We performed a comparison between Informatica Persistent Data Masking and SQL Sentry based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Delphix, Broadcom, DATPROF and others in Data Masking."The most valuable features are the structure masking and platform masking."
"Informatica provides a comprehensive solution for on-the-fly or real-time data masking."
"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 feature is data discovery. This is the most exciting feature for all of the banks."
"Informatica Persistent Data Masking can mask production data for different users, ensuring that only authorized individuals can access sensitive information."
"To be able to go back in history and find out what was happening at certain times is the most valuable feature of the product."
"This solution has identified blocking, deadlock, memory pressure, and high CPU consumption issues."
"Informatica should simplify the rules for setting classifications and user access management permissions. It's too complex to define, configure, and make work."
"Once the data is masked, we won't be able to reverse it back to its original value."
"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."
"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."
"I have encountered some issues using the substitution, which is one of the techniques of data masking."
"There could be some more metrics on the high availability to let us know when there are issues synchronizing between the hosts."
"If we can get details on wait types from system views, it will help identify a more detailed root cause."
Informatica Persistent Data Masking is ranked 10th in Data Masking with 5 reviews while SQL Sentry is ranked 8th in Database Development and Management with 2 reviews. Informatica Persistent Data Masking is rated 7.8, while SQL Sentry is rated 9.0. 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 SQL Sentry writes "Lets you know when your jobs are taking longer than average and allows you to go back in history and find out what was happening at certain times". Informatica Persistent Data Masking is most compared with Delphix, IBM InfoSphere Optim, Protegrity Data Security, IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and Oracle GoldenGate, whereas SQL Sentry is most compared with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server, Quest Spotlight, Redgate SQL Toolbelt and Quest Foglight for Databases.
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