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 and consistent application development and testing environments is the first step in delivering reliable applications, enhancements and upgrades. However, cloning large production databases for testing purposes increases the time needed to run test cases. In addition, cloned data may not support the specific error and boundary conditions required for effective testing. Special test cases may be required before testing can begin. Lastly, manually validating test results is often time consuming and error prone. With so much test data to manage, costs can quickly spiral. Testing cycles are extended. 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. Developers and quality assurance testers can create realistic, "right-sized" test databases, create targeted test scenarios, protect privacy and compare "before" and "after" test results with speed and accuracy. Optim's capabilities for creating and managing test data enable sites to save valuable processing time, ensure consistency and reduce costs throughout the application lifecycle.
