PRE-EXECUTION QUERY OPTIMIZATION

A data processing method comprises using an application server computer of an application service provider (ASP), establishing computerized shared multi-tenant data storage in which tenant data that is associated with a plurality of different tenants of the ASP is stored together in a first database associated with a distributed computation system that is separate from the application server computer, receiving an analytics request, determining, based on at least one attribute of the analytics request, the application server computer will process at least the analytics request, sending, to the distributed computation system, a first query for data needed by the analytics request, receiving, from the distributed computation system, an interim result set of data resulting from processing the first query against the first database, processing, by the application server computer, the interim result set of data for the analytics request to generate and digitally store a first result set.