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Data Lifecycle Management

BigID transforms data lifecycle management (DLM). With BigID, you can govern the full lifecycle of your data— discover, govern, retain, archive, and defensibly delete data across your entire environment. Reduce cost. Minimize risk. Maximize value.

Why Data Lifecycle Management?

Data is growing faster than most companies can manage—creating complexity, cost, and compliance risk.

  • 60–80% of data is redundant, outdated, or trivial (ROT)
  • Dispersed data silos across cloud, on-prem, and legacy systems
  • Constantly evolving regulations: GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, and more
  • Unmanaged data = expanded attack surface and breach risk
  • High storage costs and environmental impact

BigID turns chaos into control—with smarter, faster, and more secure data lifecycle management.

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What You Get with BigID

BigID helps organizations automate and operationalize data lifecycle management across all environments—cloud, on-prem, and hybrid. Here’s how:

  • Identify redundant, outdated, and stale data automatically
  • Clean up clutter and cut costs without guesswork
  • Reduce storage bloat and environmental impact

  • Automate enforcement of custom or imported retention schedules
  • Ensure compliance across jurisdictions and regulations
  • Track lifecycle events with audit-ready logs

  • Confidently dispose of data with legal hold checks and referential integrity
  • Optional, embedded approval flows for controlled deletion
  • Support for data isolation and migration workflows

  • Apply business-specific rules across datasets
  • Integrate seamlessly with ServiceNow, JIR, and more
  • Role-based access controls (RBAC) for security and accountability

BigID's Business Impact

Reduce Risk

  • Shrink your attack surface by deleting what doesn’t belong
  • Prevent exposure during audits, investigations, or breaches

Cut Costs

  • Save on storage and backup with streamlined, right-sized data
  • Reallocate budget from ROT data to business priorities

Support ESG Goals

  • Reduce energy consumption by minimizing unused data
  • Align data practices with sustainability initiatives

Boost Compliance & Operational Efficiency

  • Stay audit-ready with automated tracking and policy enforcement
  • Improve agility with cleaner, more manageable data sets

Real Results. Real ROI.

In just three months, one of the world’s largest airlines removed 100 million stale files from Azure Data Lake Gen 2, saving over $200K upfront and achieving ongoing savings of $30K per month. By leveraging BigID for their data lifecycle implementation, they improved operational efficiency and laid the foundation for optimized, resource-efficient data usage.

Global Airlines

This organization deleted over 100 million redundant, stale, and irrelevant files from NAS, OneDrive, and SharePoint, cutting costs and enhancing operational efficiency. By decluttering their data landscape with BigID, they became more agile, secure, and cost-effective. They minimized their attack surface, reduced risk, and automated lifecycle management across the governance org.

International Insurance Organization

Ready to Own Your Data Lifecycle?

Turn complexity into clarity. Cut the ROT. Slash the risk. Save the cost. BigID helps you manage data smarter—so you can move faster.

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