# Use cases

Ylem is an industry-agnostic data streaming software that multiple departments inside an organization can benefit from.

Therefore our functionality covers a broad variety of business use cases. We split them into three groups to simplify your access to the best practice ones you are looking for to solve your challenge:

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Many of these use cases are also available in our [library of templates](https://docs.ylem.co/pipelines/library-of-templates) in the product and you can re-use them to build your pipelines.