Yokohama Patch 5 includes what might be the most important release of the year: Workflow Data Fabric!
This is the engine behind the Workflow Data Networkโa real-time, zero-copy mesh connecting all your enterprise data resources!
๐นWorkflow Data Fabric Hub โ the product (connectors, tables, access control)
๐น Workflow Data Network โ the outcome (live, interconnected enterprise data)
Why this matters:
โ๏ธ Real-time access to ๐๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ, ๐๐ข๐ต๐ข๐ฃ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ๐ด, ๐๐ช๐จ๐๐ถ๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ, ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ญ๐ฆ, ๐๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ด๐ฉ๐ช๐ง๐ต...
โ๏ธ Powers ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ and workflows with live external data
โ๏ธ ๐๐จ ๐๐๐ญ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐งโquery directly from the source
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โ๏ธ Enables faster, cleaner ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง and ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ
Two types of connectors:
๐น Primary Connectors โ built and supported by ServiceNow (Snowflake, BigQueryโฆ)
๐น Community Connectors โ open-source, certified, but not officially supported (PostgreSQL, MongoDBโฆ)
This is a quiet shiftโbut foundational.
AI Agents donโt wait for ETL.
Workflows donโt syncโthey connect.
The data fabric is starting to form๐
Visual below shows connectors live in YP5... and is going to grow exponentially!
