Delivering real-time insights is a challenge. Traditional data pipelines create lags, and databases are often optimized for either transactions or analytics, but not both. Join us to learn how the Spanner Columnar Engine addresses these issues, enabling you to run real-time, high-performance analytical queries directly on your live operational data. We'll explore how Spanner accelerates workloads with in-database analytics (HTAP), serves intelligence via BigQuery reverse ETL, and provides operational insights with federated querying, all without complex data pipelines.