From black box to business asset: Solving the unstructured data challenge with Ataccama and Snowflake Document AI

The unstructured data black box

Documents and files aren’t just simple records; they house critical business knowledge. Yet for most organizations, unstructured data remains one of the most underutilized resources in the enterprise. According to IDC, it makes up the majority of enterprise information and is growing by more than 55% year over year. Despite this, 95% of organizations report that it’s their most difficult data type to manage, trust, and use. 

Buried in static files, unstructured data is hard to scale, harder to govern, and nearly impossible to trust at enterprise scale. If you can’t access or validate what’s inside your documents, you can’t use them for AI, reporting, or decision-making.

Bringing order to the chaos with Document AI 

Snowflake’s Document AI bridges the gap between documents and data. It uses Arctic-TILT LLM to extract information from unstructured content via natural language prompts, such as “What is the payment term?” or “When does the contract expire?” Document AI searches the uploaded files and writes structured outputs directly into Snowflake tables. 

The entire pipeline operates natively in Snowflake, eliminating the need for data movement or manual tagging. There’s no requirement to transfer data or manually tag fields; teams can automatically extract key fields from contracts, policies, invoices, and more, making the data immediately available for analytics, AI models, or BI dashboards. What used to take OCR, scripting, and manual entry can now be accomplished with a single prompt. 

From extraction to trust with Ataccama ONE

Document AI unlocks the data. Ataccama ONE makes it trusted. 

Once structured data is loaded into Snowflake tables, Ataccama ONE connects natively to profile, validate, and govern that data. The platform integrates data quality, observability, governance, lineage, and cataloguing in one single solution. This capability now extends to data extracted from documents. 

Ataccama ONE transforms extracted document data into governed, trusted assets. It enables teams to: 

• Profile and validate extracted document-derived data for accuracy and completeness.
• Apply automated quality checks to catch issues before they cascade. 
• Track lineage for structured outputs across analytics and AI workflows.
• Tag sensitive fields and enforce policy controls.

This process turns raw document outputs into governed, high-quality datasets. It also ensures traceability. While lineage applies to the structured tables (not the source files), document metadata like file name or source path can be embedded for transparency. 

Why this matters

Documents are rich with operational and strategic data that has often been out of reach. This integration brings that valuable information into workflows where it can be trusted, analyzed, and acted upon. 

Consider clauses in contracts, terms in policies, and totals in invoices. 

The integration between Document AI and Ataccama ONE turns that static content into governed, usable data that’s ready for: 

• Analytics and BI. A global manufacturing company can analyze supplier contract renewal trends across hundreds of facilities. Instead of manually reviewing PDFs, they can surface key terms like expiration dates and auto-renewal clauses, then visualize them in Power BI. 
• Compliance and risk. A regional insurer can extract and monitor compliance clauses across thousands of policy documents. If a critical term is missing or misworded, data quality rules in Ataccama flag the issue before it reaches a regulator. 
• AI and ML. A financial services team can enrich LLM pipelines with data extracted from quarterly earnings reports or investor disclosures. Because the data has already passed Ataccama’s quality and lineage checks, it meets internal model governance standards out of the box. 

Get started today

The Ataccama and Snowflake integration is available now via Snowflake Marketplace. See it in action at Snowflake Summit, June 2-5, 2025, or connect with our team to explore how we can help you unlock value from unstructured data with trust built in. 

Unstructured data doesn’t have to stay in the dark. With Ataccama and Snowflake, you can turn static documents into reliable, governed datasets that drive impact across the business.