May 20, 2025 — Snowflake Openflow — Preview

Snowflake announces the preview of Snowflake Openflow, an integration service that connects any data source and any destination with hundreds of processors supporting structured and unstructured text, images, audio, video and sensor data. Built on Apache NiFi, Openflow lets you run a fully managed service in your own cloud for complete control.

Use Openflow if you are looking to fetch data from any source and put it in any destination with minimal management, coupled with Snowflake’s built-in data security and governance.

Some of the use cases of Openflow are as follows:

  • Ingest data from unstructured data sources, such as Google Drive and Box, and make it ready for chat in your AI assistants with Snowflake Cortex or use the data for your own custom processing.

  • Replicate the change data capture (CDC) of database tables into Snowflake for comprehensive, centralized reporting

  • Ingest real-time events from streaming services, such as Apache Kafka, into Snowflake for near real-time analytics

  • Ingest data from SaaS platforms, such as LinkedIn Ads, to Snowflake for reporting, analytics and insights

  • Create your own data flow using Snowflake and NiFi processors and controllers.

To get started with Openflow, see About Openflow.

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