Snowflake Launches Horizon Context With 18 Metadata Connectors
Global – October 27, 2026 -- Snowflake has put metadata connectors for 18 data, BI and pipeline sources into public preview as part of Horizon Context, a governed context layer inside Horizon Catalog designed to give AI agents and analysts shared business definitions.
Snowflake introduced the layer at Snowflake Summit. It collects metadata, enriches it with business meaning and exposes it to people, BI tools and AI agents. Snowflake's stated aim is to stop teams from rebuilding definitions, such as what counts as customer retention, for every new AI use case.
Connectors cover 18 sources including Power BI, Tableau and Databricks
The supported list spans databases, BI tools and data pipeline tools: Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Sigma, Hex, dbt, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Databricks and BigQuery. Depending on the connector and its configuration, Horizon Context collects schemas, query logs, dashboard definitions and usage signals.