Cheat Sheet

About dbt

• dbt is the standard for transforming data with the rigor of code inside Snowflake

• dbt Platform is a fully-managed version of dbt along with proprietary offerings letting data engineering and analyst teams scale via self service , govern and optimize access to data on Snowflake

  • AI apps built with Semantic Layer and Cortex with high fidelity and hallucination-free results

  • Anyone can find data in Snowflake fast -  dbt Catalog is a built-in catalog with lineage

  • Unlock wall-2-wall deployments - dbt Mesh unifies data across domains

Data Trust is AI Trust

• Increased Trust in the Data | Logging & Alerting automatically built in and column-level lineage to more deeply understand transformations.

• Manage chaos and complexity | All transformations are off laptops, fully managed and more performant than ever.

Build More Data Products Faster

• Develop & Deploy Efficiently | Job orchestration, reuse of production assets, automated version control and a browser development experience.

• Follows analytics engineering best practices | reusable code with built in testing and documentation allowing more people to develop.

Why dbt Platform (and why it matters to you)

• Why dbt? Every $1 spent on dbt = $1-$3 in Snowflake consumption— Over 50,000 organizations use dbt, and 2000+ use dbt Platform on Snowflake (huge upside opportunity). 40% of Snowpark usage is from dbt.

• Why dbt Platform? Time to go live from 9 to 4 months— “dbt Platform helps us deliver upon our original use case quicker so that new use cases may be deployed faster and with more success.” - Brian Maastricht

• Why now? Optimized and Governed Access to data— Production assets can be reused, orchestrated, and trusted leading to higher trust and faster data product creation.

Case Study: Reforge

• Supported 3x team growth with a scalable data stack on Snowflake + dbt Platform

• Saved 18 hours a week — with queries that took hours and were reduced to minutes

Case Study: JetBlue

• Improved data uptime from 65% to 99.9% with a migration to Snowflake + dbt Platform

• Just 3 months to migrate 26 data sources + 1200 models

• Saw $0 increase in total cost of ownership

Positioning dbt Platform based on Customer Scale and Maturity

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