Snowflake launches Openflow to help businesses manage data in the age of AI

Weiquan Lin Data is the fuel behind the AI revolution -- the foundational building block for the new technological world order. But data is immaterial, difficult to organize, and subject to an ever-growing mountain of walled gardens and regulatory decrees. Businesses seeking to harness AI, therefore, often struggle to make the most of their data, this most vital of resources. Enter Snowflake. At its annual Snowflake Summit user conference, the company announced the release of Openflow, a new service designed to integrate businesses' data into a single, unified, and intelligible channel. Like disparate streams flowing into a single river, Openflow takes the whole of a company's data -- structured, unstructured, batch, and streaming -- and collects them in such a way that they can be more easily visualized and leveraged. Also: AI doesn't have to be a job-killer. How some businesses are using it to enhance, not replace The platform is also intended to simplify the process of creating ... Read full article.