We performed a comparison between BMC Compuware File-AID and Broadcom Test Data Manager 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."I like the ability that it has to format copy books in a presentable manner. So, you will be able to see the starting offset in length of each field within the layout."
"The product has made our mainframe data management process easier. It has helped us save manhours. The tool's most valuable feature is the ability to edit tape files. Its ability to clone files is beneficial in application development."
"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."
"Broadcom TDM's best feature is the self-service portal."
"The initial setup was straightforward. Basically, just install, next, and start using it."
"It saves us time from generating the same amount of data in real-time."
"There is other stuff that they are working on right now, and that includes things like the vTDM or Virtual Test Data Management. That is where they have the ability to do test data clones. It is really neat because after doing some of that creation, or if you are going to do some subsetting, then you have a great looking database."
"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 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 synthetic data generation is really good... You can write rules and create permutations and combinations according to your needs. Or you can take a snippet of the Prod data and replicate it."
"We plan to replace BMC Compuware File-AID due to its price. Two years back, we paid 11,000 dollars. However, the current price is 27,900 dollars. The price has increased to at least eight times its initial cost. We would need to pay around 60,000 dollars to have all three products together. We also encountered issues during version updates."
"Technical support has gotten better over the years, though there's always room for improvement."
"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."
"They could make it easier to model databases, because right now it is really technical, so to train someone on it takes a while."
"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."
"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."
"We are using a specific database. We are not using Oracle or SQL, Microsoft. We are using Teradata. There are some things that they don't have in their software. For example, when delivering data, they are not delivering them in the fastest possible way. There are some things which are faster."
"A lot of research, data analysis, and work needs to be done on the source system in the tool which requires a data expert. This tool definitely requires a senior person to work on this issue, as it might be a challenge for a tester."
"They should make the Portal a little more user-friendly, make it even easier to configure things directly from the Portal."
"Get everything centralized into the portal."
BMC Compuware File-AID is ranked 7th in Test Data Management with 2 reviews while Broadcom Test Data Manager is ranked 2nd in Test Data Management with 32 reviews. BMC Compuware File-AID is rated 8.6, while Broadcom Test Data Manager is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of BMC Compuware File-AID writes "Helps to make mainframe data management process easier and saves manhours ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Broadcom Test Data Manager writes "Helps to create synthetic data and new data sets ". BMC Compuware File-AID is most compared with IBM File Manager, File Master Plus and IBM Fault Analyzer for zOS, whereas Broadcom Test Data Manager is most compared with Delphix, Informatica Test Data Management (TDM), IBM InfoSphere Optim Test Data Management (TDM), K2View and DATPROF. See our BMC Compuware File-AID vs. Broadcom Test Data Manager report.
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