PTA announces partnership with data warehouse manufacturer Snowflake
The Mannheim-based software and consulting company PTA has announced a partnership with the American software manufacturer Snowflake, which is known for its cloud-based data warehouse of the same name. The partners want to deliver joint added value for their customers in the future. With its long tradition, PTA complements its offering with additional expertise in the future technology of a purely cloud-based data warehouse. PTA’s experience with Snowflake to date has been promising and the agreed partnership is a logical consequence. In migrations and further developments, joint customers benefit from PTA Consultants’ extensive know-how in modeling and implementing classic database solutions combined with Snowflake’s professional expertise and technical expertise in the cloud. The processing and evaluation of large volumes of data at high speed and acceptable costs form the basis for the use of real-time applications, data science analyses and learning AI systems. The partners want to open up new opportunities for their customers by making comprehensive use of the data brought together on one platform with modern technologies.
About Snowflake
Snowflake is the first data warehouse developed from the ground up for the cloud, a Data-Warehouse-as-a-Service. It offers users from all industries a system with the flexibility of a big data platform and the elasticity of the cloud. Snowflake requires almost no administration and can be used at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. Snowflake provides a central data repository for structured and semi-structured data, in which data can also be shared between different Snowflake users. Snowflake’s software architecture has taken the highest security requirements into account right from the start. Snowflake is a very high-performance system. The almost unlimited scalability and parallelism on any number of computing clusters, combined with low basic costs, make Snowflake a technologically and economically attractive offering on the market.
PTA and Snowflake complement each other
“We advise our customers on their future digital business and help them implement it with technologies such as real-time reporting, artificial intelligence, big data and business intelligence,” explains Dr. Tim Walleyo, Managing Director of PTA. “The key raw material for these approaches is processed and up-to-date data, which can be perfectly collected and processed with Snowflake’s data warehouse. The partnership with Snowflake puts us in a position to offer our customers data-driven use cases from a single source.” The competencies of Snowflake and PTA complement each other: While Snowflake develops one of the most advanced data warehouse systems on the market, PTA concentrates on consulting and project implementation. Snowflake’s consistent focus on the cloud matches that of PTA and is particularly attractive for medium-sized customers. They benefit from the economies of scale of large cloud infrastructures that were previously only available to large companies. “Cloud architectures reduce the vertical integration of IT, democratize access to technology and help to reduce costs,” emphasizes Lukasz Chlipala (Manager Partners & Alliances DACH + EE). “With PTA, we have gained a partner that wants to tap into this potential for its customers and is pursuing a long-term strategy in conjunction with its sister company DATIS.”
A benefit for the partner network
The partnership with Snowflake means an increase in choice for PTA customers. “We are sticking to our principle of independent advice. We want to be able to choose from several good alternatives in each sub-sector. With Snowflake, we have gained another high-quality technology provider,” says an enthusiastic Dr. Andreas Schneider from PTA GmbH.
Cooperation with customers
PTA and Snowflake will present their joint solution offering independently to their existing customers, but are aiming for intensive cooperation projects for selected customers in which they will work closely together on consulting and implementation. Dr. Andreas Schneider says: “Our partnership should offer tangible added value for customers. We want them to be able to receive combined services from PTA and Snowflake, as if from a single source.”
