Simon ingests and unifies your data from anywhere and we want to share that data back with you. By partnering with Snowflake Data Sharing, we give you read-only access to the Simon results share. This is secure sharing of data where no data is copied or transferred between accounts (so it doesn't affect anything you have running in Simon). Using this shared data, you can query the views in your Business Intelligence (BI) tool directly alongside any of your other tables and report on it.
You can think of this function as a mini data warehouse to use for marketing analytics. With this "warehouse" you can:
- Measure the results of your Simon powered experiment in your BI tool
- Analyze data and create visualizations of marketing engagement data to understand the effectiveness of your marketing program
- Give other teams and end users at your company flexible access to Simon flow membership, and engagement data (like opens, clicks, etc)
- Access raw third party SaaS tool data that is collected by Simon Data
Sharing Data Across Regions and Cloud Platforms
Simon Snowflake Share supports cross-region shares but is limited to AWS and Azure.
When to use Snowflake Shares
You can also use data from data feed exports and segment exports, so when should you choose Snowflake shares instead?
| Snowflake Share | Data Feeds | Segment Exports |
|---|---|---|
| An outbound share from Simon into our your Snowflake account. This lets us pass on any data tables that are products of Simon (for example: flow adds, event tables, customer table etc). | These take a snapshot in time of contacts who are going through a flow. You can also add custom context to the data feed to send through attributes at the time of send (For example: LTV, product they viewed, price, etc.) | Segment exports will export the contacts in a segment at that moment to your local machine. We can also pass custom context through this method. |
| Sharing data via Snowflake Share makes it simple for you to get access to multiple Simon data products. The most common use case for a Snowflake Share is reporting. We can share: data feeds flow adds flow actions the Simon customer table _ Contact Event and Object datasets via a Snowflake Share so you can directly query on that data or connect it to a BI tool. | Data feeds can be dropped in S3, SFTP or they can also be loaded into Snowflake and shared with you there. You might choose a data feed if your preferred method is S3 or SFTP and you're only concerned with flows. | The most common use case is to test a segment audience before sending them through a flow. You could export a segment list and check that all users are supposed to be there. |
Tables
At a high level, Simon's Results share consists of the following views:
- Identity join (Legacy Identity clients only)
- Identity event join
- Event
- All Contact Event and Object results configured through Datasets or automatically by Simon
- Customer table join
- Metadata tables on flows/journeys and actions within flows
Custom datasets and fields
Many fields are custom configured to your dataset. You can also export these fields via a Snowflake share, however those fields aren't explained in this document because they're unique to each client. Use the Data Explorer and Data Feeds or contact your account manager for assistance understanding those tables.
Identity
Batch identity table that creates consistent Simon IDs per customer across join keys (for example, user_id). This is used to join a customer across client_id, email, and users_ids.
- Updated three times per day
| Column | Data type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Native ID | Varchar | Identifier for given contact in the given native identifier type |
| Native identifier (e.g. email, client_id, user_id) | Varchar | Identifier type |
| Simon ID | Varchar | Job is implemented as full batch job and simon_ids will not necessarily be consistent from one run to the next.Joins to results_simon_id in customer table |
Events
Events configured for use within Segmentation and Results as conversion goals and milestones (for example: Sendgrid sends and purchases). Events are any action a contact may have taken.
- Updated hourly (or more given data source)
Simon Event Tables
Flow_actions: Log of all actions taken by Simon via FlowsFlow_adds: Log of contacts being added to Simon Flows.
| Column | Data type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Native ID | Varchar | Event contact identifier |
| Native identifier (e.g. email, client_id, user_id) | Varchar | Identifier type |
| TS | Integer | Timestamp for event, in epoch seconds |
event_type | Varchar | Event name, defined in Datasets |
Event_properties (can be 0 to n) | Varchar | Dimensional fields |
Metadata
These tables are under active development and may be helpful for joining in additional metadata to some of the tables above. These tables may be labeled with Alpha.
- Updated daily
Metadata_simon_flows: provides configuration information on each flow
| Column | Data type | Description |
|---|---|---|
Campaign_id | Number | Flow ID |
Campaign_name | Varchar | Flow name |
Journey_name | Varchar | Journey name |
Current_status | Varchar | Flow status (live, stopped, archived) |
Campaign_category | Varchar | Flow type (one-time, recurring, triggered, event triggered, stream) |
Holdout_size | Float | If there is an experiment, holdout size (1 = 100% holdout) |
Has_experiment | Boolean | Can be ignored, use has_experiment column |
has_mve2_expt | Boolean | Can be ignored, use has_experiment column |
Experiment_name | Varchar | Experiment name, if applicable |
Experiment_id | Number | Experiment ID, if applicable |
Variant_id | Number | Flow ID name, if experiment |
Variant_name | Varchar | Flow variant name, if experiment |
Launch_date | Varchar | Date string of when flow was scheduled to launch |
Launched_at | Number | When the flow was scheduled to launch, in epoch seconds |
Segment_id | Varchar | Segment ID associated with the flow |
Segment_name | Varchar | Segment name associated with the flow |
Ended_at | Number | When the campaign was stopped, in epoch seconds (Null if flow is running) |
Created_at | Number | When the flow was initially created, in epoch seconds |
Updated_at | Number | When the flow was last updated, in epoch seconds |
Campaign_action_metadata: Join table showing the details behind any flow action (e.g. integration). Campaign actions are the flow actions in a flow. Each flow action maps one-to-one with an action type (e.g. triggered send) and integration (e.g. sendgrid)- Updated daily
| Column | Data type | Description |
|---|---|---|
Campaign_action_id | Number | Flow action ID |
Campaign_id | Number | Flow ID for the flow action this is a part of |
Integration_name | Varchar | Integration name linked to the flow action |
Action_name | Varchar | Action name (for example, triggered_send) |
Created_at | Number | When the flow action was initially created, in epoch seconds |
Updated_at | Number | When the flow action was last updated, in epoch seconds |
Action_config | Variant | Flexible variant data structure that includes data from templates, custom context, or channel configuration |
How do I access and use this data?
For detail on how to use Snowflake Share itself, please refer to Snowflake's documentation.
Existing Snowflake account
Contact your account manager to set up a share. You'll be given client access, then refer to Snowflake's documentation for more detail on how to use Snowflake.
No Snowflake account
If you don't currently use Snowflake, no problem, we can set you up with a sub-account so you can still view and query on your data. Contact your account manager to set this up, then refer to Snowflake's documentation for more detail on how to use Snowflake.
What we'll give you:
- A URL to log in to and run queries in your sub-account.
- A database you can create tables/views with and upload data to. You can store QA views that reference the share database and you can also upload other data into Snowflake then join with data from our share to perform additional analysis and reporting. (PROD/DEV schemas are generated by default).
- Roles we can assign your users to (we'll need their email address)
- Access to run QA queries with the data we provide you
We set up the following roles (and correlated permissions) that you can request for individual users:
| Role Type: | Reader | Power | IT Admin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Query both databases | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Generate stored procedures | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Create stages | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Create/modify/drop tables or views | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Create tasks | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |