Data Optimization
Data optimization is the process of improving data efficiency, quality, and performance. It
involves a set of practices to help organizations be more efficient at data extraction,
processing, analysis, and storage. Data optimization involves the following aspects:
Aspect Process Goal
Data Storage Controlling and managing Minimize storage space requirements and
Optimization data storage infrastructure consumption
Enhancing data
Data
transformation, analytics, and
Processing Improve the ability to process data
computation speed and
Optimization
efficiency
Data
Cleaning and Resolving inconsistencies, Make sure data are accurate and reliable before
Quality errors, and missing values analyzing and making decisions
Improvement
Combining data from
Data
multiple sources into a Facilitate easier reporting and analysis
Integration
coherent and unified form
Data
Maintaining the entire data Ensure availability and proper disposal of data as
Lifecycle
lifecycle needed
Management
Query and
Enhancing data access and
Access Boost database performance
querying
Optimization
Cost Developing cost-effective Reduce data management and analytics costs while
Optimization data strategies maintaining performance and reliability
Data Implementing access
Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and the
Security and controls, encryption, and
security of data
Compliance auditing
Utilizing scalable
technologies and
Scalability architectures enables Scaling data operations as data volumes grow
organizations to handle
increased data volumes
Data Establishing policies and Maintain the quality, security, and compliance of data
Governance practices for data governance during data optimization
Best Data Optimization Techniques
1. First-Party Data Prioritization: Data from originating source is preferred.
2. Data Standardization: Enhances better analysis by having uniform data.
3. Data Deduplication: Process of detecting and eliminating duplicate or redundant data
to improve data quality and to save storage.
4. Metadata-Driven Optimization: Refers to the data's structure, context, and format to
classify and organize unstructured data and to improve data searches, access,
management, and retrieval.
5. Data Retention Policy Setting: Specify how long we can keep our unstructured data.
6. Data Visualization: The process of turning data into graphical representations.
7. Hybrid Cloud Adoption: A cost-effective way to optimize data by leveraging cloud
platforms (high performance & low-cost storage) with easier data management.
