Advanced Analytics

Advanced analytics built around SnapQL and SnapQL pipelines.

The advanced analytics story is not just that DataLAB can run queries. It is that teams can work through real analytical processes in a SQL-first environment, then turn repeated work into SnapQL pipelines.

This is especially useful where analysts need more than ad hoc querying but do not want every workflow to become a separate engineering project.

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Teams that already think in SQL

The story is strongest where analysts and technical users already understand query-driven work and want a more capable workflow layer around it.

Repeated analytical processes

SnapQL pipelines matter most when the same preparation, validation, and reporting logic needs to be run again and again with less manual effort.

Desktop-first adoption today

The most mature advanced analytics experience is still the desktop product. The web experience exists as an MVP, but it is not yet the main production surface.

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What makes the advanced analytics layer useful

The value is not only expressive querying. It is the ability to turn analysis into a cleaner, more repeatable operating workflow.

SnapQL querying

Use SnapQL as the working language for practical business analysis, from quick inspection to more structured analytical workflows.

SnapQL pipelines

Turn repeated preparation, validation, transformation, and export work into named pipelines instead of rebuilding the process manually every cycle.

Structured validation

Keep analytics closer to operational reality by combining query work with validation steps, exception handling, and repeatable outputs.

Connected workflow surface

Keep query logic, datasets, results, financial review, and export actions close together instead of scattering them across disconnected tools.

Why It Matters

Queries are useful, but repeatable analytical workflows are better

Many teams can write a useful query once. The harder problem is turning that work into something the team can rerun, validate, and trust when the same request appears again next week or next month.

SnapQL and SnapQL pipelines are the stronger story because they move the product beyond one-off query execution into a more structured analytical operating model.

Query with intent

SnapQL gives teams a direct way to inspect, aggregate, and validate business data without wrapping every task in a different tool or notebook flow.

Package repeat work into pipelines

SnapQL pipelines let teams capture recurring preparation, transformation, and export logic so the workflow becomes easier to rerun and explain.

Carry results into adjacent workflows

Outputs can move into reporting, financial review, model work, or downstream exports without losing the thread of how the analysis was built.

snapql.pipeline

-- SnapQL: inspect and prepare business data
SELECT entity,
       DATE_TRUNC('month', CAST(posting_date AS DATE)) AS month,
       SUM(debit_amount) - SUM(credit_amount) AS net_movement,
       COUNT(*) AS journal_lines
FROM general_ledger
GROUP BY entity, DATE_TRUNC('month', CAST(posting_date AS DATE))
ORDER BY month DESC;

PIPELINE monthly_review(@entity, @period):
    LOAD general_ledger WHERE entity = @entity
    VALIDATE general_ledger WHERE debit_amount IS NOT NULL
    WITH general_ledger_groupbyACC AS
        SELECT account,
               SUM(debit_amount) AS debit_total,
               SUM(credit_amount) AS credit_total
        FROM general_ledger
        GROUP BY account
    EXPORT TO PARQUET AS general_ledger_groupbyACC
END PIPELINE;

Commercial Angle

A sharper analytics story than generic reporting alone

SnapQL gives Snaplytics a clearer language for the advanced analytics side of the product.

SQL-first positioning

SnapQL is easier to explain to data-heavy teams than a vague analytics message because it anchors the story in a working language and a real operating surface.

Pipelines make the story practical

SnapQL pipelines turn the product from “a place to query” into “a place to run repeatable analytical processes,” which is commercially stronger.

Strong complement to the finance wedge

Finance can be the wedge, while SnapQL and pipelines explain the broader advanced analytics ambition without pretending the product is only a finance tool.

Want to see SnapQL and pipelines on a real workflow?

The best next step is a focused walkthrough using one of your actual analytical processes so you can see how SnapQL and SnapQL pipelines would fit in practice.

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Advanced analytics built around SnapQL and SnapQL pipelines.

This is especially useful where analysts need more than ad hoc querying but do not want every workflow to become a separate engineering project.

-- SnapQL: inspect and prepare business data SELECT entity, DATE_TRUNC('month', CAST(posting_date AS DATE)) AS month, SUM(debit_amount) - SUM(credit_amount) AS net_movement, COUNT(*) AS journal_lines FROM general_ledger GROUP BY entity, DATE_TRUNC('month', CAST(posting_date AS DATE)) ORDER BY month DESC; PIPELINE monthly_review(@entity, @period): LOAD general_ledger WHERE entity = @entity VALIDATE general_ledger WHERE debit_amount IS NOT NULL WITH general_ledger_groupbyACC AS SELECT account, SUM(debit_amount) AS debit_total, SUM(credit_amount) AS credit_total FROM general_ledger GROUP BY account EXPORT TO PARQUET AS general_ledger_groupbyACC END PIPELINE;