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BMC Compuware Topaz Enterprise Data vs Broadcom Test Data Manager comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

BMC Compuware Topaz Enterpr...
Ranking in Test Data Management
10th
Ranking in Data Masking
9th
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Broadcom Test Data Manager
Ranking in Test Data Management
2nd
Ranking in Data Masking
5th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
AI Synthetic Data (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Test Data Management category, the mindshare of BMC Compuware Topaz Enterprise Data is 1.1%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Broadcom Test Data Manager is 17.9%, up from 17.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Test Data Management
 

Featured Reviews

PM
Good for large amounts of data and has a variety of use cases but can be complex to use
It's a very complicated tool. Sometimes the customer wants better, faster transaction times. They want the solution to move as fast as possible. We're trying to scale and grow our application with more servers to get the level of speed desired. Everything from small processes to big batch processing needs to be faster.
Amit-Rastogi - PeerSpot reviewer
Helps to create synthetic data and new data sets
Broadcom Test Data Manager is for data management. I would like to see some extension with data warehousing concerning ETL. It should also integrate with Jira or other reporting tools. Currently, after creating data, we update tickets and other information in various tools. This would enable us to attach relevant files or information to specific tickets.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Test data management capabilities are good."
"The solution is very user-friendly. For instance, if I wanted to create a project with Data Generation, Data sub-setting, Selective sub-setting, and Data Marketing, it can be easily done in TDM. And if you want to export these project definitions from one system to another, it can be done with just one click."
"It saves us time from generating the same amount of data in real-time.​"
"​The scalability is outstanding. We're able to scale it to any size of data that we want. We can do small data sets, we can do large data sets."
"The solution has a portal where we can create data. We can also create synthetic data with the help of the product. We can use it to create a new data set in the database, eliminating many issues. The product helps with data accuracy and availability."
"Data privatization (GDPR enable), synthetic test data generation, and test data provisioning are its main interesting features."
"Data generation, data masking, and data subsetting are three key features of this tool."
"Core features that we needed were synthetic data creation, and to be able to do complex data mining and profiling across multiple databases with referential integrity intact across them. CA's product actually came through with the highest score and met the most of our needs."
"TDM allows us to find the right test data for the test that we need, and then it also allows us to get the required data inputs into our API test, so that we can do a full test."
 

Cons

"It's a very complicated tool."
"Needs improvement on SAP test data generation for SAP testing."
"There are different modules for masking. There is a portal and there is a standalone application as well. The standalone application is more old-fashioned. When you write rules on this old-fashioned interface, because it has more complex functions available for use, you can't migrate them to the portal."
"I would say implementing test data management requires a lot of effort and time...Even if you have experienced people, it takes time."
"We had one user that was primarily working on it, who probably spent a few months initially setting it up."
"The additional feature probably would be a data reservation that is more robust, where you can actually use it consecutively."
"All financial institutions are based on mainframes, so they're never going to go away. There are ppportunities to increase functionality and efficiencies within the mainframe solution, within this TDM product."
"Needs a better fit and finish."
"Broadcom TDM takes a long time to import documents, which wastes time that could be spent on other things."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The cost of this tool is pretty high... CA provides licenses for different utilities like masking but even if you break it up, the pricing is still high."
"The tool's pricing is high."
"Mainly, we compete with the IBM team and Informatica, and if you compare the license cost, Broadcom is too flexible. Depending on the customer's budget, we suggest they buy only respective SKUs, and it's much cheaper compared to others because we have gone over multiple deals where pricing was never a factor in differentiating products."
"Know all the data requirements before buying this product. There are a lot of features for this tool, which may or may not be useful to a particular company. Make sure of what your requirements for your data are."
"Part of the licensing is dependent on whether you want to use the portal. It's based on floating users. The other part is dependent on what type of system you are using. We are using mainframe, so we paid good money for a mainframe license."
"I would rate Broadcom TDM's pricing as four out of five."
"It can be scaled for as many licenses as the customer is willing to pay. It's kind of expensive."
"My company makes yearly payments toward the licensing costs. So, I consider the licensing costs to be expensive, especially considering what I have heard from my colleagues."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
26%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Insurance Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with BMC Compuware Topaz Enterprise Data?
It's a very complicated tool. Sometimes the customer wants better, faster transaction times. They want the solution to move as fast as possible. We're trying to scale and grow our application with ...
What is your primary use case for BMC Compuware Topaz Enterprise Data?
We do development for our customers and we use Topaz to do backend systems for some Latin American banks. It's for enterprise data. It runs on AWS. I'm working on performance testing to do batch pe...
What do you like most about Broadcom Test Data Manager?
The solution has a portal where we can create data. We can also create synthetic data with the help of the product. We can use it to create a new data set in the database, eliminating many issues. ...
What needs improvement with Broadcom Test Data Manager?
Broadcom Test Data Manager is for data management. I would like to see some extension with data warehousing concerning ETL. It should also integrate with Jira or other reporting tools. Currently, a...
 

Also Known As

Topaz Enterprise Data, Topaz for Enterprise Data
CA Test Data Manager, DataMaker, DataFinder, Fast Data Masker, CA TDM
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

TCF Financial, Mutual of Omaha, FBL Leasing
Manheim, Arag
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