Data Express®

Using, Securing and Managing Test Data

Your development team is under constant pressure to deliver.  It must quickly translate business requirements into development results.  This high rate of change means that testing your critical systems becomes ever more imperative.  You simply cannot afford to have an outage of an essential system.

To do so requires access to high quality test data to ensure that all production situations are validated.  These tests need to be executed efficiently and repeatedly.  But there are significant challenges that confront the testing team.

• High Price of Testing:   Frequent testing often becomes a bottleneck that slows development efforts.  Testing and test data generation can be the most expensive component of any development project. 
• Cost of Test Data Storage:  The cost to generate, transfer, process, and store test data sets increases testing costs dramatically as huge terabytes of information are required.
• Security of Clients’ Test Data:  Real-world testing demands realistic test data sets, but you cannot allow sensitive client data to fall into malicious hands by leaving it unprotected – the cost is too high.

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How Data Express Improves Test Data Management

Data Express helps manage the test data environment, improving test results, lowering the cost to test, and securing customer data from loss or misuse.  The solution enables you to:

• Automate the generation of test data environments, cutting the elapsed time by up to 80%.  This frees testing personnel to work on addressing the testing queue. 
• Eliminate up to 90% of test data storage.  This significantly reduces storage hardware and power costs and eases processing requirements.
• Protect customer data by obscuring sensitive information.  This keeps data safe from unauthorized users while retaining its value for testing.

Value of Effective Test Data Management

With better test data you can accelerate the delivery of high quality applications that support business goals.  At the same time, you avoid the loss of goodwill, lawsuits, and regulatory non-compliance stemming from data breaches.

• Improved Application Quality:  Stable and efficient applications depend on thorough testing.  The best way to ensure that tests are comprehensive is to validate them with real-world data.  Data Express enables your team to do so with 90% less effort for key steps.
• Reduced Risk of Liability:  Data Express confronts the security and regulatory risks of using live data.  The solution maintains the exact characteristics of sensitive test data, including referential integrity, while automatically obscuring sensitive information.  Now customer test data cannot be used by malicious third parties, minimizing your risk of lawsuits and non-compliance.
• Data Extraction:  Data Express’ data unload and extraction facilities create a consistent and realistic subset of production data from all major commercial data sources.  This avoids unnecessary and costly duplication of testing effort and dramatically reduces data volumes – often by 90% and more.  This directly slashes your infrastructure consumption.
• Data Inventory Management:  Data Express offers test designers and QA managers tools to assess the generated test data.  This gives control back to QA management, helping to speed the test process, retain consistently high-quality results, and ensure that security is paramount.

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