At its annual summit, Snowflake announced Openflow, a data ingestion service that can integrate any data type from virtually any data source.

Templates and wizards are included with the product that take data from existing sources, such as an Excel spreadsheet, and populate Visio charts. As data is changed, the chart is updated.

In a previous article, I looked at Grafana, a free, open-source data visualization ... real-time data with its dynamic dashboards. However, I recently discovered a plugin that has CSV support, so I ...