Collate vs. ServiceNow Workflow Data Fabric

Collate is the AI-for-Data platform and the company behind OpenMetadata, the open context layer for AI. It gives data teams and AI agents the context, business meaning, and organizational memory needed to understand and use enterprise data consistently. Collate automates the recurring work required to keep data documented, tested, and governed, while grounding AI in the context needed to produce more accurate answers with fewer tokens.  More than 4,000 organizations worldwide, including OpenAI, Yelp, Experian, and Airbus, run their production data and AI workloads on Collate and OpenMetadata.

Workflow Data Fabric is the AI‑ready data foundation of the ServiceNow AI Platform. It connects to any data—structured, unstructured, and streaming—contextualizes it with business meaning and governance, and controls it with lineage and policies so employees and AI agents can confidently act on real‑time information to prevent disruptions, resolve requests faster, and optimize operations—all on one platform.