We are protecting our personal and sensitive information, while we provide test data to our customers for their business-as-usual and project testing.
One of the ways DATPROF has added value is that three years ago, before we had the solution, when an audit was done for non-SAP applications, there were always red flags. We, as a company, were not able to protect the data. The demand for doing so was there, but in big organizations you need the willingness as well. Once we found DATPROF, the red flag issue was eliminated. Audit-wise, we are now compliant.
And our customers are also happy because when they do any kind of project, it's not only about internal users because the systems are being exposed to multiple external people. That is where we are now able to protect our data.
For non-SAP, before we had DATPROF, we used a couple of workarounds. For example, we would write an SQL query to change a phone number from A to B, but for all phone numbers. If we had 40,000 customers and 40,000 phone numbers and wanted to mask the phone numbers, we would write a query to change all the phone numbers to 123-456-7890. But that's not scrambling, that's just a mass change, and it was manual work. Now, the results we get do not look like masking because it's real masking.