Slalom and Snowflake Introduce Modern Culture of Data

A new solution to unlock the potential of organizations

Kris Karaikudi
Slalom Data & AI
3 min readAug 15, 2022

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If your company has embarked on a data transformation initiative but is struggling to realize its value, you’re not alone. Along the journey to data modernization, it’s common for companies to wrestle with data management, governance, and privacy issues (or struggle to monetize data altogether).

Despite significant technological advancements, many organizations face these types of problems and struggle to convert their investments into data assets. That’s why we’re excited to announce Modern Culture of Data (MCoD) — a new joint solution from Snowflake and Slalom that’s designed to address the common challenges organizations face when embarking on a data modernization journey.

Into the cloud: reimagining data migration

With the rapid evolution of modern data platforms, migrating your current solutions to the cloud is often just the beginning. To unlock the full value of the cloud, you need to modernize your platform and processes.

Snowflake has made great strides in disrupting the age-old paradigm of copying data from one place to another for different workloads. Instead — with services like live Secure Data Sharing, Snowpark, and Streamlit — Snowflake allows workloads to be brought to the data, so all the processing can happen in a single place. Coupled with security features like data encryption, cell-level access controls, and dynamic data masking, governing and protecting your data has never been easier.

What MCoD means for a 21st century business

MCoD not only helps organizations modernize their technical infrastructure, but also takes a holistic view by building an environment of experimentation and innovation where all employees use data to make decisions.

Today’s organizations must put data at the center of their culture to stay competitive — a shift that’s bound to improve efficiencies, create new revenue opportunities, and increase customer engagement.

“Data, tools, and technology are nothing without people,” says Hilary Feier, general manager at Slalom. “We’re excited to release this offering with Snowflake to enable our customers to unlock the value of the cloud and their data using Snowflake’s best-in-class platform and Slalom’s expertise in people transformation.”

MCoD combines Snowflake’s technology offerings with Slalom’s expertise in data strategy, data engineering, and cultural transformation to rapidly deliver value to customers using our PEM framework.

“Our most successful customers take full advantage of the capabilities available in Snowflake in order to transform a variety of processes like data ingestion, data pipelines, and data management,” says Padmaja Vrudhula, vice president of industry vertical workloads at Snowflake. “We are very excited to launch the Modern Culture of Data solution with Slalom, who excels at helping customers become data-driven and modernize their data strategy and platform across the key pillars of technology, process, and people.”

Visit our solution page to learn more about how your organization can create a modern culture of data.

Slalom is a global consulting firm that helps people and organizations dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all. Learn more and reach out today.

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Kris Karaikudi
Slalom Data & AI

Senior Leader experienced in solving complex, cloud implementations with deep expertise in Strategy, Data, and Analytics.