Although the organization was already confident in its Snowflake platform and had invested in a third‑party tool to help manage compute costs, leadership wanted to know if other opportunities for optimization existed. The focus was to gain deeper insights into security, storage, ingestion strategies, and hidden cost savings beyond what their internal controls and existing tooling provided.

If unaddressed, the company risked overspending on Snowflake workloads, potential security gaps, and reduced data team efficiency—all of which could slow down their ability to deliver services to both customers and merchants.

Ippon addressed this challenge through our Snowflake Concierge Service. Over the course of three months, our data engineering team worked directly with the client to assess every angle of their Snowflake environment and provide actionable improvement strategies.

The engagement included evaluating:

• Security practices, including MFA and network policies
• Storage usage and compute overspending
• Data ingestion strategies (including Snowpipe and COPY INTO)
• Inefficient or error‑prone queries
• Opportunities to leverage deeper Snowflake features

This approach delivered both quick wins for immediate optimization and long‑term strategic recommendations to guide the client’s Snowflake roadmap.

Ippon provided measurable improvements that enhanced efficiency, security, and cost‑effectiveness:

• Identified excessive Snowpipe costs and recommended replacing with a COPY INTO strategy, delivering 35% savings on ingestion workloads.
• Initiated rollout of network policies and multi‑factor authentication, strengthening security controls and protecting sensitive data.
• Located a query causing ~140GB of spillage, provided education, and guided optimization to prevent recurring waste.
• Detected failed queries running repeatedly without alerts, helping the client resolve silent issues and improve reliability.
• Delivered demos on ASOF Joins, Notification Integrations, and Zero Copy Cloning, expanding their capabilities and getting more value from Snowflake.

Through these optimizations, the client achieved significant cost reduction, improved query performance, stronger data governance, and a clear roadmap for better platform usage. 

Our client is a financial services company that offers zero‑stress financing to customers from all financial backgrounds. With a powerful technology platform and a simple application process, they enable customers to break down essential purchases into manageable payments while helping their merchant partners drive long‑term growth.

“Ippon's Concierge Service was valuable in evaluating our Snowflake environment. Their expertise provided insightful recommendations to enhance security, optimize our Snowpipe workloads, and uncover poor/y performing processes. Their support provided guidance and direction on Snowflake best practices, which allowed us to stay focused on our internal delivery. Wonderful partnership and experience.”