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05. March 2021

Need to Save Your Company Money? Re-Think Your Approach to Data Management

Proper data management is one of the most critical ways that you can get ahead in your business.

Proper data management is one of the most critical ways that you can get ahead in your business. Today, data is your company’s most valuable asset. Regardless of what sector you operate in, your data is gold—or perhaps oil—and it should be readily accessible and securely stored in compliance with data privacy legislation. At Aparavi, we can help you harness the power of your data, decrease data complexity, and save your company money in the long run.

Data Management Is Timely

With so many people working from home these days, protecting your company’s precious data assets is more vital than ever. If there was ever a good time to re-think your data strategy, this is it.

It’s imperative for your team, whether on-premises or working remotely, to be able to access information quickly and in a secure fashion. Aparavi can help you streamline your data and keep it secure, accessible to those who need it, and guarded against those who don’t.

Streamline Data for Compliance and Ease of Use

Many companies don’t even know how much data they have. Data can be overwhelming and tough to understand. Still, with the right data retention policies, powerful technology, and a strong data management strategy, you can organize and classify your data to get compliant and learn valuable information about your customers. Aparavi’s automated, intuitive platform will allow you to identify important business assets and separate them from useless ROT (redundant, obsolete, or trivial) data quickly, to delete or archive unnecessary files and move important information to more secure storage repositories.

Many times, data gets unwieldy and bloated. Human error or multiple systems can lead to unnecessary redundancies in your data. These duplicates merely clog up the works, taking up space, and providing little or no use. When you upgrade your data management approach, you eliminate such redundancies and only keep the valuable data that you absolutely need.

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Weed through your system for duplicate files and customer information, and you will wind up with a far more logical and user-friendly system that allows you to see who your customers are and use that information to learn crucial information about who comprises your target market and how to approach them.

By identifying personal, sensitive, confidential, or proprietary information, Aparavi helps reduce compliance risks. In addition, when they can easily find information, your compliance team will be better able to respond to information requests. Finally, your company can continue to demonstrate compliance using Aparavi’s smart classification policies and automating data retention policies.

Increase Your Company’s Productivity

Does it take your team members forever to find anything? According to a report by Forrester, 75% of employees find it difficult to access the information they need through enterprise systems, and 62% of people report procrastinating a task if it requires them to sign into multiple different systems.

Accessing insights into all your enterprise data on one streamlined platform is an excellent way to get a handle on it and make it easy to use for all your team members. Regardless of whether your data is stored in the cloud, at the edge, on servers, or across multiple locations, The Aparavi Platform allows you to access your data in a safer way from anywhere in the world—including archived data—with no egress fees! This is one easy step that you can take to increase time to insight, complete tasks more efficiently, eliminate frustration around lack of access and multiple platforms, and even boost employee satisfaction.

With effective data tools, you can increase your company’s productivity by giving your team members the access they need. With secure systems in place, you can ensure that only those who need access are getting it. With a little bit of organization, you can give your team everything it needs to get the job done.

By removing data bottlenecks, you are empowering your team to do their jobs more independently. This is even more important now that we are dealing with a pandemic and so many people are working from home. With an increase in productivity comes a boost to your bottom line, so it’s worth it to get all of your data ducks in a row.

Keep Your Data Safe

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Your data is exceptionally valuable. It’s one of the most precious resources that your organization has to offer. Losing data or getting hacked are huge blows for your company and could cost you a lot of credibility when it comes to your customers. Even if the data breach isn’t your fault, you will still have to recover from a tarnished reputation. Additionally, you could lose millions of pieces of data that provide valuable insight into who your customers are. Treat your data like the valuable resource it is, and your company will flourish and save money in the future.

Everyone is worried about data breaches these days, so it’s important to keep your data safe. Aparavi can help. With Aparavi, your data can be indexed without data movement, decreasing security risks. In addition, The Aparavi Platform can identify which files contain sensitive information and which documents have open access, so you can restrict access to the proper department or move the documents to a more secure storage repository.

Save Money on Licenses and Renewal Costs

Do you actually know how much you are paying for licenses and renewals? If you have your data scattered all over the place, it’s highly probable that you are spending a ton of money paying for services that you don’t need. Every little bit adds up, so take a hard look at your data and figure out if your company is spending unnecessarily. When you can access all of your data in one place, you are able to cut out a lot of fees.

Additionally, you will have the chance to optimize your data properly. When you consolidate, you get a good view of what the data says, and you’re able to reduce your costs appropriately by weeding out duplicate files and bad information. It’s a good way of cutting the fat and starting fresh. so that you can make this critical move for your company without much hassle on your end.

If your data management system is long overdue for an overhaul, we can help. The Aparavi Platform enables organizations to sort, identify, and make the most of their valuable data. Our cloud-based system places a premium on security, and we can help you understand analytics and harness the power of your data to increase your bottom line in notable and important ways. Contact Aparavi to take charge of your valuable data today!