‘There is a little bit of a gold rush here in terms of who is able to create value for companies faster,’ says Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy.
Snowflake used its annual Summit event to showcase advancements in its CoWork personal work agent formerly known as Snowflake Intelligence, its CoCo artificial intelligence coding agent formerly known as Cortex Code and its partner ecosystem as the AI era drives greater consumption of its data platform and tools.
Solution providers “are critical to our go-to market,” Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy said in response to a question from CRN during a press conference at Summit 2026. Summit runs through Thursday in San Francisco.
“What tools like CoCo make possible is much faster implementation, much faster time-to-value,” Ramaswamy said. “There is a little bit of a gold rush here in terms of who is able to create value for companies faster.”
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Eric Walk, vice president of AI data platforms at St. Louis-based Snowflake solution provider Perficient, No. 61 on CRN’s 2025 Solution Provider 500, told CRN in an interview that Snowflake has been building a truly unified data platform that brings together streaming, governance and other essential parts of the market.
The Perficient customers he works with have sought platforms like Snowflake for the flexibility of taking action on their data regardless of the clouds they use, as just one example of the platform’s power, he said. He also sees Snowflake expanding its class of potential users into knowledge workers through their advancements in CoWork.
“It’s huge for creating context to power AI,” Walk said.
As part of the product news coming out of Summit, Snowflake revealed that prebuilt CoCo Skills for common data engineering and AI workflows across all data are now generally available (GA).
Other newly GA product innovations include a CoCo plugin for Anthropic’s Claude Code and a secured local sandbox to operate agents in isolated local environments, according to Snowflake.
Going GA soon are CoCo Cloud Agents for starting work in the Snowsight web-based GUI and running it in the cloud without running anything locally on a laptop, a native CoCo Desktop application and a Snowflake CoWork iOS mobile application.
Public previews disclosed during Summit include a new CoCo Skills Catalog for discovering, sharing and reusing workflows across teams plus an integration with Vercel, according to the vendor.
Upcoming public previews include CoCo Automations that power recurring, event-driven workflows, a CoCo mobile application, publishable dashboards for CoWork artifacts and integration with Salesforce Slackbot, VS Code and more.
Coming to private preview soon is a CoCo extension with Microsoft Excel and a CoWork Cortex Sense capability for bringing together data, business definitions and operational knowledge for agents.
CoCo is one of the biggest opportunities for Snowflake solution providers looking ahead, Amy Kodl, the vendor’s senior vice president of worldwide alliances and channels, told CRN in an interview. CoCo has already improved time to go live by around 26 percent for some users, for example.
“It’s not just about technology for technology’s sake,” Kodl said. “It is about making sure we’re driving those outcomes.”
Snowflake’s competitive differentiator in the age of AI includes unlocking model choice flexibility for users and interoperability with a variety of cloud providers—all while securing data and keeping it governed, Kodl said. The vendor has invested over $200 million in its partner ecosystem over the last 12 months as a sign of the continued importance of the community.
“We’re now asking that our partners are really driving towards outcomes—that they’re committing up front with the customers,” she said.
