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November 27, 2019

Snowflake Announces Japan Office Opening

SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 27, 2019  Snowflake,  the data warehouse built for the cloud, today announced the opening of its new Tokyo, Japan office. The office will be located at Shibuya Scramble Square, Shibuya City, Tokyo 150-0001, as of December 1, 2019 under the leadership of Hidetoshi Tojo, Snowflake Japan Managing Director.

Snowflake is the data warehouse built for the cloud, with nearly $1B in venture capital and a post-money valuation of $3.9B. Snowflake is headquartered in San Mateo, California and has global offices in New York, London, Sydney, Singapore, and more. The cloud-built data warehouse serves over 2,500 active global customers like Rakuten, Adobe, ASICS, and Sony Pictures Entertainment, among others. Snowflake was deemed the #1 Top Startup by LinkedIn, is included on a number of Best Place to Work lists,  and was listed as #2 on the Forbes Cloud 100 in 2019, with a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 74, 3.5 times the industry average for technology.

Snowflake currently delivers its data-warehouse-as-a-service to organizations across industries like healthcare, finance, technology, and media/advertising. Key benefits of Snowflake include a unique architecture that separates compute and storage, which enables any number of concurrent users to achieve real-time data insights necessary for modern, data-driven business decisions.

Analysts project that from 2018 to 2023, the public cloud services market in Japan will grow nearly 20.4% annually1, and Snowflake is poised to support the growing need for a modern, cloud-built data platform. Snowflake hopes to accelerate its global impact by engaging with new customers in the region and extending ecosystem partnerships to include local-based companies.

Hidetoshi Tojo, Snowflake Japan’s Managing Director said, “Snowflake is a customer-centric company and our goal is to expand availability to worldwide to enable every organization to be a data leader. Organizations experience siloed data warehouses and data lakes built in different parts of the organization, which causes a struggle for decision-makers to get the insights they need from their data in a timely manner. With Snowflake, organizations have a single-source of truth with their data, accessible in real-time for data-driven decision making.”

Tojo continued, “Our Japan office opening is the first step towards ingratiating ourselves in this unique market and its needs, and we’re excited to work with organizations in the region. Snowflake will optimize the way that Japanese companies utilize data for business.”

Learn more about Snowflake.

About Snowflake Inc.

Snowflake is the data warehouse built for the cloud, enabling the data-driven enterprise with instant elasticity, secure data sharing and per-second pricing, across multiple clouds. Snowflake combines the power of data warehousing, the flexibility of big data platforms and the elasticity of the cloud at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. Snowflake: Your data, no limits. Find out more at snowflake.com.


Source: Snowflake 

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