Orchestrating the future of Retail

Here's how leading retailers use Apache Airflow^® and Astro to deliver personalized customer experiences, optimize operations, and drive growth through data.

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Data is your competitive advantage.

Retailers are converging on a focused set of data-driven priorities: secure modernization, AI at scale, real-time analytics, omnichannel execution, and back-office optimization. Unified orchestration turns these priorities into reliable, repeatable systems across clouds, tools, and teams.

Modernize for security, resilience, and what’s next.Retailers can’t defend critical operations or scale AI and omnichannel execution on brittle legacy stacks. Astro provides a unified, enterprise-grade orchestration layer with Remote Execution, governance, and production reliability, so teams modernize safely while building the foundation for growth.

Scale AI across retail operations with production-grade control.Every retailer pilots AI, but few operationalize it across stores, digital channels, and operations. Astro unifies data prep, training, inference, and agentic workflows with secure workflow automation, moving teams from fragile experiments to reliable, continuously improving AI systems.

Deliver real-time, trusted insights for every decision.Analytics initiatives fail when data arrives late and workflows sprawl across tools and teams. Astro orchestrates governed, real-time delivery across sources and platforms, while Astro Observe enforces SLAs, lineage, and data quality so leaders can trust dashboards, forecasts, and embedded intelligence.

Turn fragmented systems into seamless omnichannel experiences.Disconnected POS, e-commerce, loyalty, and service platforms break journeys and degrade personalization. Astro unifies pipelines across channels and teams, enabling real-time customer insight, secure activation, and consistent execution so experiences stay accurate, relevant, and reliable everywhere customers engage.

Optimize supply chain and workforce execution with data-driven operations.Retail performance depends on inventory accuracy, replenishment speed, fulfillment reliability, and labor efficiency. Astro orchestrates end-to-end operational workflows across ERP, WMS/TMS, suppliers, and stores, with event-driven triggers and observability to keep execution fast, predictable, and cost-efficient.

Transform your retail data operations.

Before Astro	After Astro
Scheduling sprawl across teams and tools	One unified orchestration platform with 2,100+ connectors to build, run, and observe critical pipelines and workflows
Managed services require access to sensitive data	Remote Execution keeps execution inside your environment
Legacy schedulers stall modernization	Cloud-native orchestration bridges mainframes and cloud platforms seamlessly
Brittle ETL scripts and manual jobs	Astro Runtime delivers hardened, production-ready Airflow images with RBAC and audit logging
Governance bolted on post-hoc	Policy-as-code pipelines enforce masking, logging, and validation at runtime
AI pilots fail to scale	Unified pipelines + 1,600 connectors operationalize AI across enterprise. Airflow 3.0 enables real-time, parallel inference at scale
Manual retraining processes	Event-driven retraining & inference automated in Airflow 3.0
Little data trust and limited insight into model explainability	Astro Observe tracks lineage, SLAs, and model performance in production
Slow and fragmented LLM workflows in silos	Airflow AI SDK enables agentic, multi-step, vectorized workflows
Batch analytics delay insights	Event-driven scheduling updates dashboards, fraud models, and risk systems as data changes

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