Analytical Data Management FAQ | Vendia

Analytical Data Management FAQ

Why should I use Vendia’s analytical data management?

Enterprise AI projects demand high-quality data that is contextual, curated, and trusted. Vendia enables you to curate and distribute context-rich, AI-ready analytical data products (from small to terabyte scale) across or within organizational boundaries, clouds, and regions securely and with proper governance. AI applications and data teams - including data engineers and data product managers, can share raw, curated, and bespoke datasets with collaborators or consumers in a platform agnostic way.

Common use cases include:

Key features and benefits include:

What analytical data sources does Vendia support?

Currently, Vendia supports the following analytical data sources:

What external destination formats are supported for distributing data?

Vendia can create Data Products for downstream consumption by data consumers (human or AI applications) in the following formats:

How does data distribution with Vendia work?

Distributing data with your collaborators or data consumers is a straightforward process:

  1. Data Ingestion: First, your data must be ingested into Vendia. See supported sources for more information.
  2. Data Processing: Once data is ingested, the platform applies granular access and governance policies to the data based on settings you define.
  3. Data Sharing/Distribution: Depending on your use case, your data will either be:
    • Shared with a collaboration partner that is also using the Vendia platform as Vendia Tables (based on Apache Iceberg)
      or
    • Distributed into endpoints using a specified data format that a data consumer can directly query via their preferred query engine or tools
  4. Access Management: Vendia handles all the data mappings, transformations, security, and access management with trust, control, and privacy between multiple parties, enabling secure data sharing and collaboration across organizational boundaries.

This approach ensures that you maintain full control over your data while enabling secure sharing across organizational boundaries.

What types of data transformations are supported?

Vendia provides compute capabilities to transform and prepare your data for data distribution and collaboration. Data teams can perform the following without writing any additional code:

These capabilities allow you to create bespoke data products that meet your partners’ needs while maintaining data governance requirements.

How do I share data with collaboration partners within Vendia and why would I want to do so?

You can share data with collaboration partners for data enrichment and data cleanroom-based scenarios across disparate source systems which is a powerful capability that Vendia provides. This involves the following steps:

  1. Create a shared table: Define what data you want to share in the shared table by:
    • Selecting your source system, which can be:
    • Applying data filtering and masking policies if needed
    • Defining a schedule for updates
  2. Define access controls: Specify access controls and permissions for partners and collaborators in your multi-party sharing ecosystem.

Collaboration partners who receive the shared table(s) can create derived tables or their own data products from the shared table(s), allowing them to use the data in their own environments while you maintain control over the originally shared table.

How do I distribute data with consumers outside Vendia?

Vendia’s key value proposition for distributing analytical data is helping organizations achieve data democratization. Data providers can share meaningful, curated data products with consumers who are not on Vendia. This involves the following steps:

  1. Create a data product: Define a meaningful, curated data product by:
    • Selecting Vendia Tables which have necessary filtering/masking applied, or creating new Vendia Tables with the required filtering/masking (Note: a data product can comprise multiple Vendia Tables)
    • Defining the update schedule for your data product
    • Adding metadata to help your partners understand the purpose and content of your data product
  2. Select the destination data format(s): You can create the data product in formats that your consumers prefer:
    • Apache Iceberg
    • Delta Share
    • CSV
    • Any combination of the above (for partners requiring access via multiple data formats)
  3. Invite partner(s): Specify which external partners can receive an email invitation to access your data product(s).

Vendia streamlines this process through a user-friendly interface that guides you through each step while enforcing your organization’s data governance policies.

I am a data provider and want to distribute data with a consumer on a different data platform. Do I need to have an account on the destination platform?

No, as a data provider using Vendia, you do not need to have an account on your consumer’s preferred destination platform. After ingesting your data into Vendia, you can distribute it with consumers regardless of what platform they use. You maintain control over your data through Vendia’s platform while your consumers can access it through their preferred query engine or tools.

Vendia’s platform enables you to distribute meaningful, curated data products with consumers who are not on Vendia, facilitating true data democratization.

I am a data consumer and not on Vendia. How do I access the data that has been distributed to me?

As a data consumer who is not on Vendia, you will be invited by your data provider to access the data product(s) being distributed to you. Once you accept the invitation via email, a Vendia account will be created automatically as part of your acceptance process, enabling you to view the shared data product(s).

You will be guided through a set of steps and instructions to access your data product from your preferred platform or query engine (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, BigQuery, etc.).

What security features are supported for analytical data distribution?

Vendia’s analytical data distribution solution supports the following security controls:

Additional Resources

For more information about Vendia’s analytical data management capabilities, please refer to our documentation or contact Vendia Support with specific questions about your use case.