
Introduction
Infostrux Foundation Accelerator delivers a data solution that brings instant business value and sets the foundations for fast and agile growth of your data practice on Snowflake.
The solution provides insights into performance and costs across many functional areas out of the box, enabling your team to optimize your bottom line.
As a bonus, the solution provides your IT team with an overview of third-party SaaS application usage, allowing your organization to manage and optimize your SaaS license provisioning and realize non-trivial direct cost savings.
Our Foundation Accelerator is based on the principles of Modern Data Stack. By applying Infostrux’s best-in-class Data Architecture, Data Engineering, Data Modeling, and Data Operations practices, the solution accelerates your growth and minimizes the risk of your transition to Snowflake Data Cloud.
Our proven approach will make the journey as simple as it can be.
Key outcomes

End-to-end data pipeline and data models in Snowflake powering a data analytics dashboard for performance and cost analytics, providing visibility across different platforms

End-to-end data pipeline and data models in Snowflake powering a data analytics dashboard for third-party SaaS application usage analytics, leading to modern software asset management

A solid extensible data platform on Snowflake that follows Snowflake and industry best practices and supports extract-and-load from commonly used or custom data sources, data transformations, leveraging our best-in-class data architecture and data modeling prowess and automation for your data pipelines using proven DataOps principles
Benefits
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Lower the cost and shorten time-to-value by reusing reference architectures and pre-built components
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Lower the risk by following proven methodologies and processes
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Prepare state-of-the-art data platform for future expansion
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Increase the speed of development based on proper foundation and automation support
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Avoid technical debt and enable maintainability by building on a well-designed solution
Activities
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Review & document current and desired future state, including cloud and data architecture
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Launch Snowflake account using Infostrux architecture standards and Snowflake best practices
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Configure security through Snowflake RBAC role hierarchy and automated controls
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Setup infrastructure, data pipeline, and data modeling automation so that the solution can grow with you
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Implement data extraction and load from commonly used or custom data sources
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Implement data transformations resulting in a data model that business users can easily understand
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Setup a reporting tool of your choice and build the dashboards
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Optionally, onboard your team on the platform