> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.sourcemedium.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Managed Data Warehouse (MDW) Overview

> What SourceMedium’s Managed Data Warehouse is and how to activate it via BI templates or custom modeling.

## What Is A Managed Data Warehouse?

SourceMedium's Managed Data Warehouse offering helps simplify data warehouse adoption, a table-stakes
technology investment for businesses looking to establish a competitive advantage through data and advanced analytics.

Once we've ingested data from the sources you've integrated, we run our [transformation pipeline](/data-transformations/philosophy) and deliver data into a
managed data warehouse instance that you can access directly.

Through this product, you'll get:

**- Data quality:** We've collaborated with hundreds of e-commerce merchants to refine our models and decision-making frameworks to ensure our data is
accurate, reliable, and [intuitive](/data-transformations/philosophy#how-we-shape-our-data) no matter the analytical use case.
We also conduct over 2,500 data quality tests daily to help enforce our quality standards.

**- Time to value & predictability:** We streamling your data infrastructure stack so you don't have to manage a data pipeline, build models
from the ground up, and navigate the unpredictability of billing, cost optimization, identity access management, security, performance, and more.

**- Future-proofing:** As your data needs grow alongside your business, you'll already have the infrastructural versatility and scalability
in place to 10x your capabilities.

## Activating Your Managed Data Warehouse

To kickstart your journey activating the data in your Managed Data Warehouse, we offer two primary pathways to get started.

### Bootstrap your BI with our base templates

While you can connect your Managed Data Warehouse to any BI tool, our base data source and report templates are a great
starting point for businesses looking to quickly gain insights without the need to build charts and tables from scratch.
These templates are designed around our pre-configured semantic layer ([see OBT table description](/data-transformations/philosophy#one-big-tables)),
helping turbocharge BI developers and data analysts.

Learn how to use our base data source and report templates in [BI Tools](/data-activation/managed-data-warehouse/bi-tools).

### Build models inside your warehouse

For businesses with custom analytics needs that our out-of-the-box semantic layer doesn't address, you can build customized models directly
in your Managed Data Warehouse.

Learn how to extend SourceMedium's models in [Modeling with SourceMedium](/data-activation/managed-data-warehouse/modeling).