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DATPROF vs K2view

Written by Amitai Richman | December 7, 2025
A comparison of DATPROF vs K2view test data management, data masking, and synthetic data generation, indicating scale, coverage, and enterprise readiness. 

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 
  • Suitability for smaller teams 

  • Support for subsetting and data discovery 

  • Limited multi-system or mainframe compatibility 

  • Business entity approach simplifies complex, multi-source provisioning 

  • Full TDM environment with discovery, masking, subsetting, orchestration, and self-service 

  • Support for any system for complete test coverage 

Provides broad scale and functional depth 
Data masking 
  • Support for departmental databases and narrow files  

  • User reviews reporting template rework and limited automation 

  • Inflight masking, so no PII resides at rest 

  • Dozens of customizable functions 

  • Integration with any source 

  • Business entity approach, to maintain context and referential integrity 

  • Foundation for broad TDM and SDG programs 

Masks data more securely, contextually, and consistently 
Synthetic data generation 
  • General availability, but bugs and rework reported 

  • Limited method diversity 

  • End-to-end lifecycle coverage: subset and mask training data, generate synthetic data, and orchestrate downstream 

  • 4 SDG methods: Rules, cloning, masking, GenAI 

  • Business entity approach, for relationship retention across systems 

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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