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We performed a comparison between Informatica Persistent Data Masking and SAP Replication Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"The most valuable feature is data discovery. This is the most exciting feature for all of the banks.""Informatica provides a comprehensive solution for on-the-fly or real-time data masking.""Informatica Persistent Data Masking can mask production data for different users, ensuring that only authorized individuals can access sensitive information.""Informatica is user-friendly, stable, and scalable. These three aspects are the most valuable for us. If we can make it work well with the CRM, we can continue or try again this year to complete that part of the project. I am confident that this kind of solution is what we need because we have a third-party resource that works in the development.""The most valuable features are the structure masking and platform masking."

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"We can customize any workflow and we also like the business domain modeling that can be done.""It speeds up the performance in terms of how fast you are able to access the data, look at it, get it reported to you, and send it to somebody. It also reduces the amount of storage.""SAP is renovating different things. We are using external tools to connect as of now. It is going well, and now the new generation integration platforms are going to be pretty easy.""SAP Replication Server is an application that I consider to be a robust system. It has proven to be highly reliable in my experience."

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"I have encountered some issues using the substitution, which is one of the techniques of data masking.""The data discovery isn't that good yet for Salesforce. We have another tool that we use for this. It may be a problem because Salesforce on the cloud.""Once the data is masked, we won't be able to reverse it back to its original value.""Informatica should simplify the rules for setting classifications and user access management permissions. It's too complex to define, configure, and make work.""Informatica's support understands the solution, but they lack the experience we need for our use case. That was one thing that we prioritized when we started searching for this kind of solution."

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"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing and faster support.""The private solution is expensive. If you're in a situation where you're paying IBM or AWS or somebody just to host you specifically, you're paying people to run it and you're taking care of all the upgrades.""I would like to see it become mobile-friendly.""Improvement is a never ending story, and HANA is doing some improvements. We are able to adopt that, and we have to do it by integration with HANA. They are very major changes that we need to see."

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  • "It's a very expensive solution."
  • "You can pick one of the hosted cloud services as opposed to owning it and doing it yourself. Your cost of ownership on the hardware, the data storage, and the maintenance all go down. It depends on what service you use."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Informatica Persistent Data Masking can mask production data for different users, ensuring that only authorized individuals can access sensitive information.
    Top Answer:I think there's only one area that could be improved. Currently, when we apply the Data Masking rate, we don't have a way to view the masked data. It would be helpful if there was a feature to allow… more »
    Top Answer:Test data management is a common use case. When conducting testing in lower environments, we want to avoid exposing sensitive information. To achieve this, we use Data Masking to modify the data. For… more »
    Top Answer:SAP Replication Server is an application that I consider to be a robust system. It has proven to be highly reliable in my experience.
    Top Answer:The reason why there has been a move toward cloud services and service as a software is because it's so much easier. There are fewer databases, and the cost is lower to have it hosted. You can pick… more »
    Top Answer:The price could be cheaper. There is room for improvement in terms of pricing and faster support.
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    Also Known As
    Data Masking, Informatica Data Masking
    Sybase Replication Server
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    Overview

    De-identify, de-sensitize, and anonymize sensitive data from unauthorized access for application users, business intelligence, application testing, and outsourcing.

    Information and data-driven insight is what powers business today. But to get the most from your enterprise data, you need a way to bring transactional, streaming, social media, and other data together – regardless of its format and whether it’s structured or unstructured – and be able to analyze it. The challenge is moving, replicating, and centralizing a wide variety of data efficiently, cost-effectively, and quickly enough to meet business demands for active insight. SAP® Replication Server® can help. SAP Replication Server enables the continuous movement of mission-critical application data.

    Sample Customers
    Vale, Hot Telecommunication, UPMC
    Medtronic, Cirque du Soleil, Antarc, B&G Manufacturing, EarlySense, eBay, Ferrero, James Austin Company, Lenovo, Sagem, RAK Ceramics, Vodafone
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm23%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Government7%
    Insurance Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Energy/Utilities Company7%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise70%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise71%
    Buyer's Guide
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    Informatica Persistent Data Masking is ranked 6th in Data Masking with 5 reviews while SAP Replication Server is ranked 14th in Database Development and Management with 6 reviews. Informatica Persistent Data Masking is rated 7.8, while SAP Replication Server is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Informatica Persistent Data Masking writes "Enables secure data protection during testing and controlled access to sensitive information". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Replication Server writes "Eliminates replication and allows you to use only one database, speeding up performance and reducing amount of storage". Informatica Persistent Data Masking is most compared with Delphix, Protegrity Data Security, IBM Security Guardium Data Protection, IBM InfoSphere Optim and Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, whereas SAP Replication Server is most compared with Qlik Replicate, Oracle GoldenGate, Fivetran, Azure Data Factory and SSIS.

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