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Broadcom Test Data Manager vs watsonx.ai 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

Broadcom Test Data Manager
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
33
Ranking in other categories
Test Data Management (2nd), Data Masking (3rd), AI Synthetic Data (3rd)
watsonx.ai
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.1
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
AI Development Platforms (25th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Broadcom Test Data Manager and watsonx.ai aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Broadcom Test Data Manager is designed for Test Data Management and holds a mindshare of 14.0%, down 18.0% compared to last year.
watsonx.ai, on the other hand, focuses on AI Development Platforms, holds 0.8% mindshare.
Test Data Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Broadcom Test Data Manager14.0%
Perforce Delphix17.8%
BMC AMI DevX11.9%
Other56.3%
Test Data Management
AI Development Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
watsonx.ai0.8%
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform8.4%
Azure OpenAI6.6%
Other84.2%
AI Development Platforms
 

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.
AmerKhan - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director - Head of Solution Engineering at Osol tech (Private) Limited
Experience gains better customer interactions and user-friendliness but requires more efficient agent development
The development toolkit itself and the engine that supported the agent development was flexible. The features include support for RAG and support for generative AI. What we're looking to do is provide a human-like interface where natural language comes into play to serve HR data. Our users interact in a narrative fashion and get their queries answered. It has increased our serving of HR requests by 30%. It is user friendly, and our user base was able to work with it quite conveniently.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I would certainly recommend this product, because of the vast variety of data it provides for testing and its different features, like subsetting and cloning."
"We saw the demos, then we decided the solution was made for us."
"In terms of the speed to market, because we do not manually produce data anymore, we use intelligent profiling techniques and test data matching, we massively reduce the time we spend finding data, and we also can produce data on the fly, which turns around test data cycles."
"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."
"What I find to be most valuable is its ability to do synthetic data creation. I love that because it has a lot of flexibility and you do not have to worry about one specific database or how you are going to manage all the data points."
"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."
"In terms of performance testing, before TDM, preparing the data and data generation took a week for 20,000 sets of data, now, with TDM, it takes just one day, which is great."
"The development toolkit itself and the engine that supported the agent development was flexible."
 

Cons

"It wasn't as smooth as we had thought. We ran into a network issue, a firewall issue, things like that."
"They could make it easier to model databases, because right now it is really technical, so to train someone on it takes a while."
"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."
"As the solution continues to evolve, the one thing I like about it is the API-friendly layers that they have added into the realm. So, I just would like to see more support around that and more usability."
"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."
"If I was going to look at one thing that I am hoping they are going to improve on is – it is a great database tool – I'm not always sure about the programmatic abilities of it."
"The integration with various utilities is also really important. That still has to happen. That's a major area for improvement."
"I rate it at seven out of 10 because of those three steps I have to go through."
"The platform and toolkit that we use to develop agents could benefit from improvements from a user-friendliness perspective."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"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."
"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."
"It can be scaled for as many licenses as the customer is willing to pay. It's kind of expensive."
"I would rate Broadcom TDM's pricing as four out of five."
"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."
"The tool's pricing is high."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
31%
Insurance Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
5%
Marketing Services Firm
5%
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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 ...
What needs improvement with watsonx.ai?
Improving on the development toolkit would help. The platform and toolkit that we use to develop agents could benefit from improvements from a user-friendliness perspective. Making it more user-fri...
What is your primary use case for watsonx.ai?
We are looking to develop HR agents on it, HR-based bots. We integrated it with our HR system, HRIS.
What advice do you have for others considering watsonx.ai?
This solution is highly recommended. On a scale of 1-10, I rate watsonx.ai a seven out of ten.
 

Also Known As

CA Test Data Manager, DataMaker, DataFinder, Fast Data Masker, CA TDM
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Sample Customers

Manheim, Arag
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