How Private Capital Firms Are Unlocking New Value With Snowflake

As we kick off 2026, private capital firms are returning to a familiar challenge: how to do more with the platforms they already rely on. Your fund accounting systems remains a cornerstone for fund accounting, investor servicing, and performance tracking. But this year, more leaders are looking beyond core functionality and asking a bigger question.

At a broader level, this isn’t just about Investran or any single platform. It reflects how private capital firms are rethinking fund accounting as part of a larger data architecture. Fund accounting systems like Private Capital Suite (formerly Investran) remain the system of record for capital activity, NAVs, allocations, and investor balances. But as reporting volumes grow and data is increasingly consumed by finance, IR, and operations teams, firms are recognizing that the accounting system shouldn’t also be responsible for powering every downstream use case. Private Capital Suite already supports this approach through its existing Snowflake integration, leveraging Snowflake’s scalable architecture to handle the massive data demands of private markets while allowing analytics, reporting, and advanced use cases to run outside the core accounting platform.

With reporting expectations rising, LPs demanding real-time transparency, and dataflows growing more complex, the answer often lies not in replacing your platform, but in extending it.

Turn your accounting platform into a modern data engine that supports long-term goals without a disruptive rebuild.

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From System of Record to Strategic Data Layer

Investran (now FIS Private Capital Suite), along with other leading fund accounting platforms such as eFront, Allvue, LemonEdge, Dynamo and others, are widely trusted for core accounting and investor servicing. Across the industry, however, these systems are still most often used in a siloed way, as systems of record rather than platforms for insight. The opportunity in 2026 is to connect fund accounting into a broader, modern data stack that supports analytics, reporting, and decision-making across the firm. For many private capital managers, that journey starts with Snowflake.

Snowflake is already used by thousands of companies across the financial services industry. With its flexibility and scalability, it provides a cloud-native foundation for near real-time data access, integration, and analysis. Recent announcements, including new FIS Snowflake data pipelines for the Private Capital Suite, are making it easier than ever to connect Investran directly to Snowflake, with early results showing:

• Massive speedups in data loading & processing with ~50% drop in operational costs,

• Month-end reconciliations slashed from 12 days to ~1 day (90% reduction),

• And, approximately 7x faster data loading & processing

Think of Snowflake as the high way connecting Investran to the rest of your ecosystem. Investran remains your trusted source of truth, while Snowflake becomes the delivery engine, powering investor dashboards, automated reporting, analytics, and more.

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What This Integration Makes Possible

Integrating your fund accounting platform with Snowflake unlocks several tangible advantages. Firms cancentralize structured and unstructured data across fund systems and enable near real-time visibility for investor relations, finance, and operations teams. This architecture also allows analytics, Excel-based modeling, and even AI-driven forecasting to sit on top of clean, governed data, without compromising audit trails or compliance.

Services such as Chronograph’s Snowflake connectivity are making this integration easier by automating cashflow ingestion and replicating Investran datasets directly into Snowflake with minimal manual work. From there, teams can model NAV, IRR, contributions, and distributions using tools like dbt or SQL, and visualize results through platforms they already use, such as Power BI or Tableau.

The result is fewer reporting bottlenecks, reduced spreadsheet dependency, and better alignment around a single version of the truth.

Where to Start

At Alt360, we help asset managers take a practical path to modernization without forcing system replacements. If you’re setting 2026 priorities and want to get more from Investran, here are the three central questions that can help guide the conversation.

1. Where are your reporting pain points today?

We often begin with our Operational Healthcheck.  This assessment is designed to identify bottlenecks, whether they stem from ad hoc LP requests or recurring fund performance reporting.

2. Do your teams trust the data coming out of fund accounting platforms?

If your teams are constantly revalidating numbers or working around exports, it may be time to strengthen the underlying data architecture by using Snowflaketo establish a central data layer.  

3. Can you surface data across systems in near real time?

If not, a cloud-based platform like Snowflake can help bridge Investran, CRMs, spreadsheets, and bank feeds into a unified source of truth.

Why Alt360

We’re not here to push shiny objects. Our focus is on helping firms unlock more value from what they already have,  faster, and without major disruption. For Investran users, that typically includes:

• Running an Investran Healthcheck to assess data quality and usage patterns

• Mapping the reports and tables that matter most to stakeholders

• Establishing data pipelines via existing APIs like FIS’ Private Capital Suite or third-partytools like Chronograph

• Defining core metrics using SQL or dbt models

• Connecting dashboards through Power BI, Tableau, or Hex

• Putting the right controls in place for audit logging, sync timing, and permissions

The goal is simple: turn fund accounting into a real-time, analytics-ready data source that supports modern workflows without adding operational strain.

Let’s Build What’s Next

If 2026 is the year you want to move from legacy data pain to modern data gains, we’d love to help. Whether you’re evaluating Snowflake, rethinking investor reporting, or trying to reduce manual work, our team knows how to make Investran work harder, without starting from scratch.

Let’s talk about your current stack and how to unlock its full potential.