Designing a modern data platform

A retail company is looking to build a data platform to help them better understand their business and customers. They want to be able to analyze data from various sources to gain insights that can drive their decision-making and improve their business operations. These are some of their requirements:

• Process real-time data from various sources
• Ingest structured/unstructured data, including transactional/clickstream/social media
• Cleanse/transform/enrich data for quality/consistency
• Secure data with access controls protections
• Run analytics to uncover insights on customer behavior/patterns