An important advantage of research data management is that it will save you plenty of time because correctly designating, documenting, and organizing data allows you to easily maintain a clear overview of the data at hand as well as quickly find and process specific data sets. This proves particularly useful in the context of teams and project groups with frequent staff or researcher changes, or whose data have to be processed by or made available to several partners at a number of different sites.

When it comes to subsequent use, publishing and sharing data with third parties prevents duplication of effort for collecting the same or similar data.