Orchestra joins Snowflake Partner Network, DarkTrace CEO steps down #49
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Orchestra joins the Snowflake Partner Network
Today we’re excited to share that Orchestra, the Unified Control Plane for Data Operations, has achieved Select Partner Status with Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company.
As an official Technology Partner, Orchestra will continue to develop its best-in-class workflow integration with Snowflake. Our integration represents a significant improvement to current plugins in workflow orchestration tools, and allow users to get complete visibility of end-to-end data pipelines that leverage Snowflake. Read more here.
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