EVEREST has received funding from the Horizon 2020 EU Research & Innovation programme under GA No 957269. The EVEREST project aims at developing a holistic design environment that simplifies the programmability of High Performance Big Data analytics for heterogeneous, distributed, scalable and secure systems. We use a “data-driven” design approach with domain-specific language extensions, hardware-accelerated AI and an efficient monitoring of the execution with a unified hardware/software paradigm.