Broadcom Test Data Manager Other Advice

Amit-Rastogi - PeerSpot reviewer
TDM Architect at T-Mobile

It's entirely driven by your organization's needs and understanding what you require before deciding on a feasibility schedule for any tool. However, I would say that the Broadcom Test Data Manager has almost all the features we're looking for in a testing tool. It aligns well with the market in terms of capabilities and functionalities. You can get 80-90 percent of features and capabilities within the product. I rate it a nine out of ten. 

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MH
Senior Presales Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

TDM provides the option of choosing your Kubernetes environment and whether it is managed Kubernetes environment or a classic On-prem Kubernetes environment. You can put it over there because it is primarily customers' preference, especially banking customers, who want the On-Prem version as they don't want to allocate more resources. And suppose a company wants to have a cloud partnership that can use Azure, AWS, or any other Managed Kubernetes environment. In that case, the idea is you don't consume the entire cloud resources because if you look at masking a job, it will only happen sometimes. So here's the idea on-demand, scale it up to the maximum, and once the job is done, you scale down. It saves a lot of money.

The users should keep a futuristic view for TDM because, at some point, you may need to decide where it can be deployed in Kubernetes and in which version. Because going forward, you'll shift to some other cloud, or you might have a private cloud within your organisation, and you don't want to use the classic deployment options. So whenever you find a solution, you need to look at a futuristic solution where it can be deployed. If you are deploying in VM today and tomorrow, if you want to change, installing it in the Kubernetes environment should also be viable.

I rate it nine out of ten.






I rate Broadcom Test Data Manager a nine out of ten.

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PL
Test data management consultant at Tech Mahindra Limited

I would say implementing test data management requires a lot of effort and time. Many organizations fail to provide sufficient support and time since most organizations think that they have the tools, licenses, and people to solve their problems. However, that's not the case. Even if you have experienced people, it takes time. So, in my first organization, it took almost four years for us to give synthetic data generation capabilities. Certainly, we should implement Broadcom Test Data Manager, but the organization doing so should have time and patience.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

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AT
Senior Test Data Management Specialist at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

It is not an easy thing to give a 10 on a scale of one to 10 for ratings, but I have to say, I think the TDM solution is a 10.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: I think when you are trying to choose a vendor to work with on some of these solutions, you really have to decide if they are going to work with you as well. CA has been a great partner for us, because they are always there to work with us. It is not them having a solution that they are trying to cram down your throat, instead it is them trying to figure out what your needs are and building solutions around that. 

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it_user396528 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Test Manager at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees

Important criteria when selecting a vendor: we want to work with somebody that's going to help us solve the problem that we're trying to solve. Do it in a way that works for our enterprise. We don't want to do something that only works for one team or one solution, something that's scalable. We have a lot of different technologies in our organization, so we need something that will work with all of them.

We need a partner that will help us. This was something new to us, and so we needed somebody to help us dive in, figure out how to do it in our world, and translate that out and help us be successful with the implementation.

Rating: I would say it is a 10/10. It's been a great experience for us. We really have benefited a lot from it. It's been a great story, as we've learned how to sell it and embed it into our process, and it's been really beneficial for us. We got a lot of conversations with people while we've been here about recommending the application. It's been transformative for us in order to implement that.

It's an interesting process to go through. Organizations need to change their model and stop thinking about how they've always done things, and so the challenge is really getting people to think in a new way, but once they do, it's been a terrific experience. It's really allowed us to focus on the craft of what we're trying to do, rather than lots of other activities that we don't need to be spending time on.


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AT
Senior Test Data Management Specialist at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

Our biggest wins in implementing this tool was to start out by working with a singular team and find some data delivery wins. After that internal proof of concept was realized, expansion to other teams became much more simple.

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it_user797916 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Dev manager at T-Mobile

I give it an eight out of 10, only because it is complex. There are some things that still need to be worked out, but overall, it's a very good solid solution.

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it_user752190 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We did a proof of concept with TDM to see if the solution fits our needs. We did it for a couple of months, did some testing, did some analysis, and tried to determine if it fit our way of working. Now we are going to implement it in production.

If there is a big amount of data to mask and you need to deliver it conveniently, pretty easily, there is no other solution. Configuration is easy. It's built slightly differently, the design is slightly different than any other tool, but the delivery of the masked data is much smoother than in any other solution. You don't need to use something like a stepping stone. You don't need to copy data to some place, then mask it, and then send it, because you copy data which is already masked. Data is masked on the fly, before they are copied to the destination. You don't need anything like a server in the middle. In my opinion, this is the biggest feature this software has.

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it_user572823 - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP Quality Assurance at GM Financial

I think from my synthetic generation, a lot of times generating synthetic data can be cumbersome. TDM, with some of the rules aspect of it, you can generate it and have your rules in place that you know your data's going to be very consistent. When we want a particular loan to come through with a particular credit score, we can generate the data. We can select and generate the data out of TDM that will create me a data file for my in-front script, through using DevTest.

I also push the service virtualization record to respond to the request of the loan, hitting the credit bureau, returning a certain credit score, which then gets us within that target zone for that loan we're looking for, to trigger a rule.

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it_user453708 - PeerSpot reviewer
Practice Manager (Testing Services) at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Rating: no one's perfect. You got to go in the top quartile of it, so you're probably eight upwards. I think in terms of test data management solutions, it's the best out there. I think that the way that tool is going it's kind of moving into other areas in TCO and kind of the integration with SV, it's a massive thing for us.

I think the recommendation is that absolutely this is kind of the best in breed. As well as buying the tool, it would be a mistake to not also invest in kind of understanding how the tool integrates into the organization and kind of how to bring that into the kind of the tools team, the testing teams and the environment teams that you need to work with.

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it_user779256 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at American Express

The most important criterion when selecting a vendor is support. And obviously it comes down to: Do they offer the capabilities I'm interested in at a reasonable price, with good support.

I rate it at seven out of 10 because of those three steps I have to go through. If they get rid of those, make it one step, and do these other things, I'd give it a solid nine. Nothing's perfect.

For my use, based on the products out there that I have researched, this is the best one.

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it_user778575 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Director at Sogeti UK

When selecting a vendor the important criteria are 

  • ease of use
  • responsiveness of the technical support
  • forward-looking products. By that I mean, do they have a plan for the next three months, six months, year, not just make the product and then forgot about it.

For this particular area, test data management, because I am involved in evaluating other companies' products as well, CA so far is the leader. I personally compare each feature for all the companies we evaluate. So far CA is the number one. There is still some improvement to be done, which CA is aware of. But I think I would advise a colleague that we can start with CA.

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it_user797949 - PeerSpot reviewer
Domain Manager at KeyBank National Association

I'd rate it about an eight. It provides the functionality that we're needing. There are always opportunities for improvement and I don't ever give anyone a 10, so it's good for our needs.

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PB
Front Line Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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. I have heard of products which can do cloning and similar stuff, but there are many additional features in this tool, which is very useful for the testing and finding defects. 

We found we mostly use one or two features, so we need to be very clear on what we need before choosing a product. Test Data Manager is good, and there are a lot of advantages that you get from using the tool, especially for testing and incubating with the App Test, which is something that we use a lot. 

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it_user558156 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality Assurance at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

When selecting a vendor, my personal requirements would be: the tools should be stable and there should be a knowledge repository for it. When you see the PPT presentation, it just gives you an introduction about the tool and it gives you the capabilities of the tool. To really get your hands dirty, you need an intense video or documentation to work on it.

I think the more webinars you do, the better. If you can record the webinars, archive them, that would be great. If you could try to solve some more complex use cases in your demos, that would be great. Most companies give you a demo of new features with zero complexity. Actually, when looking at the demo, and you are trying to solve your own use cases, you just get choked. You can't proceed any further because your use cases are really more complex than what was being shown in the demo. From the recovery aspect, if they can come up with more intense videos which shows real complex use cases, that's going to be great.

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PD
Senior Technology Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

There are, let's say, five market-standard tools you can choose from. If you choose CA TDM, you need to bring out all your questions for your PoC journey. You have four weeks to get answers to whatever questions you have. There is a set of experts at CA and partners have expertise as well. Both will be able to answer your questions.

Next, you need to supply a roadmap. For example, "I need X, Y, and Z to be tackled first." And the roadmap that comes out of the due diligence needs to be followed word-for-word. So proper planning is essential.

There are three teams which are at the base of your TDM journey. One team is a central data commandment team, one is a federated team, and the third is for creating small tools that you might require at that point in time. To start, you need three to four people. But we have gotten into all types of data: Big Data, RPA, performance; etc. Wherever data is needed, our team is providing the data. In a bank, for example, where I did two rounds of due diligence, one lasting eight weeks and the other, three years later, lasting six weeks, we even implemented bots. When we started there the team was 50. Even though we automated the whole thing, more than what anyone might have even imagined, the team is still 40-plus.

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VB
Practice Head - Digital Testing at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I have been acquainted with this tool for three-and-a-half years and, since it was acquired by CA, we have worked pretty closely with CA to give feedback on what is expected out of the tool. We have worked very closely with the developers, as well, to enhance the tool.

We have two or three clients using it.

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it_user796329 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at The Williams Companies, Inc.

If I were talking to my peer managers, I would recommend Test Data Manager - and I have, on multiple occasions - because it does allow the developer to have quick access to data that, normally, would take them hours or sometimes days to gather. 

I would say TDM, on a scale of one to 10, is probably in the eight category. It's a very solid solution. I think it can do more for us, and we're always trying to find new ways of using Test Data Manager.

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PD
Senior Technology Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I would give Broadcom TDM a rating of eight out of ten.

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GE
IT Specialist at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's important to know the requirements of your system, for example, the security policies you have to observe. The requirements may include a concern about relational or other database systems. You have to know your systems. Depending on your system, consider using one or more consultants, because we had a problem just using one. Also, compare all the tools by doing proofs of concept. That's important.

We have been using it for three months, but before that we also did a proof of concept in stages for about a year.

Regarding future use, we plan to use it in automation testing with content integration tools. Before running the automated tests, we will prepare our generated data with TDM. We also have a future plan for storage virtualization and use of Docker applications. It is possible that for Docker we would also use the TDM rule set. I want to believe it's scalable.

We have five testers using it to write rules. We also have 20 business analysts using and running these rules. In terms of maintenance, two developers would be enough. Our consultant coached our developers regarding our requirements. A testing engineer would also be okay for maintenance.

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MS
Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would recommend this solution.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: 

  • Stability
  • The size of the company
  • The ability to respond to our needs and meet our needs. 
  • The breadth of software that they have available for what we are looking to do.
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it_user572907 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Specialist at Cox Automotive

It’s not something that I would often give, but I do give this a perfect rating. We've been able to solve any of the data issues that we were having initially when we first brought it in, and it's expanded everything that we can do as we looked into the future right now of where we want to go with this. That includes its tie-ins for service virtualization; that includes the way that we can build out our environments in a way that we'd never considered before. It's just always a much more dynamic world that we can react a lot faster to, and attribute most all of that to Test Data Manager.

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it_user466854 - PeerSpot reviewer
Practice Leader - DevOps at CIBER

My recommendation is to perform a detailed evaluation. If only simple, straightforward, and small-scale test data management is needed, I don’t think a large solution such as CA TDM is necessary. To justify the cost of CA TDM, you need to have need for large-scale test data management.

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it_user572886 - PeerSpot reviewer
Client Partner at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

Use this product with a proof of concept for your organization. The product is very agile. It can fit into small and big organizations, so don't be afraid of that. The product has a lot of features; the way it has been, the product works, is the features. It can work for you as a smaller organization. It can work for a very large organization. Scalability is there. Just use it as a proof of concept and you'll see the power of the TDM.

If we are able to get those – maybe it is there, and we just have to see it in my company – plugging in from all of those different sources, I think that will definitely make it 100% the product that we're looking for.

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it_user778602 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Architect at Global Bank Corporation

The first thing that you should start with is the requirements and automation. That is the first step. We started with the Service Virtualization, then we found that we should have started with the requirements first. Because the natural processes are defined in our requirements, then you go to the virtualizer services that you are going to need, and then the data, but we started with the Service Virtualization. Now, we realized that we needed to start with the requirements first.

It would be working better if the requirements were designed right.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: 

  • Experience. The vendor already has to have big clients. 
  • The implementation process has to be very easy. It was.
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it_user778785 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Test Data Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feel free to ask questions. There are really helpful people that are willing to take the time to work with you and provide a solution. Think about it holistically. Do not think about it as a siloed approach to just solving one problem. Think about how it is going to fit into the larger DevOps organization. 

CA willingness to listen to customers has surprised me. Being part of this design partner program, I really feel like our concerns are being taken seriously and it is not just sales pitch stuff. 

What do you personally like to see in a vendor: That you are being taken seriously. That your concerns are valid and to see actual movement with them. This is my first vendor that I have worked with extensively, which has been good.

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it_user558576 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engagement Manager at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

In terms of advice it depends on what you need. Based on our experience we have seen this is a very good tool. Especially when you need to get the bulk data and make changes to it on the fly to do testing. This is the tool that you can use.

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it_user778692 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

I would say trial it out.

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it_user558504 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

When you do your implementation, find an experienced implementer to get it set up and get it done right the first time.

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