# Overview

## 🔄 What is a data pipeline?

A data pipeline is a series of operations executed sequentially or simultaneously, where the output of one operation is the input of the next one:

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Tailer Platform data pipeline operations allow you to connect data sources, consolidate and normalize your data, store them, and feed different tools to obtain analytics, reports and dashboards.

## 🔢 Types of data pipeline operations

Tailer Platform offers the following types of data pipeline operations:

* [Storage to Storage](https://docs.tailer.ai/data-pipeline-operations/move-files-with-storage-to-storage): Move files from one storage to another
* [API to Storage](https://docs.tailer.ai/data-pipeline-operations/stream-incoming-data-with-api-to-storage): Stream incoming data into a storage
* [XML to CSV](https://docs.tailer.ai/data-pipeline-operations/xml-conversion): Convert complex XML file into a set of CSV files
* [Storage to Tables](https://docs.tailer.ai/data-pipeline-operations/load-data-with-storage-to-tables): Load data into BigQuery tables
* [Tables to Tables](https://docs.tailer.ai/data-pipeline-operations/transform-data-with-tables-to-tables): Transform data within BigQuery tables
* [Table to Storage](https://docs.tailer.ai/data-pipeline-operations/export-data-with-tables-to-storage): Export data from a table to a storage
* [Workflow](https://docs.tailer.ai/data-pipeline-operations/orchestrate-processings-with-workflow): Trigger the execution of your other data operations