phData wins Snowflake's 2026 AI Partner of the Year and Implementation Partner of the Year for the seventh consecutive year. Seven years. Same partner. Same implementation award. And now, a new one. phData has been named Snowflake's 2026 Implementation Partner of the Year for the seventh consecutive year and has won the 2026 AI Partner of the Year for the first time, both recognized at Snowflake Summit 2026 in San Francisco. Snowflake's Partner of the Year awards go to partners that demonstrate the highest combined impact across customer outcomes, technical depth, and ecosystem contribution. Winning the implementation award repeatedly means the bar keeps getting met. Winning the AI award for the first time signals something new: that phData's investment in helping customers build production-ready AI on Snowflake is being recognized at the highest level of the ecosystem. What does this award mean for phData? Two awards. Two different stories. The seventh consecutive Implementation Partner of the Year confirms what phData has built over nearly a decade: a delivery model that consistently produces outcomes at enterprise scale on Snowflake. That kind of sustained recognition doesn't happen by accident. It comes from technical depth, repeatable delivery, and customers who keep seeing results. The AI Partner of the Year is different. This is phData's first time winning it, and it reflects a deliberate shift in how phData has invested over the past year. Helping customers move from AI experimentation to governed, production-ready AI on Snowflake has become central to what phData does. This recognition confirms that the approach is resonating with Snowflake as much as it is with customers. Together, the two awards tell a complete story: phData delivers on the platform, and increasingly, phData delivers on the AI that runs on top of it. Helping customers build AI on Snowflake. Many companies are stuck between AI excitement and AI value. They have pilots, prototypes, and ideas, but not governed, repeatable systems running in production. phData has been focused on closing that gap. This year, that focus became visible through work with Cortex Code, Cortex AI, and agentic workflows. phData is actively helping Snowflake customers speed up delivery with Cortex Code while adding governance, predictability, and stronger implementation patterns. Customers don't need more AI hype. They need faster paths to usable outcomes. From POC to production: How phData compresses time-to-value. Most teams already have data, Snowflake, and at least a few AI experiments. The harder challenge is getting from pilots to something that is governed, scalable, and delivers business value in production. In 2026, phData launched phData Forge, an AI-native delivery methodology built to compress the journey from prototype to production. phData Forge bundles repeatable delivery patterns, the phData Toolkit, and agentic workflows so teams can move faster without sacrificing quality. phData now offers a fixed-fee Cortex Code migration that combines Snowflake-native capabilities with automated SQL translation and validation, compressing delivery timelines while maintaining high migration quality. Customer outcomes that back the award. * A global energy leader was running into extended pipeline runtimes with a legacy Synapse environment built on Spark and Azure Data Factory. phData executed a phased migration of 500+ tables and 60 pipelines to Snowflake with dbt, with rigorous validation and hands-on enablement throughout. A critical backfill pipeline that previously took 14 hours now runs in under 10 minutes, and the client re-engaged phData to expand the program to an additional 600 tables and 500+ transformation pipelines. Read the Full Story * One of the largest chemical conglomerates in the US needed to move its SAP data from on-premises SQL Server to Snowflake and build an enterprise data model that would scale. In a 10-week engagement, phData designed and implemented a medallion architecture with Kimball-style dimensional models using Coalesce, and upskilled the internal team to own and extend it. SAP transformations now run 40-60% faster, and reusable gold-layer patterns are reducing future data modeling timelines by 20-35%. Read the Full Story What 280+ Snowflake certifications mean in practice. phData holds more than 280 Snowflake technical certifications and more than 285 total Snowflake accreditations, and has delivered 255+ Snowflake consulting projects. That investment matters because Snowflake customers need practitioners who can design, migrate, optimize, govern, and extend the platform across enterprise environments, not just advise on strategy. phData is the number one partner in advanced Snowflake certifications, a credential no other partner currently holds. Accelerators that reduce delivery risk. phData's differentiation on Snowflake has never been services alone. The phData Toolkit (which includes tools for provisioning, privilege auditing, SQL translation, and Snowflake performance, security, and cost optimization) pairs directly with Snowflake-native approaches like Cortex Code to compress delivery timelines without sacrificing quality. In 2026, phData's Snowflake content focuses on what customers care about right now: Cortex Code, Snowflake Intelligence, Apache Iceberg architecture, semantic views, and faster shipping of agentic AI on Snowflake. That shift signals that phData is keeping pace with Snowflake's direction, not recycling past positioning. A word from its VP of Partnerships on winning these two awards. Melissa Bielagus VP of Partnerships at phData "Receiving Partner of the Year for the seventh time is incredibly meaningful because it reflects something bigger than a single moment. It represents consistency, evolution, and a team that keeps raising the bar year after year. What makes this year particularly exciting is earning the AI Partner of the Year for the first time. It's an acknowledgment of the legacy phData, Inc has shaped and recognition that phData, Inc is still building, innovating, and redefining what's possible." What's next for phData on Snowflake. The market needs better AI execution. It needs platforms that are AI-ready, teams that can move from prototype to production, and partners who know how to accelerate and de-risk that journey. phData will keep investing in Snowflake expertise, customer outcomes, AI delivery patterns, accelerators, and practical methodologies like Forge that help customers reach business value faster. Seven years in a row for implementation is a milestone. Winning AI Partner of the Year for the first time is a signal. But phData, Inc is far more excited about what comes next. Conclusion. Together, these awards reflect the strength of its partnership with Snowflake, the trust its customers place in phData, Inc, and the work its teams are doing to help enterprises build and scale on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, not just as a data platform, but as a foundation for production-ready AI. Ready to turn Snowflake into your AI foundation? If you're exploring how to modernize on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, operationalize Cortex AI and Cortex Code, or move faster from proof of concept to production, phData is ready to help. Its team can partner with you to apply the strategies in this post to your own environment and build governed, production-ready AI on Snowflake that delivers real business value. FAQs. What is Snowflake's AI Partner of the Year award? How many consecutive years has phData won Snowflake Partner of the Year? What is Snowflake Cortex AI, and how does phData use it? What is phData Forge? How does phData help with Snowflake Cortex Code migration?

phData named 2026 Global Snowflake Services AI Partner of the Year and 2026 AMER Snowflake Services Implementation Partner of the Year. Tuesday, 02 June 2026 03:30 PM Awards. Dual recognition highlights phData's leadership in delivering Intelligence Platform solutions powered by Snowflake CoCo MINNEAPOLIS, MN / ACCESS Newswire / June 2, 2026 / phData, a Snowflake Elite Services Partner, today announced that it has received two partner awards from Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company at Snowflake Summit 26: the 2026 Global Snowflake Services AI Partner of the Year and the 2026 AMER Snowflake Services Implementation Partner of the Year. The dual recognition marks the seventh consecutive year phData has earned a Snowflake Partner of the Year award. phData was recognized for its depth of AI delivery on the Snowflake platform and its track record of deploying production-grade Intelligence Platform solutions that combine Snowflake's native capabilities with phData's expertise in implementing transformational initiatives. At the core of phData's approach is the Intelligence Platform, the system that enables a business to compete in the age of AI by transforming data, knowledge, and processes into prescriptive, actionable decisions by both humans and agents. On Snowflake, phData brings the Intelligence Platform to life with the Snowflake Cortex AI suite, including CoCo, cutting implementation times and helping organizations move from static reporting to autonomous workflows that drive measurable outcomes. phData has invested heavily in CoCo since its launch, building implementation methodologies and delivery accelerators that help joint customers adopt the AI coding agent across data engineering, analytics, and agent development. By pairing CoCo with phData's Intelligence Platform approach, customers get a governed, scalable path from raw data to AI-powered products and agent-driven business processes, all within the Snowflake environment. "Winning both of these awards validates what our team has built over the past year. We've gone deep on CoCo and the full Cortex AI suite to help customers put the Intelligence Platform into production to deliver AI business outcomes at scale, not one-off science projects," said Ryan Bosshart, CEO at phData. "Our approach is straightforward: build the foundation, add the knowledge layer, and put intelligence into production. Snowflake's platform makes that possible, and together, we make it happen." phData delivers Intelligence Platform solutions on Snowflake across three core areas: Foundation: Data migrations, platform modernization, and data engineering that make organizations AI-ready on Snowflake. Knowledge: Semantic layers, data catalogs, and context frameworks that give both humans and AI agents a shared understanding of business data. Intelligence: AI products, agentic workflows, and CoCo-powered development that move organizations from dashboards to decisions and autonomous operations. With over 255 successful Snowflake implementations, phData brings deep technical proficiency and proven delivery to every engagement. "phData's commitment to Snowflake customers is clear in their results," said Amy Kodl, SVP, Worldwide Alliances & Channels at Snowflake. "Their expertise with CoCo and the broader Cortex AI suite is helping joint customers move from experimentation to production, showcasing what partners can deliver in the AI era. We look forward to continued collaboration as we help organizations put AI into production." Check out keynotes from Snowflake Summit 26 live or on-demand here and stay on top of the latest news and announcements from Snowflake on LinkedIn and X. About phData phData is a leader in Intelligence Platform services, helping enterprises turn data into real-time decisions and measurable outcomes. With deep expertise across the modern data ecosystem and a proven track record in production AI, phData is the bridge between AI's promise and its real-world impact. For more information, visit phdata.io.

phData named 2026 Global Snowflake Services AI Partner of the Year and 2026 AMER Snowflake Services Implementation Partner of the Year. Dual recognition highlights phData's leadership in delivering Intelligence Platform solutions powered by Snowflake CoCo MINNEAPOLIS, June 2, 2026 (Newswire.com) - phData, a Snowflake Elite Services Partner, today announced that it has received two partner awards from Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company at Snowflake Summit 26: the 2026 Global Snowflake Services AI Partner of the Year and the 2026 AMER Snowflake Services Implementation Partner of the Year. The dual recognition marks the seventh consecutive year phData has earned a Snowflake Partner of the Year award. phData was recognized for its depth of AI delivery on the Snowflake platform and its track record of deploying production-grade Intelligence Platform solutions that combine Snowflake's native capabilities with phData's expertise in implementing transformational initiatives. At the core of phData's approach is the Intelligence Platform, the system that enables a business to compete in the age of AI by transforming data, knowledge, and processes into prescriptive, actionable decisions by both humans and agents. On Snowflake, phData brings the Intelligence Platform to life with the Snowflake Cortex AI suite, including CoCo, cutting implementation times and helping organizations move from static reporting to autonomous workflows that drive measurable outcomes. phData has invested heavily in CoCo since its launch, building implementation methodologies and delivery accelerators that help joint customers adopt the AI coding agent across data engineering, analytics, and agent development. By pairing CoCo with phData's Intelligence Platform approach, customers get a governed, scalable path from raw data to AI-powered products and agent-driven business processes, all within the Snowflake environment. "Winning both of these awards validates what our team has built over the past year. We've gone deep on CoCo and the full Cortex AI suite to help customers put the Intelligence Platform into production to deliver AI business outcomes at scale, not one-off science projects," said Ryan Bosshart, CEO at phData. "Our approach is straightforward: build the foundation, add the knowledge layer, and put intelligence into production. Snowflake's platform makes that possible, and together, we make it happen." phData delivers Intelligence Platform solutions on Snowflake across three core areas: Foundation: Data migrations, platform modernization, and data engineering that make organizations AI-ready on Snowflake. Knowledge: Semantic layers, data catalogs, and context frameworks that give both humans and AI agents a shared understanding of business data. Intelligence: AI products, agentic workflows, and CoCo-powered development that move organizations from dashboards to decisions and autonomous operations. With over 255 successful Snowflake implementations, phData brings deep technical proficiency and proven delivery to every engagement. "phData's commitment to Snowflake customers is clear in their results," said Amy Kodl, SVP, Worldwide Alliances & Channels at Snowflake. "Their expertise with CoCo and the broader Cortex AI suite is helping joint customers move from experimentation to production, showcasing what partners can deliver in the AI era. We look forward to continued collaboration as we help organizations put AI into production." Check out keynotes from Snowflake Summit 26 live or on-demand here and stay on top of the latest news and announcements from Snowflake on LinkedIn and X. About phData phData is a leader in Intelligence Platform services, helping enterprises turn data into real-time decisions and measurable outcomes. With deep expertise across the modern data ecosystem and a proven track record in production AI, phData is the bridge between AI's promise and its real-world impact. For more information, visit phdata.io.