We performed a comparison between Broadcom Test Data Manager and Informatica Test Data Management (TDM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Test Data Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Broadcom TDM's best feature is the self-service portal."
"It allows us to create a testing environment that is repeatable. And we can manage the data so that our testing becomes automated, everything from actually performing the testing to also evaluating the results."
"When I run my App Test, I can directly connect with TDM. I can publish all my data into one table in TDM, then run my App Test directly."
"It saves us time from generating the same amount of data in real-time."
"The solution is very user-friendly. For instance, if I wanted to create a project with Data Generation, Data sub-setting, Selective sub-setting, and Data Marketing, it can be easily done in TDM. And if you want to export these project definitions from one system to another, it can be done with just one click."
"The initial setup was straightforward. Basically, just install, next, and start using it."
"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."
"It removes manual intervention. A lot of the time that we've spent previously was always manually, as an individual running SQL scripts against databases, or manually going through a UI to create data. These solutions allow us to incorporate automation and self-service to eliminate all of our manual efforts."
"The tool enabled us to leverage Teradata Parallel Transporter to write the masked data efficiently to our Teradata warehouse."
"Organizations working on different projects can benefit from this tool."
"Informatica Test Data Management is a complete solution. I'm not very deep in the technical aspect of the solution, but most of the workflows are now completely automated. There are some minor elements where we have to still add manual parts to the implementation."
"There are different modules for masking. There is a portal and there is a standalone application as well. The standalone application is more old-fashioned. When you write rules on this old-fashioned interface, because it has more complex functions available for use, you can't migrate them to the portal."
"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."
"Needs improvement on SAP test data generation for SAP testing."
"They could make it easier to model databases, because right now it is really technical, so to train someone on it takes a while."
"Broadcom Test Data Manager is for data management. I would like to see some extension with data warehousing concerning ETL. It should also integrate with Jira or other reporting tools. Currently, after creating data, we update tickets and other information in various tools. This would enable us to attach relevant files or information to specific tickets."
"The additional feature probably would be a data reservation that is more robust, where you can actually use it consecutively."
"They should make the Portal a little more user-friendly, make it even easier to configure things directly from the Portal."
"Needs a better fit and finish."
"Probably the ideal time testing site, utilizing self-service for real-time testing, could be an area for improvement."
"Informatica has a data governance suite, and at the moment, there is no connection between the data governance elements, such as the data catalog, and the Informatica Test Data Management software. For example, the data discovery which is part of both solutions is two separate things. If you have a data discovery in the data catalog, then we cannot use it for Informatica Test Data Management purposes and vice versa. The same software vendor, has two different products, with the same functionality. There's was no need to separate things. This is something which was a problem in a use case of the customer where this was the reason why they didn't choose the Informatica solution."
"The UI experience is a little bit old. When applying more than 80 columns, it means doing it in phases, as it won't allow it in one go."
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Broadcom Test Data Manager is ranked 2nd in Test Data Management with 32 reviews while Informatica Test Data Management (TDM) is ranked 5th in Test Data Management with 10 reviews. Broadcom Test Data Manager is rated 8.4, while Informatica Test Data Management (TDM) 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 Test Data Management (TDM) writes "Beneficial for test cycle efficiency and scalability, but challenges exist in terms of technical support and user interface". Broadcom Test Data Manager is most compared with Delphix, IBM InfoSphere Optim Test Data Management (TDM), K2View, Tricentis Tosca and DATPROF, whereas Informatica Test Data Management (TDM) is most compared with Delphix, Tricentis Tosca, IBM InfoSphere Optim Test Data Management (TDM) and K2View. See our Broadcom Test Data Manager vs. Informatica Test Data Management (TDM) report.
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