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Broadcom Test Data Manager pros and cons

Vendor: Broadcom
4.2 out of 5
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PROS

Broadcom Test Data Manager allows fast data masking at the source environment, eliminating the need for encrypted data transfer.
The tool facilitates significant time savings by automating data management processes, including synthetic data creation and automated testing.
It provides excellent scalability, handling both small and large data sets efficiently.
Broadcom Test Data Manager supports synthetic data generation with flexibility for complex rules and combinations, ensuring data privacy and meeting specific regulatory requirements.
The combination of extract, mask, load, and synthetic data creation offered by Broadcom Test Data Manager meets diverse client needs efficiently.

CONS

Users report slow data delivery speeds from Broadcom Test Data Manager, specifically with databases like Teradata, which affects efficiency.
Challenges arise with the initial setup of Broadcom Test Data Manager, including network and firewall issues, which require extensive troubleshooting.
Testers face difficulties with Broadcom Test Data Manager when managing high volumes of data or handling multiple environments, as data management features are limited.
Integration with various utilities and support for a wider range of data sources, such as cloud-native SaaS solutions, is lacking in Broadcom Test Data Manager.
Extended functionality is needed in Broadcom Test Data Manager for tasks like data warehousing and integration with tools like Jira for efficient task management.
 

Broadcom Test Data Manager Pros review quotes

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Senior Test Data Management Specialist at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Oct 30, 2016
Customer Service: Above and beyond that of any company that I’ve worked with before.
it_user542772 - PeerSpot reviewer
COE Consultant Test at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Oct 31, 2016
By using this product we are able to provide test data for the development and testing teams, removing the dependency on production data and allowing us to comply with non-disclosure rules for personally identifiable information through data masking techniques.
it_user558156 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality Assurance at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 4, 2017
It has really changed the culture in the company because nobody could ever imagine generating millions of records.
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it_user558477 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 8, 2016
It doesn’t only cover our data masking needs, but also our data subsetting and synthetic data generation needs.
it_user558504 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Dec 1, 2016
The most valuable feature of the product is its ability to generate and scrub test data.
it_user466854 - PeerSpot reviewer
Practice Leader - DevOps at CIBER
Dec 2, 2016
CA Test Data Manager is enormously helpful to us.
it_user572823 - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP Quality Assurance at GM Financial
Feb 13, 2017
Test Data Manager allows you to do synthetic data generation, gives you a high level of confidence in your data that you're creating, and keeps you out of the SOX arena because there's no production data within that environment.
it_user572886 - PeerSpot reviewer
Client Partner at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
Feb 12, 2017
Just use it as a proof of concept and you'll see the power of the TDM.
it_user572907 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Specialist at Cox Automotive
Feb 13, 2017
When I look at the return on investment, there are not only huge financial gains on it, in fact, when I recently ran the numbers, we had about $1.1 million in savings on just the financials from 2016 alone.
it_user752190 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Oct 10, 2017
The whole process is done by functions which are compiled on the source environment itself. Normally, you take the data from the source, you manage them - for example, mask them - and then you load this masked data into the destination. With this solution, it's completely different. On the source environment, there are functions compiled inside the environment, which means they are amazingly fast and, on the source environment, data are masked already. So when you take them, you already take masked data from the source. So you can copy them, even with an unencrypted pipe.
 

Broadcom Test Data Manager Cons review quotes

AT
Senior Test Data Management Specialist at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Oct 30, 2016
An increase in the types of programmatic capabilities could allow the tool to be more powerful.
it_user542772 - PeerSpot reviewer
COE Consultant Test at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Oct 31, 2016
Product is quite stable but it has some functional bugs which are fixed as soon as they are reported to the support team.
it_user558156 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality Assurance at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 4, 2017
It is not very scalable because even to generate maybe a couple of million records, it takes six to seven hours.
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it_user558477 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 8, 2016
The current version of the product is composed of several sub applications and the UI screens of those apps are not user-friendly enough.
it_user558504 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Dec 1, 2016
I would like to see more support for generating the data for loading performance.
it_user466854 - PeerSpot reviewer
Practice Leader - DevOps at CIBER
Dec 2, 2016
Initial setup was complex in comparison to other solutions for which we did proof-of-concept.
it_user572823 - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP Quality Assurance at GM Financial
Feb 13, 2017
I would probably like to see improvement in the ease of the rule use.
it_user572886 - PeerSpot reviewer
Client Partner at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
Feb 12, 2017
That quickness I think is something that can be improved.
it_user572907 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Specialist at Cox Automotive
Feb 13, 2017
If I was going to look at one thing that I am hoping they are going to improve on is – it is a great database tool – I'm not always sure about the programmatic abilities of it.
it_user752190 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Oct 10, 2017
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.