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ThalesSnowflake at Thales: Event Streams
Thales, an industrials organization in France, uses Horizon Catalog from Snowflake to support real-time operations for platform engineers.
Thales asked for a cleaner operating picture of event streams. Snowflake is what they run.
“In France, platform engineers already knew where event streams went wrong: too many copies, too little ownership, and a close process that waited on the loudest inbox.”
“Snowflake is a cloud data platform that separates storage and compute so organizations can share, analyze, and govern data across clouds.”
Independent write-up. Figures come from public sources or are illustrative.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Fewer stalled items because event streams has a clear owner |
| Productivity | Handoffs in real-time operations sit in a shared queue instead of a mailbox trail |
| Capability | New joiners can see how real-time operations actually runs |
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Thales did not need another dashboard that nobody opened. It needed real-time operations to move. In France, platform engineers already knew where event streams went wrong: too many copies, too little ownership, and a close process that waited on the loudest inbox.
Horizon Catalog from Snowflake is now in that path. Snowflake is a cloud data platform that separates storage and compute so organizations can share, analyze, and govern data across clouds. The company treats it as production tooling for real-time operations, which is why platform engineers live in it rather than exporting from it once a quarter.
Thales can show how event streams is handled today. That is the value: a repeatable way to run real-time operations on software the rest of the industry already recognizes.
