Informatica unveiled new innovations for the Snowflake Data Cloud: Native SQL ELT to deliver better performance for data pipeline workloads and provide access to 250+ native Snowflake functions and a Blueprint for enterprise-gradegenerative AI application development for Snowflake Cortex AI based on a foundation of rich metadata, trusted data and no-code orchestration. The announcements were made at Informatica World currently underway in Las Vegas. Native SQL ELT for Snowflake takes advantage of the scale and compute power on the Snowflake Data Cloud and allows customers to develop ELT pipelines guaranteed to run on Snowflake compute for better performance.

With a simple and intuitive interface, Native SQL ELT supports 250+ Snowflake specific functions - and easily supports new Snowflake commands as they become available - directly from the Intelligent Data Management CloudTM (IDMC) platform. Native SQL ELT is now generally available. Blueprint for Enterprise-Grade Generative AI Applications with Cortex AI provides customers with a template architecture to developgenerative AI applications that are contextualized with enterprise metadata, grounded with high-quality, trusted data and scaled through no-code development and orchestration.

The blueprint combines Snowflake's Cortex AI generative AI service with key IDMC services including Cloud Data Integration, Cloud Data Quality, Cloud Data Cataloging and Governance, Cloud Data Access Management, Master Data Management and Cloud Application Integration orchestration delivering a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) solution that grounds generative AI applications with trusted data and metadata while ensuring appropriate data access controls.