Embrace Snowflake with In-Database Query

Doug BordonaroField CTO, ThoughtSpot

Siva SingaramDirector of Product Management

Harsha Kapre

Product ManagementPartner Ecosystem

Priya Mysore

BI/Analytics Program Manager

• Introduction

• ThoughtSpot @ Cisco

• Snowflake Overview

• ThoughtSpot + Snowflake: Better Together

• Demo

Agenda

Search has transformed our lives and expectations

Instant Answers for All

Why People Love ThoughtSpot

Incredibly Easy to UseAnyone can use search to build reportsand dashboards in seconds

No More WaitingGet answers instantly without relying on data analysts for every report request

Shared Company-wide MetricsGet everyone in the company looking at one single version of the truth

The data management market is changing

Traditional Enterprise Data Warehouse

Data Lakes Modern Cloud Data Warehouse

• We’d love to use ThoughtSpot with all our data

• Data lakes aren’t a solution for everything

• Analytic cloud databases give the best of both worlds

− Scalability of performance and price

− Availability for ad-hoc analytics

− Ease of use

• We’ve invested in Snowflake, how do we leverage that investment?

What we hear from customers

Cisco CPS ThoughtSpot Introduction and Why Embrace

Priya MysoreBI/Analytics Program Manager

Who are we and What do we do?CPS Data Analytics and Business Intelligence

Provide enterprise class Business Insights, Solutions, and Decision Support Services for CPS

Provide a trusted data platform to ensure Single Source of Truth.

Deliver operational and analytical Reports, Dashboards, with self

service Business Insights.

Build custom Enterprise Applications to support and

enhance business needs

TeradataHadoop

Snowflake

OBIEEBusiness Objects

Tableau

.

.NetAngular JS

Java

Motivation for Change

Dashboard / Report backlog

Dashboard Proliferation

Multiple data platforms

Slower Performance

(30-45 secs/click)

Scalability

Realized Benefits

ThoughtSpot Pilot

Large Datasets

• > 5 million cases

Speed

• Sub second to a few seconds response times on all queries

• Time to insights down from a week to hours

Search

• Searching as easy as using Google/Amazon

• Conversational analytics – follows the analysts train of thought

Self Service

• 4-5 process owners have created their own pinboards to manage their processes

• Fully collaborative –ability to share insights which remain refreshed

Why ThoughtSpot Embrace ?

Leverage existing data platform in Snowflake

Quick Deployment Governance

• Live, In-Database Query

• Flexibility to ingest data as needed

• Eliminates ETL pipelines to be built

• Opens up new use cases to explore and get immediate insights

• Centralized data model and governance within Snowflake

• Part of the beta testing program of EMBRACE

• Running queries against Snowflake Production

• Performance of answers and pinboards within 2-3 seconds

What Next?

Search & AI

Secure & Trusted

Data Source

Automated Insights

Fast & Reliable

Self Service

CPSCitizen Data

Science Organization

Snowflake

Harsha KapreProduct Management, Partner Ecosystem

Our StorySQL data warehouse built for the cloud

Founded 2012by industryveterans

Over 3,000active customers

Over $950M in venture funding from

leading investors

First customers 2014, general availability 2015

Gartner andForrester “Leader”

What We See

Rapidlyexpanding data

ORGANIZATIONS ARE STRUGGLING

TO SUPPORT THEIR ANALYTICS NEEDS

Diverse toolsand applications

New users and use cases

This Can’t Be Fixed With Traditional Architecture

Shared-diskShared storageSingle cluster

Shared-nothingDecentralized, local

storageSingle cluster

Centralized StorageAutomatically grows without adding nodes. Never run out of space.

Instant Compute Scaling Scale up/down depending on the business needs right now or turn off when not in use.

Workload IsolationETL, reporting, data science, and applications all running at the same time without performance impact.

Snowflake: A Brand New Architecture (Multi-cluster, Shared Data)

Key Snowflake Benefits

Complete SQL Database

Zero Management

All of Your Data

All of Your Users

Pay Only for What You Use

Live DataSharing

ThoughtSpot: Search & AI-driven Analytics for Snowflake

Connect directly to Snowflake in a few clicks

Use Search & AI to uncover insights on Snowflake’s cloud-data warehouse

Live, in-database query provides most up-to-date answers

Centralize data management and governance in Snowflake

How Embrace works with Snowflake?

Create direct connection to Snowflake

Select & preview columns from each table

Import table relationships and joins automatically

Search to get granular insights from Snowflake

Thank You