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Prefect Creates Open Source Committee to Oversee the Growth of Marvin, Welcomes Jason Liu as Core Team Member

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Thursday, August 24, 2023

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In line with this announcement, Prefect welcomes Jason Liu , former machine learning engineer at StitchFix and author of the popular openai-function-calling library, as a community member of the Marvin Core Team.

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In line with this announcement, Prefect welcomes Jason Liu , former machine learning engineer at StitchFix and author of the popular openai-function-calling library, as a community member of the Marvin Core Team.
Jason's track record of building AI products and expertise in AI and machine learning will be a significant asset to Marvin's direction and growth.
"The more I've worked with the Marvin team at Prefect, the more I find myself recommending Marvin to startups looking to adopt LLMs.
"Jason has been such a great thought partner in Marvin's growth and user adoption," said Adam Azzam, AI Product Lead at Prefect.

Prefect Appoints Adam Azzam as AI Product Lead

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Thursday, June 15, 2023

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WASHINGTON, June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Prefect Technologies, Inc, makers of the popular open-source Prefect orchestration platform, today announced the appointment of Adam Azzam, PhD as the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Product Lead. Azzam's appointment demonstrates Prefect's commitment to advancing the field of AI and empowering developers and engineers with user-friendly tools and frameworks. His expertise in working with Large Language Models (LLMs) and passion for making complex technologies more accessible align perfectly with Prefect's philosophy of democratizing access to powerful tools.

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Company solidifies strategy and direction for AI initiatives, including oversight of Marvin, its open source library for building AI-powered software
WASHINGTON, June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Prefect Technologies, Inc , makers of the popular open-source Prefect orchestration platform, today announced the appointment of Adam Azzam, PhD as the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Product Lead.
At Prefect, Azzam will assume leadership of Marvin , an open-source Python framework for building AI-powered software.
Azzam will further collaborate with the Prefect product team to identify additional opportunities for leveraging AI within the Prefect roadmap to create personalized experiences for developers.
Adam co-founded Openrole AI and served as CTO, productionalizing language models to build an AI career co-pilot for professionals.

Prefect Earns Recognition as a Favorable Employer With Multiple Awards in 2023

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Tuesday, May 2, 2023

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WASHINGTON, May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Prefect Technologies, Inc, the open-source orchestration platform, has been recognized as an optimal and attractive place to work, having received three awards thus far in 2023 for workplace culture and experience, and a stellar leadership team.

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To start, Prefect earned recognition on Forbes' fifth annual list of America's Best Startup employers .
This year, 97% of Prefect employees said it's a great place to work – 40 points higher than the average U.S. company.
The Moxie Awards are dedicated to celebrating women's contributions — skills, leadership and accomplishments — to their workplaces, communities and industries.
"At Prefect we prioritize making new employees feel welcome from day one with intensive onboarding and continue to support them throughout their journey at Prefect.

Prefect Launches its Premier Consulting Program

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Tuesday, January 31, 2023

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Prefect Technologies, Inc, the company behind the open-source data workflow automation platform Prefect, today announced its Premier Consulting Program. The Premier Consulting Program is a unique opportunity to recognize and collaborate with trusted consulting firms, integrators, and data services providers to help Prefect users deploy and scale Prefect across the modern data stack.

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The Premier Consulting Program is a unique opportunity to recognize and collaborate with trusted consulting firms, integrators, and data services providers to help Prefect users deploy and scale Prefect across the modern data stack.
The Prefect Premier Consulting Program recognizes consulting firms that display significant expertise in implementing Prefect for their clients.
"The Prefect Premier Consulting Program will give us the resources we need to help even more clients extend their analytics and data management practices."
This Prefect Premier Consulting Program is a natural extension to the company's acquisition of SLATE , one of the premier data engineering consultancies, in October 2021.

2023 Prefect Associate Certification Course (PACC) Dates Announced for Data Practitioners and Professionals

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Tuesday, January 10, 2023

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Prefect Technologies, Inc, the company behind the open-source data workflow automation platform Prefect, today announced upcoming dates for its Prefect Associate Certification Course (PACC). In this two-day course, participants learn how to orchestrate and observe their dataflows—saving their organizations time, money, and complexity. By attending the course, participants will obtain their Prefect Associate Certification.

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In 2022, Prefect held four certification courses in the United States, educating over 100 data practitioners.
In 2023, Prefect will expand PACC to an international audience with PACC-London in June.
"The best part about the Prefect Associate Certification Course is the tangible takeaways we've seen participants leave with: solutions they can implement immediately.
Our goal is to provide a space for new and existing Prefect users to build meaningful relationships in the data community.

Prefect Brings Dataflow Automation to Databricks

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Thursday, August 18, 2022

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Prefect Technologies, Inc., the company behind the open-source data workflow automation platform Prefect, today announced its partnership with Databricks, the Data and AI company, to provide data engineers, data scientists and analytics engineers the ability to automate dataflows for even the most data-intensive organizations and applications.

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For users migrating to Databricks, Prefect allows them to work with tools across the data stack and operate across multiple infrastructures simultaneously.
The Prefect and Databricks partnership is driven by the companies' shared vision to provide engineers with flexibility and open-source support.
"Databricks' validation of Prefect's technology also helps further our growth as the leading dataflow automation platform."
Prefect is a dataflow automation platform that enables data engineers to build, automatically run, and monitor complex pipelines at scale.

Prefect and Gradient Flow Report Reveals Rising Need for Workflow Orchestration as Companies Modernize the Data Stack

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Tuesday, May 17, 2022

WASHINGTON, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Prefect Technologies, Inc., the company that produces the open-source data workflow automation platform Prefect, today announced the release of a new report by leading data and AI consulting firm Gradient Flow titled the "2022 State of Workflow Orchestration." Sponsored by Prefect, the survey report reveals a growing demand for workflow orchestration solutions, which is being driven by ongoing company initiatives to modernize their data infrastructures and enhance datasets for machine learning (ML) and AI models. Data professionals at these organizations are looking to orchestrators to help write, schedule, monitor, and manage their data and ML pipelines.

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Sponsored by Prefect, the survey report reveals a growing demand for workflow orchestration solutions, which is being driven by ongoing company initiatives to modernize their data infrastructures and enhance datasets for machine learning (ML) and AI models.
For the report, Gradient Flow surveyed 581 respondents from a variety of industries, with roles including data scientists and analysts, data and ML engineers, software engineers and developers, and DevOps engineers.
When asked about their primary use cases for workflow orchestration, 29% of respondents all cited data science, making it the most popular application of workflow orchestration.
For these respondents, data movement (21%), MLOps (16%), and data transformation (14%) were their top use cases for orchestration.

Prefect Notes Correction to Press Release Regarding Partnership with Snowflake

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Tuesday, May 3, 2022

The original press release stated that Prefect and Snowflake joint customer tastytrade has over 4,000 online trading accounts.

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The original press release stated that Prefect and Snowflake joint customer tastytrade has over 4,000 online trading accounts.
This correction does not change any other information reported in the original press release in regards to the partnership between Prefect and Snowflake.
Prefect Technologies, Inc. , the company behind the open-source data workflow automation platform Prefect, today announced a partnership with Snowflake, the Data Cloud company.
As part of the partnership, Prefect has enhanced its integration with Snowflake to leverage the latest APIs and offer enterprise authentication functionality for both Prefect 1.0 and Prefect Cloud.

Prefect and Snowflake Partner to Bring Dataflow Automation to the Enterprise

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Thursday, April 28, 2022

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Prefect enables Snowflake customers to automatically populate, extract, and analyze data on top of Snowflake more easily and reliably for faster time to insight.

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Prefect enables Snowflake customers to automatically populate, extract, and analyze data on top of Snowflake more easily and reliably for faster time to insight.
As part of the partnership, Prefect has enhanced its integration with Snowflake to leverage the latest APIs and offer enterprise authentication functionality for both Prefect 1.0 and Prefect Cloud.
Prefect and Snowflake will continue to work together to support their evolving platforms, including Prefect's next generation dataflow automation platform, Prefect 2.0 .
Prefect is a dataflow automation platform for data engineers to build, automatically run, and monitor complex pipelines at any scale.

Prefect Raises $11.5M in Series A Funding to Eliminate Negative Engineering in Dataflow Automation

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Tuesday, February 9, 2021

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The funding will enable Prefect to continue innovating its open-core platform, hire world-class engineers, and scale its operations and go-to-market efforts.

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The funding will enable Prefect to continue innovating its open-core platform, hire world-class engineers, and scale its operations and go-to-market efforts.
Prefect is dedicated to eliminating negative engineering: the frustrating but often necessary work to ensure data pipelines operate as expected.
"As the data scientist community evolves, I am confident Prefect will establish itself as the gold standard for dataflow automation."
Today's news will help Prefect focus on scaling its fast-growing open source software while empowering the expansion of Prefect Cloud across the enterprise.