Transfer App

Welcome to the Transfer App Documentation Space! Explore how the Transfer App can add needed business processes to file movement.

Transfer App is a tool to allow business users to upload data to Snowflake.

Transfer App is an alternative to a common IT pattern of: Secured File Share + IT Polling Job + File Maintenance Script + ETL + Reporting. Which is difficult for end users to understand, and difficult for IT to support.

Transfer App provides many benefits, including:

• A Robust User Experience

  • Familiar browser-based solution for file submission and reporting

  • Secured by Snowflake authentication and role authorization

  • Immediate feedback to user on result of upload

• Supports both Excel and CSV files

• History of files that were uploaded

• Ability to download previously uploaded files

Business process for file transfers:

• Provides audit trail of what user uploaded a file, and when

• Logs all file movement activity

• Maintains a copy of every file that has been uploaded

• Custom reporting of upload activity from shared views

• Secured by Snowflake roles

• End users do not need insert privileges on Snowflake tables

• All files are stored outside the application in the account's own databases

• All data remains in the customer's snowflake account, and never transits through a 3rd party