Test data management consultant at Tech Mahindra Limited
Real User
2023-05-12T10:07:00Z
May 12, 2023
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. They say that there are so many vendors in the market now for TDM, and Broadcom is one of the costlier ones in the market.
Practice Head - Digital Testing at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2019-01-10T08:22:00Z
Jan 10, 2019
The problem is that the cost of this tool is pretty high. Even if an organization likes the tool, at times it becomes difficult for us to sell the license. CA provides licenses for different utilities like masking but even if you break it up, the pricing is still high.
IT Specialist at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2019-01-08T10:53:00Z
Jan 8, 2019
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. It's okay because, for us, the main work of this tool is on those systems. The mainframe is a critical system, so the cost is okay.
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.
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Broadcom Test Data Manager enables effective test data processes with tools for synthetic data generation, data masking, and data subsetting. It enhances automation and ensures data privacy and compliance, catering to diverse testing environments.Broadcom Test Data Manager provides centralized data management with flexible functionalities like cubing and test matching, simplifying the creation and handling of test data. It supports both relational and non-relational data, optimizing test...
The tool's pricing is high.
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. They say that there are so many vendors in the market now for TDM, and Broadcom is one of the costlier ones in the market.
I would rate Broadcom TDM's pricing as four out of five.
The problem is that the cost of this tool is pretty high. Even if an organization likes the tool, at times it becomes difficult for us to sell the license. CA provides licenses for different utilities like masking but even if you break it up, the pricing is still high.
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. It's okay because, for us, the main work of this tool is on those systems. The mainframe is a critical system, so the cost is okay.
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.