IT and security teams are drowning in telemetry while budgets barely move. For years, the instinctive move was simple: just ship everything into your favorite analytics platform and figure it out later. That used to work. It doesn’t anymore. If you keep treating every log line as one opaque blob, you’ll keep paying premium prices to store noise, exposing sensitive data you don’t actually need, and locking yourself tighter into a single vendor’s view of the world. Data decomposition is how you break that habit.