'IN INDIA'S FRAGMENTED ESG SPACE, BUSINESSES NEED EXPERT ADVICE'
Outlook Business|July 2023
Snowflake, the US-headquartered cloud data platform, has emerged as a binding glue in the fragmented data ecosystem of environmental, social and governance (ESG) frameworks
'IN INDIA'S FRAGMENTED ESG SPACE, BUSINESSES NEED EXPERT ADVICE'

In today’s business landscape, ESG considerations are gaining prominence, as companies strive to align their operations with sustainable practices and meet evolving stakeholder expectations. Rinesh Patel, global head of financial services at Snowflake, tells Shailaja Tripathi how important it is for modern corporations to navigate the complex web of scattered ESG frameworks using tech tools which are customised to honour the investor and regulator’s expectations. Edited excerpts:

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Tell us about Snowflake.

Snowflake is a data platform built in the cloud to help customers get access to data, manage that data and distribute it to help solve the internal data challenges and processes that help their organisations function in a data-driven economy.

Since ESG reporting is a hot topic, how do you see Snowflake carving out a niche?

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