4 Things That Make Tellius and Snowflake Great Together

Christopher Reuter
4 min readNov 3, 2020

More than ever, CIOs are chartered with unlocking insights into their data at scale. To support this mission, thousands of organizations are making the move to Snowflake — the cloud data platform. Technology leaders understand that rapidly expanding data volumes combined with the growth of user-driven analytics requires a scalable, flexible data foundation on the cloud like Snowflake.

We’re partners with Snowflake because they provide a great platform that unifies data and provides the world’s easiest access to that data, all while being cost effective for their customers. Our goal is to go the last mile and extend access to that Snowflake data to business users who today are underserved by analytics.

Finding insights for most enterprises is a complex, difficult endeavor due to the legacy data environment built for on-premise fixed infrastructure, BI tools based on aggregates & visual analysis, and a working environment where technical collaboration takes days. Business users are demanding self-service analytics that can help them answer the questions they have quickly.

Organizations around the world are embracing Tellius Decision Intelligence in collaboration with Snowflake in order to augment their analytics environment and provide a tool that is built for the business user. Tellius allows anyone to traverse the entire analytical process with a true natural language interface, supercharging your analytics with Guided Insights. From ‘what’ happened to ‘why’ key metrics changed and ‘how’ to move forward, Tellius uses machine learning and automated statistical analysis to provide the right piece of information at the right time.

What →Why →How powered by Snowflake + Tellius

Tellius unlocks the power of your Snowflake data with 4 powerful integrations:

1. Live Query

One major goal for data teams is the ability to leave their data where it is, as much as possible. Tellius leverages Snowflake’s cloud data platform, allowing for in-database queries without moving data out of Snowflake.

Tellius decision intelligence unlocks the value of Snowflake’s cloud data platform by applying AI to live data, finding insights where a user cannot using manual analysis.

This also means that answers to questions are always up-to-date: move at the speed of your data without waiting for reports to update or dashboards to repopulate.

Natural Language Question in Tellius
That same question processed in-database in Snowflake

2. Match Snowflake Scalability and Flexibility

Tellius is the only platform that can serve up Guided Insights with the same level of scalability and flexibility of Snowflake. Our architecture means that we can automatically grow on-demand based upon usage, and customers only pay for what they use!

Compare this to your current BI and search deployments. You’re either paying for fixed servers that are greater than your peak demand, or performance suffers because you’re undersized and can’t scale on-demand.

Cloud based architecture is poorly utilized without an automated, on-demand scaling architecture — something that Tellius and Snowflake have in common.

3. Users Can Prepare Their Own Data

One drawback of traditional analytics tools is that they require significant data preparation from data engineers using complex ELT tools, before any work can be done.

Using Snowflake alone means that users need to learn SQL, and a trusted process must be put in place to allow users to make changes to the golden record.

Tellius features an intuitive, point and click user interface for connecting & preparing data sources. No SQL knowledge required — meaning that the business user can create calculated columns, ratios, flags and more on their own, without having to wait for a data team to create a field.

Data prep in action

4. Write to Snowflake

The power of data-driven decision making doesn’t lie only in descriptive analytics — it means applying historical analytics and key insights to create frameworks for impacting change.

Our decision intelligence tool enables users to find what, why and most importantly how to impact change. Tellius AutoML can create predictive models based on the latest machine learning techniques, allowing users to take action.

Our writeback capability means that users have the ability — if the enterprise allows them — to write their transformed data or results of predictive models back to Snowflake. This unlocks even more value, as predictions are now able to be accessed by any other tool connected to Snowflake.

Writeback to Snowflake in a single click

So come join us

The water is warmer, the sky is a deeper shade of blue, and the business users are happy — in the world of decision intelligence powered by Snowflake and Tellius.

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