Snowflake Horizon Catalog: Transforming Metadata Into Business Context for the AI Era

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As organizations accelerate their AI and analytics initiatives, many are discovering that success depends on more than just having access to data. It requires trusted context. While enterprises have invested heavily in modern data platforms, data governance, and cloud infrastructure, many still struggle to answer fundamental questions: What does this data mean? Where did it come from? Can it be trusted? And how should AI systems interpret it?

Snowflake Horizon Catalog is designed to help solve these challenges. By transforming metadata into an active layer of business intelligence, Horizon Catalog helps organizations improve data discovery, governance, analytics adoption, and AI readiness.

Currently in private preview, Horizon Catalog represents Snowflake’s vision for creating a unified understanding of enterprise data across people, applications, analytics tools, and AI agents.

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