# Maximize your Data lakes & warehouses

#### With Vendia, you’re not just storing and analyzing data—you’re unlocking a **live, trusted data fabric** that fuels real-time decisions and AI outcomes across your ecosystem.

## How Vendia makes data lakes and warehouses sharable

Vendia turns your existing data lake or data warehouse into a **real-time, sharable data hub** for your entire ecosystem.

### Data harmonization and enrichment

Match, join, transform, and enrich data from multiple sources to generate deeper, actionable insights.

### Bring-your-own AI

Connect your preferred AI agent to perform advanced analysis on multi-format data.

### Flexible query access

Use rich SQL and GraphQL interfaces to explore and analyze your harmonized data for custom insights.

## Real-time data sharing across clouds, teams, and tools.

### Share live data everywhere

Across business units, clouds, partners, and AI agents.

### Stay in sync

Always real time, never delayed or stale.

### Unlock AI insights

Connect BI tools, ML models, and SQL interfaces without complex pipelines.

## Vendia and data lakes & warehouses: a side-by-side comparison

###### Capability

###### Traditional warehouses & lakes

##### Centralized storage

##### Sharing data warehouse across business units

#### Limited

##### Sharing data lake with external partners

##### Real-time synchronization

##### Built-in governance & permissions

##### Do not require heavy ETL