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# Data migration best practices for Snowflake deliver 10X faster insights

**URL:** https://www.sigmoid.com/case-studies/data-migration-best-practices-for-snowflake-deliver-10x-faster-insights/
Date: 2023-02-14
Author: indrajeet Desai
Post Type: page
Summary: Data migration from on prem systems to Snowflake reduces time to insights by 10X Sigmoid optimized Snowflake's performance by implementing best practices...Read More...
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# Data migration from on prem systems to Snowflake reduces time to insights by 10X

				Sigmoid optimized Snowflake's performance by implementing best practices for data migration, resulting in a 10X improvement in the efficiency of data pipelines.

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						Sigmoid optimized Snowflake's performance by implementing best practices for data migration, resulting in a 10X improvement in the efficiency of data pipelines.

### Business Challenge

						The customer provides financial technology services to banks, credit unions, securities brokers, mortgage, insurance, leasing, and financing organizations, as well as retailers. They were facing challenges with their legacy infrastructure on Hadoop in system administration, security, and disaster recovery. They wanted to modernize the current infrastructure by migrating to Snowflake and better manage merchants' transactional data including funds, lending, repayment, and retrieval among others.

### Sigmoid Solution

						Sigmoid developed the architectural guidelines derived from proven methodology for managing data on Snowflake. Best practices were implemented on [data ingestion to Snowflake](/ebooks-whitepapers/snowflake-implementation/), data processing using suitable data warehouses, correct use of transient or temporary tables, and modularizing queries to improve the performance of data pipelines. By splitting the execution environment for the cloud data warehouse, it was possible to create better experiences for users such as faster query resolution times.

							[Download case study](#case-study-download)

### Business Impact

									The customer was able to significantly improve the performance of their data pipelines, with gains of up to 10X. Data management best practices on Snowflake led to real-time query resolution by reducing the time taken to process queries from 7 seconds to 2 milliseconds. Additionally, there were cost savings in running queries related to end-of-the-day merchant data reconciliation. 

														![improvement in data pipelines icon](/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/data-size-per-month.png)

															10X

															improvement in data pipelines’ performance

														![query resolution icon](/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/reduction-in-irrelevant-alerts.png)

															Real-time

															query resolution

														![cost reduction icon](/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Group-32817.png)

															90%

															cost reduction in running complex analytical queries

## Relevant Case Studies

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#### [Enabling Data Standardization and Error-free Reporting to Track Data Anomalies for Operational Efficiency](/case-studies/automated-global-bi-reporting/)

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#### [Faster analysis on 250TB+ data and creation of a SSOT](/case-studies/single-source-of-truth-creation/)

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#### [Centralized Data Lake for Faster Analytics and Reporting](/case-studies/centralized-data-lake-for-faster-analytics-and-reporting/)

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