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Another app, another reason to stay
Snowflake’s marketplace is starting to look like the app store your phone can’t live without. Digital Envoy is launching its LocID Native App on Snowflake, which lets customers do privacy-first identity collaboration with zero data egress — a fancy way of saying the data doesn’t have to go on a road trip just to get useful.
Why this matters
For Snowflake, these partner launches are the whole game. Every native app, workflow, or data product that lands inside its ecosystem makes the platform stickier. And stickiness is Wall Street catnip, because the less customers want to leave, the more pricing power and usage growth Snowflake can potentially squeeze out.
The investor takeaway
This isn’t the kind of announcement that makes the stock moon on its own. But it does reinforce the same story Snowflake bulls keep repeating: the company wants to be the central hub where data collaboration happens, not just a warehouse sitting in the corner collecting digital dust.
Big picture: the more Snowflake becomes the place partners launch first, the more it starts to feel less like software and more like infrastructure your data stack can’t easily untangle itself from.