Snowflake’s Openflow tackles AI’s toughest engineering challenge: Data ingestion at scale
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Summary
Snowflake has launched Openflow, a fully-managed data ingestion service that pulls any type of data from almost any source to streamline mobilising data for rapid AI deployment.
Powered by Apache NiFi, it uses connectors, either pre-built or customised, for Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud, with embedded governance and security.
Openflow currently supports more than 200 ready-to-use connectors, including Box, Google Ads, Microsoft SharePoint, Oracle, Salesforce Data Cloud, Workday and Zendesk.
Customers can use Openflow to unlock new AI use cases, such as a retailer unifying siloed data for personalised experiences and optimised operations.
Future developments will focus on moving events at scale and enabling real-time, agent-to-agent bi-directional communication between enterprise agents.