary for as many people as
possible across roles, departments and industries to have access to analytics
in their daily jobs for overall better productivity.
"Many of
our customers rely on Snowflake to power virtually any data workload at scale,
while utilizing KNIME to gain value from that data," said Paul Treichler, VP of
global partnerships at KNIME.
Tarik
Dwiek, Snowflake's head of technology partnerships, added, "In partnership with
KNIME, we look to enrich the Snowflake ecosystem with tools that can enable an
even greater share of enterprises and both technical and non-technical users of
data."
The joint
offering means that users can access and manipulate data in Snowflake with a
low-/no-code platform at no cost. KNIME Analytics Platform
is a fully featured analytics workflow "designer" that can be used in
conjunction with Snowflake's Data
Cloud to perform a broad range of analytics tasks from data prep to data
science. Users can leverage the drag-and-drop interface to prepare and explore
data, rapidly build analytical models, create data apps, and present results in
BI tools such as Tableau or Power BI.
KNIME is
flexible and extensible, giving data experts the freedom to work in their
preferred environment. Users can build sophisticated analytic models in its
low-code/no-code environment or script custom algorithms in a language of their
choice with built-in integrations with R, Python, Java and more.
KNIME has
a vibrant open source community of users who share their knowledge and
expertise in specialized forums. Technical and non-technical teams can make use
of this community to leverage pre-built components and workflows to accelerate
their time to value and also upskill themselves through comprehensive free
training and learning content available from KNIME. Upskilling non-technical
teams to use data science and analytics leaves technical teams with greater
bandwidth and freedom to concentrate on more complex tasks.
Across
industries, enterprises can also take advantage of KNIME's commercial offering.
KNIME Server offers a suite of
features for automation, governance, production deployment and MLOps. Snowflake
working in concert with KNIME Server enables organizations to move beyond pilot
projects and build enterprise-scale data solutions that are compliant and
accessible across the organization. Lastly, KNIME extends the deployment
flexibility of Snowflake to the analytics layer, allowing enterprises to
utilize the right resources for a given workload or scenario.
"We are
excited about the partnership between Snowflake and KNIME," said Ryan
Bosshart, CEO of phData, the Snowflake 2021 RSI Partner of the Year and KNIME
Elite Partner. "We've been building with both Snowflake and KNIME because we
believe in platforms and technology that make it easier for people to build
data products, in both business and technical roles. I'm excited to see what
new use cases are possible with this combination."