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In this episode, Bob discusses Snowflake’s move into the supply chain space through its partnership with Blue Yonder.
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Highlights
00:23 — Snowflake is jumping on the supply chain train by working with Blue Yonder to combine their applications. CEO Frank Slootman suggests that the supply chain problem is a data problem, which is what this partnership aims to address.
01:05 — Slootman referred to this as a “fantastic historical opportunity.” He also noted that Blue Yonder re-platforming on Snowflake will create an optimized opportunity to bring the applications together with data.
01:30 — Further, Slootman has said that all the entities in a supply chain will be Snowflake accounts. It represents an incredibly high volume of opportunity with how vital and strategic the supply chain is to all parts of the economy, businesses, and personal lives.
02:11 — “We’re at a point now where the business challenges in the world are calling for the big technology vendors to come together and form alliances and partnerships in ways we haven’t seen before.” Bob says this partnership is a perfect example of that.
02:40 — Bob also thinks this partnership “plays perfectly into the culture of Snowflake.”
03:10 — Since Snowflake has achieved much in the data cloud space, Slootman is now looking at the supply chain as another opportunity in the applications space with a “totally new approach” to “match up with the new demands on a data-driven digital economy.”
03:41 — While supply chains have always been important, they have now become vital to every part of the global economy. Bob describes it as “a perfect opportunity for Snowflake.”
