Exploring Workflow Data Fabric Home

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    Summary of Exploring Workflow Data Fabric Home

    Workflow Data Fabric Home is ServiceNow’s unified data foundation designed to connect enterprise data where it resides, govern it through stable contracts, and prepare it for use in workflows, analytics, and AI applications. It solves the common enterprise challenge of scattered data by enabling teams to discover, reuse, and govern data without rebuilding integrations or compromising data integrity.

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    The solution integrates multiple capabilities into a single platform, allowing users to efficiently manage data connections, create governed data products, and empower AI and workflow consumers with trusted data.

    Key Features

    • Now Assist for Workflow Data Fabric: An AI-guided entry point that helps users describe their needs and recommends whether to reuse existing data or connect new sources, directing them to the appropriate tools.
    • Connect Hub: Enables connection administrators to create and manage external system connections, configure credentials and authentication, set up metadata collectors, and grant access to Data Stewards.
    • Data Catalog: A self-service discovery layer where users browse and evaluate data products, interfaces, and other assets, complete with trust scores, lineage, and governance metadata to ensure data usability and compliance.
    • Data Workbench: The environment where Data Stewards create and manage Data Interfaces and Data Products, define mappings, set access controls, and publish or promote data assets.

    Roles and Responsibilities

    • Connection Admin: Manages external system connections and access permissions.
    • Data Steward: Owns and governs data products and interfaces, manages schemas and metadata, enforces backward compatibility, and oversees data contract lifecycle.
    • WDF Builder: Develops connectors and extensions to enhance connectivity without altering data contracts.
    • WDF Operator: Uses governed data within workflows, acting as consumers of data contracts without modifying them.
    • WDF Consumer: Discovers and evaluates data products in the catalog, requests access, and uses governed data for workflows, analytics, AI, or APIs.

    Benefits

    • Enables discovery and reuse of existing data connections, reducing redundant work.
    • Facilitates marketplace-style data asset exploration with trust scores, lineage, and semantic search.
    • Provides AI-guided recommendations to streamline data connection and use.
    • Supports complex data patterns including single table, JOIN, UNION, bi-directional synchronization, and aggregation.
    • Automates schema discovery, lineage building, and governance metadata enrichment via metadata collectors.
    • Delivers trusted, contextualized data consumable by AI agents and workflows safely and reliably.

    Next Steps

    To maximize Workflow Data Fabric Home, ServiceNow customers should explore configuration guides, learn to use Now Assist for WDF, connect external systems, and understand how to work with the Data Catalog and Data Products. These resources will help implement and leverage Workflow Data Fabric Home effectively for governed, reliable data integration and consumption.

    Workflow Data Fabric Home is ServiceNow's unified data foundation that connects enterprise data where it lives, governs it through stable contracts, and makes it ready for workflows, analytics, and AI.

    Workflow Data Fabric Home overview

    Workflow Data Fabric addresses a common enterprise challenge: Data is scattered across dozens of systems, integrations are rebuilt team by team, and AI agents lack the governed context they need to act reliably. Workflow Data Fabric Home addresses this challenge so that once data is connected and governed, any team can discover and reuse it without rebuilding pipelines or compromising data integrity.

    Now Assist for Workflow Data Fabric (WDF)

    The AI-guided entry point and parent interface for Workflow Data Fabric, powered by Now Assist for WDF. Describe what you need and Now Assist for WDF recommends whether to reuse existing data or connect a new source, and then routes you to the right place.

    Connect Hub

    Where Connection Admins create and manage connections to external systems. From Connect Hub, admins configure credentials and authentication, set up metadata collectors, and grant Data Stewards access to work with connected data.

    Data Catalog

    The self-service discovery layer where consumers browse and evaluate Data Products, Data Interfaces, and other cataloged assets. The Data Catalog displays trust scores, lineage, and governance metadata, enabling consumers to request access and confirm data usability before building on it.

    Data Workbench
    The interface in Workflow Data Fabric Home where Data Stewards create Data Interfaces and Data Products. The Data Workbench is also used to define mappings, set ACLs, and publish or promote assets.

    For more information, see Workflow Data Fabric Home navigation.

    Workflow Data Fabric Home users

    Table 1. Users
    User Description
    Connection Admin Creates and manages connections, configures credentials, sets up metadata collectors, and grants Data Stewards access to connections.
    Data Steward Creates and owns all Data products  and Data interfaces. Responsibilities include schema design, governance, metadata management, backward compatibility enforcement, and lifecycle management of all data contracts.
    WDF Builder Creates connectors, spokes, and MCP servers to extend the connectivity layer without owning or modifying data contracts.
    WDF Operator Builds deterministic and agentic workflows that consume governed data through Data Interfaces. WDF Operators are consumers of contracts, not owners or modifiers.
    WDF Consumer Explores the Data Catalog to discover data products, evaluates them for use, requests access, and uses governed data through workflows, analytics, AI agents, or APIs.
    For more information, see Workflow Data Fabric Home roles.

    Workflow Data Fabric Home benefits

    Table 2. Workflow Data Fabric benefits
    Benefit Feature Users
    Discover and reuse existing data connections. Data Catalog, Connect Hub All users
    Find data assets through marketplace-style browsing with trust scores, lineage, and semantic search. Data Catalog WDF Consumer, WDF Builder
    Get AI-guided recommendations. Now Assist for Workflow Data Fabric All users
    Package related Data Interfaces with business meaning, documentation, and governance metadata. Data Workbench, Data products WDF Consumer, Data Steward
    Support single table, JOIN, UNION, bi-directional synchronization, and aggregation patterns. Data Workbench, Data interfaces Data Steward
    Continuously discover schemas, build lineage, and enrich governance metadata without manual effort. Metadata collectors Data Steward, WDF Consumer
    Provide trusted, contextualized data that AI agents and workflows can safely consume. Data products, Metadata WDF Operator

    What to explore next

    To learn more about configuring and using Workflow Data Fabric Home, see: