All products go through a proof-of-concept to ensure they work as advertised and work within our environment.

I met with Informatica, as they offer a similar product. It performs the same functionality as Optim. When I asked why is Informatica better than IBM, I was told their technical support would smile when we asked questions. Needless to say, there is no reason to leave IBM.

We evaluated and compared three other COTS TDM solutions.

Other options were evaluated including tools like CA Test Data Manager.

Before choosing this product, we also evaluated Informatica Test Data Management and Oracle Data Masking.

I have no idea if our architecture team looked at alternatives. I started to use the tool as developer.