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Compliance and recovery solutions provider Profectus Group claimed it has unlocked faster insights and analysis leveraging Snowflake’s data platform.

Process Mining and Process Intelligence company Celonis has announced the appointment of Grzegorz (Greg) Czajkowski as Executive Vice President of Engineering.

Snowflake has now released a feature allowing administrators to enforce MFA so users must enroll in it on login. Finally!

Data that is claimed to be from Australian ticketing vendor TEG has been put up for sale on a website, with the poster asking US$30,000 (A$45,032) for the whole lot.

Attackers who used stolen credentials to purloin the data of companies using the services of storage firm Snowflake are demanding between US$300,000 (A$454,040) and US$5 million from about 10 of the 165 companies compromised, a security firm says.

Security firm Mandiant says attackers have used stolen credentials to steal the data of as many as 165 organisations from storage provider Snowflake.

Snowflake the data cloud is now Snowflake the AI data cloud; the cloud data company has announced new innovations and enhancements to Cortex AI to embed AI in more places, making life easier for developers, business analysts, and all users.

Not all data is perfect; if it is missing points for difficult or expensive use cases, synthetic data can fill the void. SAS has announced its SAS Data Maker product, to create such data, is now available on the Snowflake marketplace as a native app.

COMPANY NEWS: Informatica, an enterprise cloud data management leader, today announced at Snowflake’s annual user conference, Snowflake Data Cloud Summit 2024,  Native SQL ELT support for Snowflake Cortex AI Functions, the launch of Enterprise Data Integrator (EDI) and Cloud Data Access Management (CDAM) for Snowflake. These new offerings on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud will enable organisations to develop Generative AI (GenAI) applications, establish streamlined data integration and provide a centralised, policy-based access management, simplifying data governance and ensuring control over data usage.

COMPANY NEWS: Neo4j knowledge graphs, graph algorithms, and ML tools are fully integrated within Snowflake - with zero ETL & requiring no specialist graph expertise

Snowflake has announced a new collaboration with NVIDIA, helping customers and partners rapidly build bespoke AI solutions leveraging NVIDIA AI.

Snowflake has announced it is creating Polaris Catalog, an open standard implementation of Apache Iceberg, and that it will open source it in the next 90 days. This gives enterprises and the Iceberg community new levels of choice, flexibility, and control over their data.

Entertainment giant Live Nation revealed last week it was the victim of a cyber attack that compromised user data. An analyst report - since removed - alleged the breach occurred through the data cloud platform Snowflake, an allegation Snowflake stringently denies.

COMPANY NEWS:  Data Army, a leading Australian data consultancy specialising in advanced data solutions, has announced that it now offers Australia Post’s Movers Statistics data set from its sub-brand The Proptech Cloud, a community which empowers businesses who work with property and real estate information, data and apps.

COMPANY NEWS: Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, today announced Snowflake Arctic, a state-of-the-art large language model (LLM) uniquely designed to be the most open, enterprise-grade LLM on the market. With its unique Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, Arctic delivers top-tier intelligence with unparalleled efficiency at scale. It is optimised for complex enterprise workloads, topping several industry benchmarks across SQL code generation, instruction following, and more. In addition, Snowflake is releasing Arctic’s weights under an Apache 2.0 license and details of the research leading to how it was trained, setting a new openness standard for enterprise AI technology. The Snowflake Arctic LLM is a part of the Snowflake Arctic model family, a family of models built by Snowflake that also include the best practical text-embedding models for retrieval use cases.

COMPANY NEWS:  New data solution supports company’s first Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) public term issuance.

COMPANY NEWS: Snowflake, the data cloud company, today announced the general availability of Snowflake Data Clean Rooms to customers in AWS East, AWS West, and Azure West, revolutionising how enterprises of all sizes can securely share data and collaborate in a privacy-preserving manner to achieve high value business outcomes in the Data Cloud.

It's a common joke that for any new platform that arises someone will port Doom to it. Well, now you can even run Doom on Snowflake, the data cloud.

COMPANY NEWS:  Data Army, a leading Australian data consultancy specialising in advanced data solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with Coalesce, the provider of a trailblazing data transformation solution used by data-driven enterprises worldwide.

GUEST RESEARCH: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used to create chatbots, according to data cloud company Snowflake.