I would turn this on it’s head and say that most companies do need one or the other.
My first premise is that most companies will have a BI or Data and Analytics problem, whether it’s analysing their spend, revenue, operations, customer churn or something more interesting.
At that point, having an industry standard, fully managed, fully elastic and resilient platform with consumption based pricing sounds pretty appealing.
Yes I can run and administer a warehouse on EC2, but the total cost of manpower and servers with full resilience is going to be high, especially as you’ll have to add in analytics tools, ETL tools etc which Snowflake or Databricks might have included.
I’m a huge believer in both Snowflake and Databricks. Snowflake for BI and Databricks for anything more funky. The technology is on point and the business case stacks up for the most part.
My first premise is that most companies will have a BI or Data and Analytics problem, whether it’s analysing their spend, revenue, operations, customer churn or something more interesting.
At that point, having an industry standard, fully managed, fully elastic and resilient platform with consumption based pricing sounds pretty appealing.
Yes I can run and administer a warehouse on EC2, but the total cost of manpower and servers with full resilience is going to be high, especially as you’ll have to add in analytics tools, ETL tools etc which Snowflake or Databricks might have included.
I’m a huge believer in both Snowflake and Databricks. Snowflake for BI and Databricks for anything more funky. The technology is on point and the business case stacks up for the most part.