Platforms for storing, processing, and managing structured and unstructured data, including data warehouses, lakehouses, and data pipelines.
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Database and spreadsheet platform by Airtable for organizing operations data in flexible grid views.
Open data integration platform by C3 AI unifying COVID-19 datasets from multiple public sources.
Managed relational database service by Google Cloud supporting PostgreSQL and MySQL workloads.
Customer data platform by Salesforce for unifying and activating first-party data across channels.
Data lakehouse platform by Databricks for unified analytics, ML, and data engineering at scale.
Unified lakehouse platform for data engineering, analytics, and AI
Managed data pipeline service by Google Cloud for large-scale batch and streaming data processing.
Managed NoSQL key-value database by AWS for high-throughput, low-latency data storage applications.
External data lake infrastructure for storing and querying large-scale analytics datasets.
NoSQL document database by Google Cloud for real-time data syncing in mobile and web applications.
Serverless enterprise data warehouse for analytics
Managed streaming data pipeline service by Google for processing large-scale batch and real-time data.
Data lakehouse platform by IBM watsonx for unified data storage and analytics across hybrid environments.
Internal data storage infrastructure for aggregating and querying large volumes of enterprise data.
Distributed event streaming platform by Apache and Confluent for high-throughput real-time data pipelines.
Messaging and event ingestion service by Google Cloud for real-time data streaming between services.
Cloud data warehouse by Snowflake for storing, querying, and sharing structured and semi-structured data.
Built-in AI and ML capabilities within the Snowflake Data Cloud
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Use Cases (16)
Fifth Dimension, a global AI platform for commercial real estate asset managers and owner-operators, built a multi-model workflow on Google Cloud using Gemini for large-scale document ingestion and Claude for high-precision reasoning. The platform compressed investment memo drafting from days or weeks to just 30 minutes and achieved 99.9% reliability for multi-hour workflows, driving deals with top-10 U.S. asset managers.
Etsy, the global marketplace for handcrafted and vintage goods, serves nearly 90 million buyers across more than 130 million listings from 5 million sellers. Using Vertex AI, BigQuery, Dataflow, and Gemini, the company built a personalized search and discovery platform it calls “algotorial curation” — increasing listings per theme by 80x, driving a 5% lift in SEO-driven visits, and delivering a 3% conversion improvement for sellers.
Class Editori, a leading Italian media company specializing in finance, fashion, and lifestyle with 40 years of content archives, partnered with Softlab to build MFGPT on Google Cloud — one of Italy’s first generative AI agents in the media industry. The system unified four decades of journalistic archives and real-time financial data into BigQuery, powered by Gemini and Vertex AI, converting trial users into paid subscribers and securing B2B enterprise agreements with major financial institutions.
Pacers Sports & Entertainment (PS&E) struggled to connect fan data spread across 30 disconnected platforms, making personalized engagement nearly impossible. By deploying Salesforce Data 360, Marketing Cloud, and Agentforce, PS&E unified its entire fan data ecosystem into a single golden record. The organization is now positioned to deliver hyper-personalized experiences across the Fever, Pacers, and all PS&E properties.
FedEx unified siloed sales, shipping, and web data using Salesforce Data 360 to act on customer signals in real time. By automating dormant account reactivation and personalizing outreach at scale, FedEx achieved over 2,000% ROI and improved customer activation rates by 13%. The platform now powers more than one billion personalized emails annually.
Fifth Dimension, a UK-based AI analytics company serving the real estate industry, migrated to Google Cloud to overcome critical infrastructure bottlenecks. By adopting Vertex AI, Cloud Run, and serverless architecture, the company achieved 50x processing scalability, 6x revenue growth, and a 30% reduction in infrastructure costs — all within a rapid growth trajectory from founding in 2023 to global scale by 2025.
Vanguard partnered with Pinecone to build Agent Assist, an internal RAG-powered AI chat tool that helps customer support representatives find answers faster and more accurately. By replacing keyword-based search with hybrid vector retrieval, Vanguard achieved 12% more accurate search results and meaningfully reduced call times — even during high-demand periods like tax season.
DynamoDBChipper Cash, a fintech serving over five million customers across Africa, deployed a Pinecone-powered facial similarity search system to detect and block fraudulent duplicate sign-ups in real time. The solution slashed identity verification latency from up to 20 minutes down to under 2 seconds, and reduced fraudulent sign-ups by 10x across all markets.
Bordr, an online service helping foreigners obtain Portuguese tax IDs, used n8n to automate its entire order management workflow — from document generation to customer email updates. By replacing manual processes with multi-step automated pipelines, the two-person team scaled to a six-figure business within months without sacrificing customer service quality.
Lenovo's Solutions and Services Group deployed ServiceNow Technology Provider Service Management and generative AI to unify its global Device-as-a-Service operations across 400+ enterprise customers. The platform streamlined onboarding, integrated third-party tools, and enabled self-service portals — delivering measurable gains in customer satisfaction and retention within a single year.
VideoAmp consolidated its entire data warehouse onto Snowflake, achieving 90% cost reduction, 10x performance improvement, and cutting data backfilling from 5 days to 13 hours.
Penske Logistics migrated to Snowflake and leveraged Cortex AI to build a gen AI summarization model in under 15 days, generating company-wide BI reports spanning 5 years in just 15 minutes.
Super-Pharm leveraged Google Vertex AI for ML-powered demand forecasting, improving inventory accuracy from 50% to 90% and making forecasting 10x more efficient.
Shopify built Sidekick, an AI commerce assistant powered by Claude Sonnet on Google Vertex AI, enabling millions of merchants to reach their first sale in days instead of weeks.
UFC partnered with IBM to build the UFC Insights Engine using IBM watsonx Orchestrate, tripling insight volume while reducing query generation time by 40% across 40+ annual live events for 700 million fans worldwide.
Scuderia Ferrari HP partnered with IBM Consulting to reimagine their mobile fan app using IBM watsonx AI, delivering AI-generated race summaries, personalized content, and interactive features that doubled daily active users and increased in-app engagement by 35%.