We’re thrilled to share that phData has once again been named the 2025 Snowflake Americas Partner of the Year!
This award represents one of the highest honors within the Snowflake AI Data Cloud partner ecosystem and is our sixth consecutive year earning Partner of the Year status with Snowflake. We couldn’t be more proud of our team, our clients, and our partnership for achieving this level of success together once again!
As we celebrate this remarkable milestone, it’s important to pause and reflect on what this recognition truly means for our community and the broader data ecosystem. No one sums up the spirit of our success better than Sam Mehlhaff, SVP of Partnerships & Marketing at phData, who remarked:
Our partnership continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible with the Snowflake platform, delivering outstanding outcomes for our joint customers. By combining our deep expertise in AI with Snowflake’s powerful capabilities, we’ve helped businesses unlock transformative insights from their data — and that’s only the beginning.
I couldn’t be more proud of our employees, our clients, and our incredible partnership with Snowflake as we celebrate this milestone for the sixth consecutive year.
This prestigious award was presented live at the 2025 Snowflake Summit event in San Francisco, California.
In this blog, we’ll explore what led to this award and what it signifies for phData’s future.
Why Does phData Keep Winning Snowflake Partner of the Year?
phData’s position as a leading Snowflake partner isn’t due to one standout moment or factor. It’s the combination of our deep AI expertise, consistent customer success, powerful automation tools, and ongoing thought leadership that truly sets us apart.
Before we explore these reasons in greater detail, we thought it would be fun to ask our internal AI-powered workplace search and knowledge discovery tool, Glean, what it thought, and here’s the response:
The specific contributions that led phData to win the 2025 Snowflake Partner of the Year award include:
Exceptional Contribution to the Snowflake Community: phData has been recognized for consistently excelling in designing, implementing, and maintaining cutting-edge data and AI application solutions for mutual clients. Their efforts have significantly contributed to the Snowflake ecosystem.
Technical Excellence and Implementations: With over 300 Snowflake technical certifications and more than 100 implementations, phData has demonstrated a high level of technical expertise and a significant number of successful deployments.
Joint Customer Projects: phData maintains a robust portfolio of joint customer projects, showcasing its capability to collaborate effectively with Snowflake and successfully complete mutual clients’ projects.
Innovation in AI Applications: phData has helped joint customers deploy AI applications on the Snowflake platform. By leveraging a curated team of renowned AI experts and utilizing Snowflake’s AI products like Cortex and Snowpark ML, they have reliably brought AI use cases to production.
Thought Leadership: phData has made significant thought leadership contributions, publishing over 500 technical articles on Snowflake and conducting numerous hands-on labs and user group sessions globally over the past six years.
Industry-Specific Solutions: phData has developed pre-built industry-specific solutions in collaboration with Snowflake to address real-world use cases. Examples include the first publicly available Veeva connector for the Healthcare industry and a robust demand forecasting solution for the Manufacturing sector.
These contributions, alongside their dedication, passion, and continuous innovation within the Snowflake ecosystem, have solidified their position as a leading Snowflake partner and earned them the 2025 Partner of the Year award.
To be honest, Glean did an exceptional job recapping why we keep winning Partner of the Year, but if you want a deeper look, keep reading to uncover how each of these elements contributes to our continued success:
Experience with AI
We are undoubtedly in the thick of an AI revolution. Just about every industry has been impacted, but few businesses are using AI productively and repeatably. Bringing AI into production for customers is a massive (if not the biggest) priority for Snowflake, and what distinguishes phData is that we’re actively helping customers leverage AI from the proof of concept to production phases.
After working with numerous businesses on how to best leverage AI to achieve transformative value, we’ve uncovered several lessons, observed the rise & fall of countless AI trends, and ultimately developed a proven approach for AI that has captured the attention of Snowflake and businesses alike.
To give you more insight into what we’re up to on the AI front, check out this interview with Dominick Rocco, VP of AI & ML at phData, that discusses some of today’s most pressing AI questions, including:
How important is it for organizations to develop AI capabilities this year?
What’s the biggest thing limiting businesses from their AI readiness?
What must enterprises do to evolve to the next level of their AI rollout?
Where are most organizations on their AI maturity journey with respect to their data platforms?
What do you think AI will look like for most enterprises in a year from now?
Lastly, we’re offering a series of Free Data and AI Strategy Assessment workshops designed to help organizations of all sizes get clear, concise direction on implementing their AI ambitions.
These workshops have historically been a fantastic chance for folks to meet with our experts, explore their business objectives, identify top use cases for AI, and ultimately make noticeable progress on their AI journey.
Customer Success
Customer success worthy of a referral is one of our top organizational initiatives. We take great pride in our 98 percent average renewal rate for phData Elastic Operations Managed Service, DataOps, and MLOps, and ensure every client is successful.
Automation Software
Over the years, we’ve built a suite of automation tools to help our customers and community get more out of their data. After several iterations and improvements, we developed the phData Toolkit, a comprehensive suite of automation tools that help customers maximize their data usage.
The phData Toolkit is a significant differentiator in the market, especially among other Snowflake Services providers. Our Toolkit is free for customers to use and contains several powerful automation tools, including the Privilege Audit Tool, which simplifies Snowflake data access auditing through insightful visualizations and reports, and the new Advisor Tool, which optimizes Snowflake usage.
Lastly, we are proud to announce that two of our most powerful Toolkit tools are now available as Snowflake Native Apps on the Snowflake Marketplace!
Snowflake Advisor Tool – Pre-configured set of checks to identify opportunities and provide recommendations that ensure your Snowflake environment is following best practices and industry standards across a variety of categories, including configuration best practices, security enhancements, performance optimizations, and much more!
Access Tool – Helps users and administrators better understand roles and privileges in the Snowflake Data Cloud using a searchable interface where you can drill down into your Snowflake account metadata, including users, roles, privileges, databases, and schemas.
Snowflake Resources
Another key element that has been instrumental in securing this award is phData’s substantial contributions to the Snowflake community. Over the last five years, phData has been a prolific content creator, publishing hundreds of technical articles related to Snowflake and hosting numerous hands-on labs and user group sessions worldwide.
Below are five of our most popular/requested Snowflake resources:
Certifications
A massive part of helping our customers be successful with Snowflake is knowing the ins and outs of the platform. At phData, we aim to gain SnowPro Core certification for 100% of our technical employees, and we support this initiative by offering bonuses, encouragement, and time off to get certified.
The result? phData achieved more Advance Snowflake Certifications than any other partner in 2024. Overall, phData employees have over 600 certifications, with many more in flight. We also wrote the book (blog) on how to pass the SnowPro Core certification exam.
What Does This Award Mean for phData?
Receiving this esteemed award is a testament to the dedication, expertise, and teamwork we bring to each project alongside our valued partners at Snowflake. We’re thrilled with the outstanding results Snowflake delivers for our clients, and being recognized as the 2025 Americas Snowflake Partner of the Year is truly an honor!
We extend our heartfelt gratitude to our customers, whose continued support and trust in phData inspire us to jointly pave the way for a data-driven future.
What’s Next for phData?
We aim to be the world leader in delivering data and AI products on a modern data platform. To support this mission, we will continue leveraging the modern data stack to help our customers solve real business problems.
Additionally, we’re going to continue to work closely with our partner, Snowflake, on new capabilities and features that help accelerate customer use cases.
Conclusion
We’re honored to be recognized as the 2025 Snowflake Americas Partner of the Year. This recognition reflects the strong partnership we’ve built with Snowflake and the meaningful work we’ve accomplished together for our customers.
Thank you to the Snowflake team for this honor and for the continued collaboration. We remain focused on helping organizations unlock the full potential of their data with Snowflake, and we’re excited about what’s ahead.
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