Data Engineering and Platforms

Engineering enterprise data platforms: lakehouse implementation.

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Data Engineering:
The foundation every AI and analytics investment runs on.

With twenty years of engineering inside data platforms and SQL engines, Sundew builds the lakehouses, warehouses, streaming pipelines, and unstructured data foundations that turn fragmented enterprise data into a governed, AI-ready asset. SQL and PySpark at enterprise depth. Open table formats by default. Delivered on Databricks, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, and Microsoft Fabric.

Data Engineering Challenges Holding Enterprises Back.

Mid-market organizations and large enterprises confront a shared strategic challenge: fragmented, unverified, and AI-unready data operating at different scales.

While mid-market firms navigate ungoverned SaaS sprawl and inconsistent standards, global enterprises contend with monolithic legacy silos and decades of technical debt.

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Data trapped in silos nobody can join.

Mid-market: dozens of SaaS tools each holding a slice of the truth, with no common keys or standards. Enterprise: decades of legacy warehouses, marts, and regional systems never designed to be joined. In both cases, the question leadership asks on Monday cannot be answered before Friday.

Batch pipelines feeding
decisions that needed real-time.

Nightly ETL was fine when reports were monthly. It fails when fraud detection, inventory, campaign optimization, and customer experience need data that is minutes old. Businesses running on yesterday's data make yesterday's decisions.

Full reloads burning
compute and breaking SLAs.

Pipelines that reload entire tables every night burn compute budgets and blow past processing windows as volumes grow. Without incremental loading and change data capture, the job that took two hours at launch takes nine in year three, and the morning dashboard is empty when leadership opens it.

Unstructured data
sitting unused while AI waits.

Documents, PDFs, images, call transcripts, and logs hold the majority of enterprise information, and almost none of it is engineered for use. Every AI initiative needing retrieval or semantic search stalls because the unstructured data was never processed into a governed foundation.

Warehouse platforms
aging while the lakehouse era arrives.

Legacy warehouses built for structured, batch, BI-only workloads cannot serve the combined analytics and AI demand of 2026. The lakehouse pattern, one governed platform for structured and unstructured data, batch and streaming, BI and ML, has become the standard, and estates that have not moved pay more to deliver less.

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What Sundew delivers in Data Engineering.

Sundew is a data-first engineering partner with certified engineers who have spent twenty years working inside SQL engines and distributed data platforms. We engineer in SQL and PySpark at enterprise depth, build on open table formats by default, and deliver across Databricks, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, and Microsoft Fabric.

Data Lakehouse

Sundew implements lakehouse architectures on Databricks, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, and Microsoft Fabric, built on open table formats, Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg, so the platform stays portable across engines and clouds. Medallion architecture progressively refines raw data through bronze, silver, and gold layers, so every dataset that reaches a dashboard or an AI model carries provable lineage and quality.

Lakehouse
Architecture and Design

Platform selection and architecture across Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, and Microsoft Fabric, grounded in your workloads, your team, and your cloud estate, not in a vendor default.

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Open Table Formats:
Delta Lake and Iceberg

Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg implemented as the storage foundation, with ACID transactions, schema evolution, time travel, and cross-engine portability engineered in from day one.

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Medallion Architecture

Bronze, silver, and gold layers that progressively refine raw data into business-ready datasets, with data quality enforced at every promotion and lineage traceable to source.

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Governance and Catalog

Unity Catalog, Snowflake Horizon, or Microsoft Purview implemented for access control, lineage, discovery, and audit, so the lakehouse is governed from the first table, not retrofitted later.

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Data Warehouse

Modernize the warehouse without losing the two decades of business logic inside it. Sundew migrates and modernizes legacy warehouses, on-premises SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata, and aging cloud marts, onto modern platforms, refactoring the SQL, stored procedures, and semantic logic that the business actually runs on. Twenty years inside SQL engines means we read the legacy estate fluently and translate it faithfully, so the numbers leadership trusts still reconcile after the move.

Warehouse Migration
and Replatforming

Legacy warehouse estates migrated to Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, or Fabric with schema conversion, SQL refactoring, and dual-running validation so results reconcile before cutover.

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SQL Engineering at Depth

Complex stored procedures, views, and semantic layers refactored by engineers who have spent twenty years inside SQL engines, preserving business logic while modernizing the platform.

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Dimensional
and Semantic Modeling

Star schemas, semantic models, and metrics layers engineered so the KPI the CFO reads is defined once, governed centrally, and consistent across every dashboard and tool.

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Performance
and Cost Engineering

Partitioning, clustering, materialization, and warehouse right-sizing engineered so queries return in seconds and the monthly platform bill stays defensible.

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Streaming and Real-Time Data

From nightly batch to always-current. Sundew engineers streaming pipelines that move data from source systems into the lakehouse in seconds, so fraud detection, inventory, personalization, and campaign dashboards run on data that is minutes old, not a day old. Structured Streaming on PySpark, Kafka and event-hub ingestion, and exactly-once delivery semantics engineered for production reliability, not just for the demo.

Streaming Ingestion Pipelines

Apache Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, AWS Kinesis, and Google Pub/Sub ingestion engineered into Delta and Iceberg tables with exactly-once semantics and schema enforcement.

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PySpark Structured Streaming

Real-time transformation and enrichment on Spark Structured Streaming, engineered in PySpark by teams who run it in production, with watermarking, stateful processing, and late-data handling.

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Real-Time Analytics Serving

Streaming aggregates served to dashboards and applications with sub-minute freshness, replacing the nightly batch that made every morning report a day late.

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Operational Monitoring and Recovery

Pipeline observability, dead-letter handling, replay, and automated recovery engineered in, so a stream that breaks at 2 a.m. heals without paging the business.

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Incremental Loading / Change Data Capture

Process only what changed. Sundew engineers incremental loading and change data capture so pipelines move deltas, not full tables, cutting compute cost, shrinking processing windows, and keeping data fresh without burning the budget. The pipeline that reloads a hundred million rows nightly becomes one that merges the fifty thousand that changed, and the SLA that was slipping holds again.

Change Data
Capture Engineering

Log-based CDC from operational databases, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, into the lakehouse via Debezium, native connectors, and platform-native CDC, with ordering and consistency guaranteed.

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Incremental Merge Patterns

MERGE-based upserts on Delta Lake and Iceberg, slowly changing dimensions, and watermark-driven incremental loads engineered in SQL and PySpark for correctness under concurrency.

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Pipeline Cost Optimization

Full-reload pipelines converted to incremental, cutting compute consumption and bringing processing windows back inside SLA as data volumes grow.

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Backfill and Reconciliation

Safe historical backfills and automated reconciliation checks, row counts, checksums, and distribution comparisons, so incremental correctness is proven, not assumed.

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Unstructured Data Engineering

The majority of enterprise information is unstructured, and almost none of it is engineered for use. Sundew builds the pipelines that turn documents, PDFs, images, call transcripts, emails, and logs into governed, queryable, AI-ready data. Parsing, chunking, embedding, and vector indexing engineered as production pipelines, not notebooks, so retrieval-augmented generation and semantic search run on current, complete content.

Document
and Content Pipelines

Automated ingestion, parsing, and extraction across PDFs, Office documents, images, and scanned content, engineered in PySpark for volume and in production for reliability.

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Vector and
Embedding Pipelines

Chunking strategies, embedding generation, and vector indexing on Databricks Vector Search, pgvector, and platform-native stores, refreshed continuously as source content changes.

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Text, Audio
and Log Engineering

Call transcripts, support conversations, clickstreams, and machine logs structured into analyzable datasets that feed both BI and AI workloads.

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Governance for
Unstructured Data

PII detection and redaction, access control, and lineage applied to unstructured pipelines, so the content feeding your AI carries the same governance as your structured estate.

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SAP Business Data Cloud.

SAP BDC: Helping you to bring your SAP data into the lakehouse era, without breaking the business semantics.

SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC) eliminates the cost and lost context of traditional SAP data extraction by delivering managed, semantics-intact data products on a Databricks-integrated lakehouse. Sundew architects the strategy and engineering roadmap to seamlessly modernize your SAP data estate.

  • 01

    SAP BDC
    Adoption Strategy

    Assessment of your SAP estate, ECC, S/4HANA, BW, and the roadmap from legacy extraction patterns to BDC-managed data products, sequenced against your S/4HANA and analytics timelines.

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    SAP Databricks and
    Lakehouse Integration

    SAP data products landed into the lakehouse with semantics preserved, joined with non-SAP data on Delta Lake and Iceberg, so finance, supply chain, and operations finally analyze as one estate.

  • 03

    BW and Legacy
    Extraction Modernization

    Aging BW estates and custom extraction pipelines modernized onto the BDC pattern, retiring brittle interfaces while preserving the business logic embedded across decades.

  • 04

    SAP plus Non-SAP
    Unified Analytics

    The unified view enterprises have chased for years: SAP financials and operations joined with CRM, e-commerce, and marketing data in one governed lakehouse, feeding BI and AI together.

SAP data with its semantics intact, in the samelakehouse as everything else. That is the unlock enterprises have waited a decade for.

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Engineered on every major data platform.

Sundew delivers data engineering across the four platforms that define the enterprise data landscape, with the platform choice grounded in your workloads, your team, and your cloud estate.

20yrs

Inside SQL engines and data platforms

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Platforms: Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, Microsoft Fabric

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Open table formats by default: Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg

Engineered on every major data platform.

Data engineering with sector context built in.

Twenty years of data work across regulated and high-velocity industries means Sundew engineers arrive knowing the data shapes, the compliance constraints, and the questions leadership asks in your sector.

Healthcare

Healthcare

Compliance and regulation aligned pipelines across EMR, claims, and patient-engagement data. De-identification, consent-aware access, and analytics that respect the regulatory boundary.

Insurance and Warranty

Insurance and Warranty

Policy, claims, and contract data unified across admin systems. Claims-cycle analytics, reserve accuracy, and the fraud signals that only surface when systems are joined.

Telecom

Telecom

Network events, usage records, and customer data at telecom volume. Streaming pipelines for churn signals, network quality, and revenue assurance.

Retail and E-commerce

Retail and E-commerce

Product, inventory, transaction, and clickstream data unified for demand forecasting, personalization, and real-time merchandising at peak-season scale.

Food Services

Food Services

Multi-site POS, supply chain, workforce, and sustainability data unified into operational dashboards and client-facing reporting across every location.

Performance Marketing

Performance Marketing

Campaign performance pipelines unifying ad platform, attribution, and conversion data, so spend, creative, and audience decisions run on same-day signal, not end-of-month exports.

Data engineering is the
connective engine of Sundew’s practice.

It unifies your entire architecture, ingesting SaaS and ERP data via Enterprise Integrations, drawing from modernized Azure operational databases, and delivering governed, AI-ready pipelines into Agentic AI models and BI dashboards.

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