Why 50% of Your Team’s Time is Wasted (And How to Fix It)
Your data engineering team is drowning. While you’re investing heavily in AI and analytics to drive business growth, your engineers are spending half their time rewriting and maintaining pipelines instead of building new solutions. It’s a productivity crisis hiding in plain sight – and it’s costing your organisation more than you realise.
The statistics are stark: 90% of data-related work flows through engineering teams, yet 50% of their time vanishes into pipeline maintenance. Meanwhile, 85% of data leaders admit that making decisions with stale data has cost their company money. The very infrastructure meant to accelerate your data strategy is becoming its biggest bottleneck.
The Real-Time Revolution
The solution isn’t hiring more engineers or working longer hours, it’s fundamentally rethinking how data moves through your organisation. In our first of a new series of The Data Deep Dive webinars, we explored IBM’s game-changing StreamSets acquisition and demonstrated how real-time data integration is transforming operations across industries.
Watch our experts build a fraud detection system in under five minutes, processing thousands of transactions with geospatial analysis that flags suspicious activity within seconds. See how retailers are delivering personalised flash discounts based on browsing behaviour, turning website visitors into buyers through intelligent real-time responses.
This isn’t just about faster pipelines, it’s about strategic transformation. When Raj lands at a BART station and buys coffee, then purchases a newspaper a few blocks away 25 minutes later, the system instantly calculates whether this 2.5mph movement is reasonable. But when a transaction appears in Australia 93 seconds after his San Francisco purchase, the algorithm immediately flags fraud by comparing movement speed against commercial jet airspeeds.
That’s the power of embedded intelligence transforming operational data into business protection in real-time.
The webinar recording reveals how organisations are eliminating the maintenance burden through self-adjusting pipelines that adapt to changing data structures automatically. Discover IBM StreamSets’ 200+ pre-built connectors, data drift protection, and the programmatic Python SDK that’s helping enterprises scale without the traditional development overhead.
More importantly, learn how watsonx.data integration is creating a unified control plane that ends the era of juggling multiple tools for different data integration needs.
Watch the full webinar recording to see these solutions in action and discover how The Data Experts at Dot Group can help transform your data engineering from cost centre to competitive advantage.
Going Deeper: watsonx.data Integration
Ready for the complete picture? Join us for our next Data Deep Dive session on 2 July at 3pm GMT, where we’ll explore watsonx.data integration in detail. This comprehensive platform brings together ETL, streaming, replication, and data observability in a single control plane, eliminating the need to juggle multiple tools for different integration needs.
Register for the watsonx.data Integration Deep Dive webinar and discover how IBM’s unified approach is revolutionising data architecture.
Ready to eliminate pipeline maintenance overhead? Contact Dot Group to explore how these technologies can transform your data operations.