Marketing description

Your organization depends on business-critical applications to drive results. But it is a challenge to stay within tight budgets, while striving to speed the deployment of new applications, upgrades and enhancements.
Creating realistic application development and testing environments is critical to delivering the right solutions for the business. However, cloning large production databases for development and testing purposes extends cycle times, increases the amount of data propagated across the organization, and significantly raises costs.
In addition, cloned data may not support the specific error and boundary conditions required for effective testing. Test cases may require data specific to your test before testing can begin. Lastly, manually validating test results is often time consuming and error prone. With so much test data to manage, time and costs can quickly spiral. Maintenance burdens increase. Rolling out new features requires much more of your organization's time and resources.
Your ultimate goal is to deliver reliable application functionality to support operational best practices, stay competitive and generate revenue. So how can you support rapid application deployment and reduce costs, without sacrificing quality?
The IBM Optim Test Data Management Solution offers proven technology to optimize and automate processes that create and manage data in non-production (testing, development and training) environments. Development and testing teams can create realistic, "right-sized" test databases, made up of one or more business objects, for targeted test scenarios. The Optim Test Data Management Solution can help your organization to protect data privacy by applying masking routines to de-identify data. Additionally, the solution will compare the data from "before" and "after" testing with speed and accuracy. Optim's capabilities for creating and managing test data enable organizations to save valuable processing time, ensure consistency and reduce costs throughout the application lifecycle.

Key selling points

• Create referentially intact, "right-sized" test databases
• Automate test result comparisons to identify hidden errors
• Easily refresh and maintain "production-like" test environments
• Shorten iterative testing cycles and accelerate time to market

Product features

• Creating production-like environments for application testing
  In contrast to cloning large production databases, a more effective alternative is to implement test data management and subsetting capabilities that minimize storage requirements, while expanding test coverage. It is much faster to test with smaller, realistic subsets that accurately reflect the production data.
• Protecting privacy in development, testing and training environments
  Optim also offers a variety of methods for masking test data to protect privacy and support regulatory compliance initiatives. Sites can leverage context-aware data masking routines to de-identify key data elements across your applications. Optim captures and accurately processes application data elements so that the masked data does not violate application logic and produces valid results.
• Automate data comparisons and analyze results
  The ability to analyze and validate test results is critical for ensuring application quality. The database size and complexity significantly increase the effort involved in examining test results. After a test run, Optim analyzes the "before" and "after" images of the data, automatically detecting any differences and presenting the results in a concise report, saving you countless hours of manual inspection.
• Automate business object discovery to ensure accuracy and speed implementation
  Successful projects begin with an accurate representation of the business object to be subset. Business objects are defined using relationships among data elements. These relationships can be either explicitly declared within the database, or inferred within the data itself.
• Supporting your Enterprise Environments
  Optim provides a central data management solution that scales to meet enterprise needs. In addition to supporting your custom and packaged applications, Optim is the only solution to provide a consistent data archiving, test data management and data privacy approach across the leading ERP and CRM applications.