Case Study: CapSpecialty achieves up to 200x faster reporting with Snowflake

CapSpecialty Achieves up to 200 Times Faster Reporting with Snowflake

CapSpecialty, a U.S. specialty insurer serving small- to mid-sized businesses, faced slow actuarial and operational reporting—some queries over 10 years of data took hours or days on its legacy data warehouse. A proposed hardware upgrade would have cost roughly $500,000 in licensing and still only modestly improved performance, so the company sought a faster, more cost-effective, secure, and easy-to-migrate solution.

CapSpecialty implemented the Snowflake cloud data warehouse, migrating quickly and using its existing analytics tools with minimal disruption. The move delivered 20–200× faster reports (monthly runs that took 2–3 days now take ~45 minutes; single reports reduced from ~22 hours to 4 minutes), improved decision speed, stronger security, scalable support for semi-structured data, and a much lower total cost of ownership.

CapSpecialty

Ken Wood

Data Team Manager