Benefits of Data Purging

Purging data is the process of removing all data from a report, but leaving the structure of the report.

Is there any significant benefits of purging data prior on saving the report?

One of the few reasons that I can think of are;

1. If the data is confidential, it would be better to purge to avoid other users from seeing the data if they are not authorized.
2. If there’s a need to upgrade to newer version of BO, it would be faster as the file-size of the reports are smaller when data is purged. It will also contribute to the factor of faster report editing.
3. Use less disk space, smaller filestore etc.
4. Quicker to promote between environments.
5. If you wish to amend a report some versions can error, on running, when the report contains data and has the underlying queries changed.
6. Last but not least, users could be potentially looking at old data.