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."The scalability is outstanding. We're able to scale it to any size of data that we want. We can do small data sets, we can do large data sets."
"When you have hundreds and hundreds of databases everywhere, how do you do that without looking for keys? If you do it manually, you're going to need a lot of people. With the tool, I work with five people on my team. Right now, we're modeling 700 different databases, and we can do it very quickly because of the tool."
"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 initial setup was straightforward. Basically, just install, next, and start using it."
"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."
"The data generation is one of the most valuable features because we are able to write a lot of rules. We have some specific rules here in Turkey, for example, Turkish ID IBAN codes for banks."
"The most valuable feature is the Portal that comes with the tool. That helps make it look much more user-friendly for the users. Also its ease of use - even for developers it's not that complicated."
"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."
"The additional feature probably would be a data reservation that is more robust, where you can actually use it consecutively."
"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."
"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."
"When we publish a lot data into the target, sometimes it is not able to handle it."
"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."
"Broadcom TDM takes a long time to import documents, which wastes time that could be spent on other things."
"The relationship between cables needs to be added."
"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."
"Probably the ideal time testing site, utilizing self-service for real-time testing, could be an area for improvement."
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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), K2View and BMC Compuware File-AID. See our Broadcom Test Data Manager vs. Informatica Test Data Management (TDM) report.
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