2026 EMEA
Snowflake Services
Growth Partner
of the Year
Datalab has been recognized for its achievements within the Snowflake AI Data Cloud ecosystem, helping joint customers modernize their data platforms, accelerate AI adoption, and unlock faster, more actionable insights.
Everything your data needs,
under one roof.
One integrated practice spanning strategy, cloud infrastructure, engineering, analytics, and AI. No need to stitch together multiple vendors.
AI & Data Strategy
We help you identify where data and AI create real business value, prioritise initiatives with the highest return, and build a roadmap that turns ambition into a practical plan of action.
Explore strategy →Cloud Architecture
Modern, Snowflake-first data platforms designed for scale: from initial architecture through full migration, optimisation, and ongoing platform governance on the world's leading data cloud.
Explore architecture →Data Engineering
Reliable pipelines that bring together data from every source (APIs, databases, flat files) into a single, governed layer your teams can actually trust.
Explore engineering →Data Visualisation
Beautiful, actionable dashboards built for the people who use them: from executive KPI views to deep operational reports, on Power BI, ThoughtSpot, or Sigma.
Explore visualisation →Embedded Analytics
Differentiate your product by embedding analytics directly into your applications and client workflows, making your platform smarter without lifting a finger.
Explore embedded →Capability Development
We don't just deliver and walk away. We embed alongside your team, upskill your people, and build internal data capability that keeps growing long after the project ends.
Explore development →
Your South African
Snowflake Elite Partner.
There is no AI strategy without a data strategy. As a Snowflake Elite Partner, the highest tier of the Snowflake partner ecosystem, Datalab designs and delivers modern data platforms built on the world's leading AI Data Cloud, giving your organisation secure data sharing, elastic compute, and a single governed source of truth.
Elite Tier Status
The highest level of the Snowflake partner programme, reserved for partners with the deepest technical expertise and the strongest delivery track record in market.
Authorised Reseller
Purchase Snowflake licenses directly through Datalab, simplifying procurement, commercial terms, and ongoing account management under one trusted partner.
End-to-End Delivery
From architecture and migration to data engineering, analytics, and AI, we deliver the full Snowflake stack in-house with a single accountable team from day one.
South Africa's Home Team
Local expertise, local context, local accountability. We understand the South African data landscape and we're here for the long term, not just the first deployment.
The Snowflake ecosystem of partners
Outcomes that
speak for themselves.
Across financial services, retail, healthcare, agriculture, and beyond: a selection of the organisations we've helped transform with data.
We delivered a cloud data warehouse for Old Mutual, enabling both internal self-service analytics and structured external reporting from a single, governed platform.
We designed and delivered an enterprise data warehouse for Mukuru, consolidating complex financial data into a single, trusted source for reporting and analysis.
We built an analytics service and Power BI reporting solution for Woolworths' perishable goods department, tracking stock and sales to sharpen inventory decisions.
We ran product evaluations and proof of concept assessments for Allan Gray, progressing through to the delivery of analytics and AI use cases across multiple departments.
Following a product evaluation, we delivered a greenfield data analytics platform for Pathcare, purpose-built for physician and patient analytics.
We supported TFG's data analytics practice and developed Power BI reports to improve visibility across key areas of the business.
We built a greenfield enterprise analytics platform for Chiltern Farm, giving the team a unified view of farm operations and output to support day-to-day decision-making.
We architected an enterprise SQL data warehouse for 10X, giving their teams a reliable, scalable foundation for analytics across the business.
We migrated Agrihub from a legacy system to a cloud-first platform, encompassing a data warehouse, master data management, internal and external reporting, and structured data sharing.
We delivered a greenfield cloud-first enterprise analytics platform for Ares, unifying data from online and physical operations to support near-real-time reporting.
We developed a process optimisation dashboard for DaVita, consolidating laboratory data to track and improve performance across operations at scale.
We delivered a greenfield data analytics platform for Domino's, covering production performance, logistics, food cost, and delivery optimisation in a single, unified view.
We provided design support for Dynacare's enterprise data warehouse, including ETL pipeline architecture and consulting services to underpin their analytics programme.
We built a Power BI reporting platform for FreshGround, turning fragmented operational data into clear, actionable dashboards for the business.
We implemented a greenfield data analytics platform for Karsten, spanning all farm operations and logistics to give the business a single, reliable view of performance.
We researched and delivered a proof of concept for A&E patient analytics using a cloud-native platform, demonstrating measurable opportunity for operational optimisation.
We built a greenfield analytics platform for Phakamani, supporting agent tracking, funding recipient management, and geospatial analytics for deeper operational insight.
We delivered a greenfield data analytics platform for the Reading Agency, built to track and measure the performance of their annual Summer Reading Challenge.
We delivered a greenfield data analytics platform for Starbucks, covering production performance metrics, rewards programme tracking, and food cost analysis.
We guided Eku Energy through a data strategy and technology evaluation, advising on product selection and recommending Snowflake as the foundation for their analytics architecture.
We designed and delivered an enterprise data warehouse for GB Bank, building a robust Matillion and Snowflake platform to support analytics at scale.
We responded to a strategic RFP from Spec-Savers and delivered a modern cloud analytics architecture, replacing their existing ETL pattern with a scalable Snowflake-based platform to reduce cost and support growing data volumes.
Watch us
in action.
Lunch & Learn sessions, Snowflake deep-dives, and client stories from the Datalab team on YouTube.
Straight from
the lab.
Technical deep-dives, Snowflake guides, and AI data insights published regularly on Medium by Douglas Day and the Datalab team.
Snowflake AI SQL User Guide: AI_EMBED
Create vector embeddings from text directly in SQL, building the foundation for semantic search, clustering, and recommendation systems inside Snowflake.
Read on Medium → Snowflake Builders BlogSnowflake AI SQL User Guide: AI_SIMILARITY
Read on Medium → Snowflake Builders BlogSnowflake AI SQL User Guide: AI_FILTER
Read on Medium → Snowflake Builders BlogSnowflake AI SQL User Guide: AI_SUMMARIZE_AGG
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