Oracle and Snowflake Bring AI Data Cloud to OCI as a Native First-Party Service

Oracle and Snowflake have announced a strategic expansion of their cloud partnership, making Snowflake AI Data Cloud available as a native, first-party service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Announced at Oracle AI World, the move aims to simplify enterprise data management and accelerate AI adoption by bringing Snowflake’s analytics and AI capabilities closer to business-critical Oracle data.

Snowflake Becomes Available Directly Through OCI

Under the expanded arrangement, customers will be able to purchase, provision and consume Snowflake directly through Oracle. Oracle will manage commercial arrangements, including pricing, discounts and billing, creating a single purchasing relationship.

Customers can also use their existing Oracle Universal Credits to access Snowflake on OCI. This is intended to simplify procurement and allow organizations to make better use of existing cloud commitments.

The integration brings Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud alongside Oracle’s infrastructure, database, AI and enterprise application services.

Four Key Benefits for Enterprise Data and AI

The collaboration focuses on four major areas.

Connected Enterprise Data: Organizations can apply Snowflake’s analytics and AI capabilities to data from Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, Oracle NetSuite, Oracle Autonomous AI Database, MySQL HeatWave and Oracle NoSQL Database.

Faster Analytics and AI Development: Native data transfer and supported integrations are designed to reduce dependence on custom-built data pipelines. This can help accelerate reporting, data engineering, machine learning and AI-driven insights.

Security and Data Governance: Customers can use Snowflake alongside their enterprise data while maintaining control over data access, usage and governance. This is particularly important for organizations handling sensitive financial, operational and customer information.

Reduced Data Transfer Costs: Moving data within OCI can help reduce cross-cloud data movement and associated egress costs while improving access to enterprise information.

Implications for ERP and Enterprise AI

The partnership could be particularly relevant for organizations using Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, NetSuite and other Oracle database services. These businesses can explore Snowflake’s analytical capabilities without establishing entirely separate cloud environments for their data workloads.

For finance, supply chain and operations teams, the integration creates opportunities to combine ERP information with data from other enterprise systems for consolidated reporting, predictive analytics and AI-powered decision support.

The announcement also reflects a broader cloud industry trend: enterprises increasingly want flexibility to use multiple data and AI platforms while maintaining security, governance and control over their information.

Organizations considering the offering should evaluate integration requirements, data governance, consumption costs and workload architecture before deployment.

Key Takeaways

• Strategic partnership: Oracle and Snowflake are expanding their collaboration by bringing Snowflake AI Data Cloud to OCI as a native service.
• Simplified procurement: Customers can purchase Snowflake through Oracle and use Oracle Universal Credits.
• ERP data integration: Supported sources include Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, NetSuite and Oracle database services.
• Faster AI adoption: Native integrations aim to reduce custom data pipelines and accelerate analytics and machine learning.
• Data governance: Customers retain control over data access, usage and security.
• Cost optimization: Data movement within OCI is designed to reduce cross-cloud transfer and associated egress costs.