Building Data Pipelines in 8 Steps: A Concise Guide` focuses on the importance of data pipelines in today's data-driven business landscape. It explains how data pipelines ensure that comprehensive data sets can be accessed from a single location, making it easier for data analysts to work with complete data sets. The guide covers the key benefits of data pipelines, including data consolidation and storage, real-time reporting and analytics, improved performance, data governance and compliance assurance. To build a data pipeline, one must define goals and objectives, identify data sources, develop an effective data collection or ingestion strategy, design a data processing plan, select an appropriate data storage solution, define the data workflow, implement performance monitoring, and create user-friendly interfaces for end-users. The guide also highlights how modern tools like CData Sync can simplify the process of building data pipelines by automating tasks such as data source identification, data storage integration, and data workflow definition.