Has anyone come across Flow.BI? The tool looks to use AI smarts to simplify Data Vault model and pipeline development. I’m simply interested the views from this community on its capabilities.
It is a very interesting tool, I know that Michael Olschimke is involved so great expectations for this tool.
Hey @jhall_uk,
I joined the trainings and had some hands-on experience.
Flow.BI is a proper approach to dramatically changing the speed of integration in large (and very large) organisations. It plays its strengths in a huge number of systems, dealing with a shared set of business objects and ideally a number of shared business keys.
It’s driven by data, exactly, a single snapshot of all the sources (connected directly or via a lake). Metadata is used, too, but not mandatory, but data is mandatory.
Flow.BI generates the logical model, not a physical one. After absorbing the logical model from a SQL API, it’s the DWA tool’s job to make it a physical model.
Another approach I love is to absorb that logical model into a data catalog to establish a starting point for a business model (e.g., business Objects, their keys, relationships, and attributes).
I name Flow.BI’s result a “Pareto Vault”:80% of the best solution in 20% of the time.
And honestly: as human modelers, how much of the best solution do we achieve? Certainly not 100%. Maybe 80%-90% on the first attempt.
I’m looking forward to the way Flow.BI is changing our industry and yes, @RicardoGranados , Michael is the inventor and founder of Flow.BI.
If you like, watch my LinkedIn Post.
Warm regards
Volker
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