# Functional use cases Functional use cases of Ylem represent how our framework for creating and running pipelines can be used for: * Streaming from different sources to different destinations * Data orchestration, filtering, cleaning, transforming, enriching, and ingestion * Various types of on-fly calculations, monitoring, and reporting


Streaming from Apache Kafka and messaging queues	streaming-from-apache-kafka-and-messaging-queues	Screenshot 2024-05-09 at 20.10.49.png
Streaming from APIs	streaming-from-apis	Screenshot 2024-05-09 at 20.09.12.png
Streaming from databases	streaming-from-databases	Screenshot 2024-05-09 at 20.42.09.png
Data orchestration, transformation and processing	data-orchestration-transformation-and-processing	Screenshot 2024-05-09 at 20.16.13.png
Usage of Python and Pandas	usage-of-python-and-pandas	Screenshot 2024-05-03 at 20.32.12.png
KPI Monitoring	kpi-monitoring	Screenshot 2024-05-03 at 14.04.49.png
OKRs and custom metrics	okrs-and-custom-metrics	Screenshot 2024-05-03 at 23.29.34.png
Data Issues & Incidents	data-issue-monitoring	Screenshot 2024-05-03 at 20.35.43.png
Reporting	reporting	Screenshot 2024-05-03 at 21.43.16.png
Other functional use-cases	other-functional-use-cases	Screenshot 2024-05-03 at 21.36.24.png

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