We performed a comparison between Broadcom Test Data Manager and IBM Security Guardium Data Protection 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."What I find to be most valuable is its ability to do synthetic data creation. I love that because it has a lot of flexibility and you do not have to worry about one specific database or how you are going to manage all the data points."
"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."
"TDM allows us to find the right test data for the test that we need, and then it also allows us to get the required data inputs into our API test, so that we can do a full test."
"The whole process is done by functions which are compiled on the source environment itself. Normally, you take the data from the source, you manage them - for example, mask them - and then you load this masked data into the destination. With this solution, it's completely different. On the source environment, there are functions compiled inside the environment, which means they are amazingly fast and, on the source environment, data are masked already. So when you take them, you already take masked data from the source. So you can copy them, even with an unencrypted pipe."
"It saves us time from generating the same amount of data in real-time."
"Data generation, data masking, and data subsetting are three key features of this tool."
"I like the integration a lot. We use the test matching feature and the ability to make and find data."
"I have always gotten a call back within an hour from CA's technical support solutions and they are a wonderful team to work with."
"The solution has definitely saved us time, because if you want to monitor this kind of vast environment of different products, it's going to take a lot of time. Let's say one database server has 100 database instances running on it; I don't need to install 100 data instances, I just need to install on the one database server and that will cover all of my instances on that particular database."
"There are different modules but the most valuable ones are firewalling and masking. Additionally, the auditing of the entire database is helpful, which includes all the activity of the database users and administrators. We can monitor everything and log as well."
"It supports our audit compliance."
"Guardium does a great job of capturing data and having the ability of trying to pull it out and make sense of it. Using it for business applications is its biggest capability."
"From the perspective of analysis and prevention, this product is pretty accurate."
"Guardium lets you centrally manage aggregators and collectors."
"Our main focus for IBM Guardium is to support security initiatives and compliance policies within our organization. We use the DPD product for monitoring, especially for GDPR, SOX regulations and, of course, the vulnerability assessment that we use to make sure we're keeping up with our patches, making sure things are configured, making sure we're following the best practices."
"It's allowing us to be more proactive than reactive on alerts and access rights and types of resources that are being hit. Before, there were a lot of different solutions, but this expanded that out and made it a more holistic solution. It provides centralization of monitoring, instead of multiple, disparate applications. It definitely allows more economies of scale, streamlining, less fragmented use."
"It has a feature called TDM Portal, where testers can find test data by themselves, based on multiple models. They can reserve the data so that it belongs to one group or individual. Obviously, that data is not available to anybody else... This feature is for one environment. But if a different group of testers wanted that data for a different environment, they can't use it via CA TDM. That feature doesn't exist."
"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."
"Broadcom TDM takes a long time to import documents, which wastes time that could be spent on other things."
"Needs improvement on SAP test data generation for SAP testing."
"Get everything centralized into the portal."
"I would say implementing test data management requires a lot of effort and time...Even if you have experienced people, it takes time."
"As the solution continues to evolve, the one thing I like about it is the API-friendly layers that they have added into the realm. So, I just would like to see more support around that and more usability."
"They should make the Portal a little more user-friendly, make it even easier to configure things directly from the Portal."
"I would like to be able to upgrade appliances within major versions without needing to rebuild the appliance."
"Guardium's storage capabilities could use some improvement. I'd also like to have some better integration using digital technology or a connector."
"They could enable the out-of-the-box feature to track application user activity."
"The deployment is complex and requires expertise to deploy."
"I would like to see IBM Guardium have other encryption algorithms employed."
"Performance and the ability to use resources could be improved."
"There are features like end-to-end and S-TAP mapping, and the ability to install policies for your configuration builder. They're not there, but we'd like to see them in the next version."
"I have already mentioned to IBM that a primary need is to improve the number of records in the reports above 65,535."
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Broadcom Test Data Manager is ranked 2nd in Test Data Management with 32 reviews while IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 70 reviews. Broadcom Test Data Manager is rated 8.4, while IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2. 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 IBM Security Guardium Data Protection writes "Provides visibility, has a single console that shows all information, and collector-aggregator capabilities". Broadcom Test Data Manager is most compared with Delphix, Informatica Test Data Management (TDM), IBM InfoSphere Optim Test Data Management (TDM), K2View and Tricentis Tosca, whereas IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security and Vormetric Application Crypto Suite. See our Broadcom Test Data Manager vs. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection report.
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