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Capital One Software, the enterprise B2B software business of Capital One, today announced intelligent optimization features for Capital One Slingshot, designed to improve performance and quickly detect and resolve data infrastructure issues. By utilizing context across a user's environment, Slingshot will identify opportunities to improve workload performance in Snowflake that go beyond basic SQL syntax and storage costs.
Context-Aware AI Query Optimization automatically identifies top queries and generates AI-powered recommendations.
Context-Aware AI Table Optimization analyzes top 50 tables by query impact and validates proposed changes.
Duplicate Pipeline Detection uses AI to identify redundant pipelines by comparing patterns of data usage.
Data Explorer provides interactive drill-down analytics across accounts, users, query hashes, and service types.
Features reflect shift from tuning individual resources to optimizing entire system including code, pipelines, infrastructure, and teams.
Capital One has $475.8 billion in deposits and $669 billion in total assets.
"Enterprise data infrastructure is a complex web of inter-dependencies that requires a context-first approach for optimization at scale," said Jeff Chou, VP, Slingshot Product Management, Capital One Software. "Slingshot's intelligent optimization capabilities can help businesses understand what their queries are actually doing, what their tables are built for, and where their teams are unknowingly duplicating work. That's how we help enterprises get efficient at the system level."
These features reflect a fundamental shift in how enterprises can approach data efficiency: not just tuning individual resources in isolation, but understanding and optimizing the entire system, including code, pipelines, infrastructure and the teams running them.
Context-Aware AI Query Optimization: Enterprise Snowflake environments generate staggering query volumes that no team can manually evaluate at scale. Slingshot will automatically identify top queries by cost, runtime, and frequency in Snowflake environments. It will generate AI-powered optimization recommendations that surface clear, actionable steps and project cost and runtime improvements for both Snowflake admins and data engineers.
Context-Aware AI Table Optimization: Query inefficiency often doesn't stem from the query itself, but from poorly configured tables. Slingshot's Table Optimization capability will analyze the top 50 tables by query impact and surface multi-dimensional infrastructure fixes. Slingshot will also validate that proposed table changes will not negatively impact the top queries already running against that table, before surfacing the recommendation.
Duplicate Pipeline Detection: Large enterprises have full pipelines that are unknowingly redundant. Slingshot's AI-powered duplicate pipeline detection will identify these redundancies by looking at common patterns of data usage to find potential overlap. Slingshot uses AI to compare many potentially-similar workloads to evaluate functional equivalence.
Data Explorer: This interactive, drill-down analytics interface will allow data teams to investigate root causes. Users can interactively slice Snowflake costs across various dimensions (accounts, users, query hashes, Slingshot tags, service types) with synchronized filtering. Drill-downs offer rich object detail pages for individual warehouses, databases, and queries, collapsing the gap between cost visibility and actionable change. Data rich before-and-after impact analysis pages provide historical context for any changes made to a Warehouse.
Events
Learn more about the latest Slingshot innovations by visiting Capital One Software at these upcoming events:
Booth #1211 at Snowflake Summit, June 1-4, 2026 in San Francisco, CA
Booth #223 at Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit, June 1-3, 2026 in National Harbor, MD
About Capital One Software
Capital One Software, the enterprise B2B software business of Capital One, enables organizations to scale their data management capabilities and better harness the power of AI. Backed by 25 years of data innovation, Capital One Software solutions are helping customers overcome key data management challenges in the cloud, including cost performance, infrastructure management, and data security. Capital One Software is based in McLean, Virginia, at Capital One's headquarters.
About Capital One
Capital One Financial Corporation is a leading technology-based financial services company with $475.8 billion in deposits and $669.0 billion in total assets as of December 31, 2025. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, the company operates as a premier global payments provider and diversified financial institution, delivering a broad suite of products and consumer lifestyle and shopping experiences through its Credit Card, Consumer Banking including its Global Payment Network, and Commercial Banking lines of business.
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