We performed a comparison between Broadcom Test Data Manager and Informatica Persistent Data Masking based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Masking solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Data generation, data masking, and data subsetting are three key features of this tool."
"I have always gotten a call back within an hour from CA's technical support solutions and they are a wonderful team to work with."
"The whole process is done by functions which are compiled on the source environment itself. Normally, you take the data from the source, you manage them - for example, mask them - and then you load this masked data into the destination. With this solution, it's completely different. On the source environment, there are functions compiled inside the environment, which means they are amazingly fast and, on the source environment, data are masked already. So when you take them, you already take masked data from the source. So you can copy them, even with an unencrypted pipe."
"It saves us time from generating the same amount of data in real-time."
"I like the integration a lot. We use the test matching feature and the ability to make and find data."
"The data generation is one of the most valuable features because we are able to write a lot of rules. We have some specific rules here in Turkey, for example, Turkish ID IBAN codes for banks."
"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."
"The initial setup was straightforward. Basically, just install, next, and start using it."
"Informatica Persistent Data Masking can mask production data for different users, ensuring that only authorized individuals can access sensitive information."
"Informatica provides a comprehensive solution for on-the-fly or real-time data masking."
"The most valuable feature is data discovery. This is the most exciting feature for all of the banks."
"The most valuable features are the structure masking and platform masking."
"Informatica is user-friendly, stable, and scalable. These three aspects are the most valuable for us. If we can make it work well with the CRM, we can continue or try again this year to complete that part of the project. I am confident that this kind of solution is what we need because we have a third-party resource that works in the development."
"We had one user that was primarily working on it, who probably spent a few months initially setting it up."
"Broadcom TDM takes a long time to import documents, which wastes time that could be spent on other things."
"Get everything centralized into the portal."
"It has a feature called TDM Portal, where testers can find test data by themselves, based on multiple models. They can reserve the data so that it belongs to one group or individual. Obviously, that data is not available to anybody else... This feature is for one environment. But if a different group of testers wanted that data for a different environment, they can't use it via CA TDM. That feature doesn't exist."
"I would say implementing test data management requires a lot of effort and time...Even if you have experienced people, it takes time."
"We are using a specific database. We are not using Oracle or SQL, Microsoft. We are using Teradata. There are some things that they don't have in their software. For example, when delivering data, they are not delivering them in the fastest possible way. There are some things which are faster."
"There were some issues with initial setup. It wasn't as smooth as we had thought. We ran into a network issue, a firewall issue, things like that. It wasn't something we could not fix. We worked with CA support and with the client's team to fix it. But there were issues, it took a lot of time to install and configure."
"I would request to extend the data source support because there are a lot of cloud-native SaaS-based solutions in the market. Like, Azure has its data sources, Amazon-specific data sources, and there are a lot of proprietary data sources outside as well. I recommend the team to expand the data source support."
"The data discovery isn't that good yet for Salesforce. We have another tool that we use for this. It may be a problem because Salesforce on the cloud."
"Once the data is masked, we won't be able to reverse it back to its original value."
"I have encountered some issues using the substitution, which is one of the techniques of data masking."
"Informatica should simplify the rules for setting classifications and user access management permissions. It's too complex to define, configure, and make work."
"Informatica's support understands the solution, but they lack the experience we need for our use case. That was one thing that we prioritized when we started searching for this kind of solution."
Broadcom Test Data Manager is ranked 2nd in Data Masking with 32 reviews while Informatica Persistent Data Masking is ranked 6th in Data Masking with 5 reviews. Broadcom Test Data Manager is rated 8.4, while Informatica Persistent Data Masking is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Broadcom Test Data Manager writes "Helps to create synthetic data and new data sets ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica Persistent Data Masking writes "Enables secure data protection during testing and controlled access to sensitive information". Broadcom Test Data Manager is most compared with Delphix, Informatica Test Data Management (TDM), IBM InfoSphere Optim Test Data Management (TDM), Tricentis Tosca and DATPROF, whereas Informatica Persistent Data Masking is most compared with Delphix, Protegrity Data Security, IBM Security Guardium Data Protection, IBM InfoSphere Optim and Imperva SecureSphere Database Security. See our Broadcom Test Data Manager vs. Informatica Persistent Data Masking report.
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