Research Note: Snowflake BUILD 2025 Announcements
At its recent BUILD 2025 event, Snowflake unveiled a substantial array of platform updates centered on three core themes: compute performance optimization, data interoperability across heterogeneous environments, and operational automation.
The offerings address persistent enterprise challenges around data fragmentation, manual infrastructure management, and the operational overhead of supporting both transactional and analytical workloads on unified platforms.
Research Note: Snowflake’s Crunchy Data Acquisition
At its annual Snowflake Summit in San Francisco, Snowflake announced its intent to acquire Crunchy Data for approximately $250 million. The deal brings enterprise-grade PostgreSQL capabilities into Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud through a new offering called Snowflake Postgres. This acquisition addresses a critical gap in Snowflake’s platform, while intensifying competition with Databricks for dominance in AI infrastructure.