November 2024 Summaries

The full CARTO platform is now available as a Snowflake Native App through the Snowflake Marketplace, allowing users to deploy CARTO directly within Snowflake's Data Cloud for advanced spatial analytics capabilities. This integration benefits both CARTO and Snowflake customers by making powerful geospatial technology more accessible and scalable. The CARTO Snowflake Native App offers streamlined deployment and maintenance, enhanced performance, heightened security, and the ability to utilize Snowflake Marketplace Capacity Drawdown Program for easier procurement. In 2025, CARTO plans to make its platform widely available as a containerized Snowflake Native App.

CARTO is a comprehensive and advanced spatial analytics and visualization platform built natively for the cloud. It bridges the gap between traditional BI tools and geospatial data by providing powerful tools for visualizing and analyzing location-based information. By embedding interactive maps built in CARTO into popular BI platforms like Looker Studio, Tableau, or Power BI, businesses can enhance their dashboards with better capabilities to explore and analyze spatial data, making data more accessible and engaging thanks to its interactivity. The process of embedding a CARTO map involves accessing the map's URL or embed code from the sharing settings and then configuring it within the chosen BI tool.