ADF/Synapse Pipelines orchestrate ingestion from SaaS, files, streams into Data Lake + Azure SQL/Synapse with dataflows for transform-at-scale.
Best practices
Parameterize pipelines; template common patterns.
Use managed private endpoints for secure movement.
Separate bronze/silver/gold layers for quality and lineage.
Add Data Quality rules early to stop garbage propagation.
Value
Faster analytics, governed lineage, predictable costs