Modern needs of Big data consumption require data integration before data actually hit the business intelligence tools. This includes leveraging complex and unstructured data and enables raw data to flow securely through business. Today, even the smallest companies produce huge amount of data across systems which need to communicate with each other and therefore requires a platform to pipe all these data sources into Data Lakes.

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