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Broadcom Test Data Manager vs Protegrity’s Data Protection Platform comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

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

Broadcom Test Data Manager
Ranking in Data Masking
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
33
Ranking in other categories
Test Data Management (3rd), AI Synthetic Data (3rd)
Protegrity’s Data Protectio...
Ranking in Data Masking
5th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Database Security (9th), Data Governance (34th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Data Masking category, the mindshare of Broadcom Test Data Manager is 6.9%, down from 11.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Protegrity’s Data Protection Platform is 6.8%, down from 7.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Masking Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Broadcom Test Data Manager6.9%
Protegrity’s Data Protection Platform6.8%
Other86.3%
Data Masking
 

Featured Reviews

Hosney Osman - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Solution Architect at Vodafone
Offers great utility with synthetic data generation and reliable technical support
Overall, this can definitely be the advantage of the product, and I'm happy with these functionalities that Broadcom provides. I totally recommend any application working on the database layer directly and I don't recommend any applications from other external vendors to perform the same function. Oracle and PostgreSQL have similar applications and they both work directly in the database, reading directly from the database, transforming values in another table within the same database, making it easy to run. The solution is saving me time and money in general because this application saves money and a lot of effort. I can generate any amount of data from Broadcom Test Data Manager, which has a lot of information and equations regarding this task. It saves money because my testing team needs this data to create use cases tested on realistic data. Broadcom Test Data Manager adds great value to my organization, but I believe it can be afforded only in international, large-sized companies. It is not affordable for medium or small-sized organizations.
Vinoth Raj Prabhakaran - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Architect at Tata Consultancy Services
Beneficial data security, good support, and straightforward initial setup
The initial setup of Protegrity Data Security was straightforward. However, we had a few problems, it's not multi-tenanted. It does not have a hierarchy of roles and differential priorities. To have the initial sandbox version of Protegrity Data Security up and running, took approximately one week. However, it needed to be set up in a resilient way because if it fails, then it is going to be a challenge bringing back the lost information. We have to be particular in terms of architecting it correctly which is taking us a bit of time. We are anticipating anywhere between four to six weeks to be finished.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"Test Data Manager allows you to do synthetic data generation, gives you a high level of confidence in your data that you're creating, and keeps you out of the SOX arena because there's no production data within that environment."
"In the last year, we captured some metrics around our ROI, and we've saved over eleven thousand hours in manual time of trying to create test data."
"It has really changed the culture in the company because nobody could ever imagine generating millions of records."
"When I look at the return on investment, there are not only huge financial gains on it, in fact, when I recently ran the numbers, we had about $1.1 million in savings on just the financials from 2016 alone."
"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."
"Broadcom TDM's best feature is the self-service portal."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Protegrity Data Security is the reduction of information being exposed."
"The product is stable."
"Its technical support team is helpful."
"The solution’s pricing is moderate."
 

Cons

"I would like to see more support for generating the data for loading performance."
"An increase in the types of programmatic capabilities could allow the tool to be more powerful."
"Needs improvement on SAP test data generation for SAP testing."
"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."
"The relationship between cables needs to be added."
"It is not very scalable because even to generate maybe a couple of million records, it takes six to seven hours."
"Get everything centralized into the portal."
"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."
"Protegrity Data Security could improve by having more integration."
"Protegrity is using a different OS which has some bugs. Sometimes it's causing an initialization error."
"The solution's UI could be better."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"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."
"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."
"It can be scaled for as many licenses as the customer is willing to pay. It's kind of expensive."
"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."
"We pay for a few additional services apart from its licenses."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
29%
Construction Company
9%
Insurance Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
5%
Financial Services Firm
33%
Computer Software Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Insurance Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise30
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Broadcom Test Data Manager?
In terms of areas for improvement in Broadcom Test Data Manager specifically, I recognize that building the ERD diagram after connecting to the database is very difficult and requires improvement e...
What is your primary use case for Broadcom Test Data Manager?
When it comes to use cases for Broadcom Test Data Manager, clients may use it for data masking. From a service provider perspective, regarding the data masking, data subsetting, and data virtualiza...
What advice do you have for others considering Broadcom Test Data Manager?
If I were to rate their support from one to ten, I would give them a ten. Let's divide the question about Broadcom's standing compared to other vendors. If we talk about Oracle, PostgreSQL, or any ...
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Also Known As

CA Test Data Manager, DataMaker, DataFinder, Fast Data Masker, CA TDM
Protegrity Data Security
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Manheim, Arag
A $4 billion retail conglomerate and holding company
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