This reality emphasizes the importance of building reliable data pipelines that can ingest or stream vast amounts of data efficiently and ensure high data quality reliably and at scale. A unified platform and good data engineering are essential components of success in every analytics, business intelligence (BI) and AI initiative. With the right data engineering solution, organizations can turn their proprietary data into real business assets and, in reverse, leverage those business insights to build their applications as well as their agentic workflows.