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Capital One enters enterprise B2B software, new data management SaaS

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Re: Capital One enters enterprise B2B software, new data management SaaS

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Post by cj »

Here’s a direct link to Capital One Software: https://www.capitalone.com/software/

And a link to the first product they launched, “Slingshot”: https://www.capitalone.com/software/solutions/

Essentially it sounds like Capital One is taking some of their internal tooling and starting to sell it, starting with their tooling for managing Snowflake instances.

Re: Capital One enters enterprise B2B software, new data management SaaS

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Post by PaulsWallet »

Surprising that a bank is going in this direction but not surprising that it was Capital One. They have historically been pretty technology forward in comparison to other US banks. They are one of the only US banks that provide pretty pain-free APIs to the public.

Re: Capital One enters enterprise B2B software, new data management SaaS

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Post by cassianoleal »

cj wrote: post #3

Here’s a direct link to Capital One Software: https://www.capitalone.com/software/ And a link to the first product they launched, “Slingshot”: https://www.capitalone.com/software/solutions/ Essentially it sounds like Capital One is taking some of their internal tooling and starting to sell it, starting with their tooling for managing Snowflake instances.

Snowflake, in my circles, means something that's outside of the patterns in use and doesn't scale. It's something that's inherently bad and you want as little of it as possible, preferably make it visible and obvious, and manage it outside of your regular repositories and pipelines. Keep bringing it up at retros and planning until it's either industrialised along with the other things you support, or you drop/refactor/hand over.

Terrible name for a product!

Re: Capital One enters enterprise B2B software, new data management SaaS

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Post by ohwellhere »

cassianoleal wrote: post #6
cj wrote: post #3

Here’s a direct link to Capital One Software: https://www.capitalone.com/software/ And a link to the first product they launched, “Slingshot”: https://www.capitalone.com/software/solutions/ Essentially it sounds like Capital One is taking some of their internal tooling and starting to sell it, starting with their tooling for managing Snowflake instances.

Snowflake, in my circles, means something that's outside of the patterns in use and doesn't scale. It's something that's inherently bad and you want as little of it as possible, preferably make it visible and obvious, and manage it outside of your regular repositories and pipelines. Keep bringing it up at retros and planning until it's either industrialised along with the other things you support, or you drop/refacto…

Seems like they’ve done okay.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/snowflake-computing

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