# About the Snowflake connector

> Snowflake is a web-based data warehousing platform. With the UiPath Connector for Snowflake you can bring advanced automation
capabilities to every step of your enterprise data processing and management.

Snowflake is a web-based data warehousing platform. With the UiPath Connector for Snowflake you can bring advanced automation
capabilities to every step of your enterprise data processing and management.

## Authentication

Before automating processes, you need to establish a connection with your Snowflake instance. Step-by-step instructions are
available in the [Snowflake authentication](https://docs.uipath.com/integration-service/automation-cloud/latest/user-guide/uipath-snowflake-snowflake-authentication#snowflake-authentication) page.

## Events

The Snowflake connector supports events via polling. More information about the
events supported for the Snowflake connector is available in the [Snowflake events](https://docs.uipath.com/integration-service/automation-cloud/latest/user-guide/uipath-snowflake-snowflake-events#snowflake-events) page.

## Provider documentation

The UiPath connector is compatible with the Snowflake JDBC driver. For details, refer to [JDBC Driver API support](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/jdbc/jdbc-api).

## Activity package

You can use the connection to enable the [Snowflake activities](https://docs.uipath.com/activities/other/latest/integration-service/uipath-snowflake-snowflake-activities) in UiPath® Studio and build automations for the entire Snowflake capabilities suite.