Overview
DATPROF is a Netherlands-based company with fewer than 20 employees, primarily serving European SMBs. Its test data management tool, which covers data masking, subsetting, discovery, and basic orchestration, is generally positioned for departmental environments.
K2view, with close to 200 employees and a global footprint, supports some of the world’s largest Fortune 500 enterprises. The K2view TDM solution – aka K2tdm –delivers a unified environment for test data management, data masking, and synthetic data generation. Powered by a unique test data management approach based on business entities, the K2view product preserves referential integrity and cross-system consistency. It’s also recognized as best of breed, maintaining a 5/5 Gartner Insights peer review rating averaged over the past 12 months.
Comparison table
The following table indicates how the 2 vendors stack up:
| Capability | DATPROF | K2view | K2view benefits |
| Test data management |
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Provides broad scale and functional depth |
| Data masking |
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Masks data more securely, contextually, and consistently |
| Synthetic data generation |
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Meets advanced testing needs such as new feature validation, regression, and load testing |
Key K2view advantages
K2view delivers an enterprise-ready test data environment built for global scale. Its business entity approach organizes data by real-world constructs, ensuring hierarchy, lineage, and relationships remain intact across diverse operational systems. This dramatically reduces complexity for testers and accelerates provisioning times from weeks to minutes through self-service functions like refresh, rollback, age, reserve, and load.
The K2view solution combines sensitive data discovery tools, test data management tools, data masking tools, and advanced synthetic data generation tools within a single experience, eliminating the fragmentation common in point tools. K2view is engineered for highly regulated enterprises with operational and architectural complexity.
DATPROF suitability
DATPROF is a good match for smaller teams that require a lightweight departmental test data tool. It offers competitive pricing, and is a good fit for organizations already leveraging the DATPROF ecosystem, especially in Europe. Its subsetting algorithm performs well in SMB environments, and the tool can address basic masking and provisioning requirements.
Overall assessment
DATPROF works well when teams need a small-footprint test data tool for limited-scope databases.
However, organizations operating across dozens of systems, mixed data formats, or regulated business lines, will experience significant advantages with K2view. With support for Snowflake data masking, Workday data masking, mainframe data masking, Oracle data masking, Salesforce data masking, and data masking tools for SQL Server – as well as SAP test data management tools – and more, K2view allows complex enterprises to deliver secure, high-fidelity test data with unparalleled speed and consistency.
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