The Advantages of Moving to Snowflake
Transitioning to Snowflake as a data warehousing solution presents numerous advantages for businesses aiming to optimise their data management strategies. One of the primary benefits is its remarkable scalability. Snowflake’s architecture enables companies to effortlessly adjust their data storage and computing resources according to their changing needs. Flexibility ensures that organisations can handle varying workloads without incurring unnecessary costs, thus promoting efficient budget management.
Snowflake offers significant performance improvements over traditional data platforms. The unique architecture decouples storage from compute, allowing organisations to scale these resources independently. Separation enables businesses to run multiple queries without interference and enhances processing speeds, particularly for complex data analysis tasks. Users experience reduced wait times, leading to improved productivity and quicker decision-making capabilities.
The cost-effectiveness of Snowflake is a critical aspect that appeals to many organisations. The platform operates on a pay-per-use model, meaning businesses only pay for the resources they actually consume. This model helps avoid the high fixed costs often associated with maintaining physical data centers. transitioning to Snowflake, companies can significantly lower expenses related to computing and storage, making it a financially advantageous choice for data support.
Snowflake supports diverse data types and allows seamless integration with a variety of data sources, enhancing organisations’ ability to perform comprehensive data analysis. Its user-friendly interface and robust query performance facilitate easy data access, enabling teams to derive valuable insights efficiently. Collectively, these advantages highlight why many companies are moving to Snowflake for a modern, cost-effective data warehousing solution.
Case Studies: Success Stories with LEIT DATA and Snowflake
LEIT DATA has played a pivotal role in transforming the data infrastructure of numerous clients by facilitating their migration to Snowflake, a cloud-based data platform renowned for its scalability and cost-effectiveness. This section delves into an overview of several case studies that highlight the challenges faced by these organisations, the migration process implemented by LEIT DATA, and the significant benefits realised afterward.
🏦 Global Financial Services
A global financial institution needed to modernise its cloud data platform to support regulatory compliance, cross-department reporting and AI/ML enablement. We implemented FinOps governance, improved self-service BI, and accelerated data delivery.
🎯 Outcomes:
• Reduced batch processing times
• 33% lower OPEX through architectural simplification
• Improved time-to-market and data quality
💳 Global Payments Platform
Facing a failing data platform, a large fintech firm partnered with us to recover speed and scalability. We enabled faster delivery of data products, integrated template-driven automation, and built a robust DataOps framework.
🎯 Outcomes:
• 2.5× faster execution
• 7× speed-to-market improvement
• Significant cost savings for data product teams
🛒 FTSE 100 Retailer
A top-tier retailer engaged LEIT DATA to design and execute a scalable Snowflake based platform. We delivered FinOps tooling, DataOps pipelines and a clear architectural roadmap.
🎯 Outcomes:
• 3× operational efficiency gains
• 7× improvement in processing speed
• Lower cost of ownership for analytics infrastructure
🎧 Music Licensing & Streaming
From rights management to real-time analytics, we supported two global media and streaming companies with Snowflake migrations. These projects focused on:
• Migrating legacy systems to cloud
• Enabling GDPR-compliant data access
• Automating royalty and usage insights
🎯 Outcomes:
• Faster analytics generation
• Improved cost transparency
• Reduced time-to-insight
⚡ Energy, Insurance & Marketplace Platforms
We supported a UK energy provider, a life insurance disruptor and a global B2B marketplace in their Snowflake transformation journeys. Common themes included:
• Removing data silos
• Enabling role-based access control (RBAC/ABAC)
• Simplifying the architecture for growth
🎯 Outcomes:
• Significant cost visibility improvements
• Best-practice data governance models
• Higher user adoption across teams
What Makes the Difference?
By applying our accelerators FinOps, Metadata Tagging, CI/CD and AI Enablement we help clients move fast and scale with confidence. Whether it’s transforming raw data into insights or ensuring every compute cycle counts, our approach is value-led and Snowflake-optimised.
🔹 Interested in reducing your data costs?
Contact us at: 0800 246 1336 or email: info@leit.ltd
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