Omnata vs. Snowflake Openflow

Omnata
vs.
Snowflake Openflow

Omnata is a Snowflake Native App built ground-up for plug & play bi-directional integration between Snowflake and SaaS and databases. It is designed for the modern ELT paradigm, it's fast and easy to use, and has no infrastructure outside of Snowflake.

Openflow was recently added to Snowflake’s ecosystem as an add-on primarily to enable unstructured data ingestion. Openflow is a hosted version of the almost 20-year old Apache NiFi framework originally designed for point-to-point ETL flows.

Omnata delivers value over Openflow

Faster time to value

Get started in minutes from the marketplace with no product specific ETL skills required.

Easier to support and maintain

Clear error handling and troubleshooting so you know what's wrong with a sync straight away.

Better integrated with Snowflake and your stack

Omnata's native app architecture and stored procedure interface makes it interoperable with the rest of your pipelines, tools and Snowflake AI.

Omnata is simply easier

Feature

Features comparison

Omnata Sync

Snowflake Openflow

No cloud infrastructure or containers required

No cloud infrastructure or containers required

Omnata

Openflow

No cloud infrastructure or containers required

Omnata

Openflow

Faster cyber-security approvals

Faster cyber-security approvals

Omnata

Openflow

Faster cyber-security approvals

Omnata

Openflow

Plug & Play connectors

Plug & Play connectors

Omnata

Openflow

Plug & Play connectors

Omnata

Openflow

Automated sync strategies

Automated sync strategies

Omnata

Openflow

Automated sync strategies

Omnata

Openflow

Easy to use UI

Easy to use UI

Omnata

Openflow

Easy to use UI

Omnata

Openflow

Flexible git-style config branching

Flexible git-style config branching

Omnata

Openflow

Flexible git-style config branching

Omnata

Openflow

Integrate with your stack

Integrate with your stack

Omnata

Openflow

Integrate with your stack

Omnata

Openflow

A more native architecture

Fewer moving pieces, less to manage, faster cyber-approval

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Product news

Follow the blog for the latest Omnata Sync product releases

Got a troublesome sync? Just ask CoCo!

The Omnata Sync Administration Skill turns Snowflake Cortex into an expert on your sync installation — guided diagnosis from first symptom to resolved or escalated, free on GitHub.

New features

| Cortex Code

Apr 24, 2026

Watch: How to use config branching in Omnata

This post links you to two videos of common branching use cases; single Snowflake account to multiple target environments, and across multiple Snowflake accounts and target environments.

Snowflake

| Analytics

Apr 14, 2026

Simplify ERP data ingestion to Snowflake

Omnata now connects Infor Data Lake, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, and Dynamics 365 F&O to Snowflake natively — no monthly active row costs, no middleware & no external infrastructure.

Snowflake

| Analytics

Mar 25, 2026

UPDATE: Multi-file syncs for Google Sheets (free)

The Omnata Google Sheets Plugin now syncs multiple files from a Google Drive folder using a filename pattern — natively, inside your Snowflake account and it's completely free to use.

Snowflake

| Analytics

Mar 19, 2026

New feature: Deploy syncs across multiple Snowflake accounts

Omnata's new Multi-Snowflake Account Support lets you deploy and manage syncs across fully separate Snowflake accounts using your existing source control or build tools.

New features

| Product updates

Mar 16, 2026

Natively ingest from Dynamics 365 apps into Snowflake

The Omnata Dynamics 365 Synapse Link Plugin ingests your Dynamics Application data into Snowflake natively — automatic schema mapping, incremental sync, no external infrastructure.

New features

| Plugins

Mar 2, 2026

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