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Data lake

A data lake is a single store where all kinds of business data are kept together, in their original form. Orders, emails, bookings, invoices, and documents can all sit there side by side. We call this one home for your data. For a small team, the value is simple. When everything is in one place, a report can compare marketing spend with sales, and an AI helper can answer a question that needs details from three different tools. Without it, the AI only knows what one app knows. A data lake for a small business is much smaller and cheaper than the big-company version. It still needs care, or it fills up with old, messy data nobody trusts.

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