Test Data Management
While enterprise IT continues to adopt DevOps to accelerate delivery of solutions to both internal and external customers, one thing still holds them back: provisioning realistic data to test those solutions in a timely manner. With increasing complexity and system interdependencies, testing budgets now consume nearly one-third of all IT resources—and yet the time required for testing brings the agility of DevOps to a halt.
It’s a familiar story, even if your organization has embraced DevOps for years. Your IT team manages hundreds of siloed applications across multiple data centers, with data fragmented across as many unique, application-specific databases, both on-premise and in the cloud. Given all that data is needed in dozens if not hundreds of testing environments, it’s no wonder provisioning realistic, production-like test data is a far cry from “agile.”
That’s the trouble with traditional test data management in a DevOps environment. It involves manual requests, multiple teams, and time-consuming database backups and restores—so provisioning test data alone can take days or even weeks, forcing time to market cycle from three to six months—despite the agility DevOps promises to deliver. Testing teams simply can’t move fast enough to make a difference in development cycles in the current quarter, when new releases are really needed.
To deliver on that promise, your test data management has to be as just as agile as the rest of your DevOps pipeline. Your team needs production-like data that aligns with production environments while accounting for sensitive information. And they need self-service capabilities so they can access exactly the data they need, right when they need it—in real time, not days or weeks.
Despite all the cumbersome, manual, time-consuming requests, and the myriad of enterprise apps and databases, it’s more than a people and process problem. It’s a data problem.
A flexible DataOps solution that makes test data management as agile as the rest of your DevOps pipeline.
K2View TDM enables your test team to define what data it needs, then connects and auto-discovers your enterprise landscape to find that data, organizing it in digital entities that represent the systems, applications, and capabilities they need to test. It then delivers secure, real-time access of that data to the test team, with advanced features including:
K2View Test Data Management quickly auto-discovers and integrates data from any source based on the digital entity requirements provided—so testing teams spend less time retrieving and preparing data and more time testing and releasing applications.
We rapidly assemble, secure, and provision test data using the organizing principle of a micro-database. This can be anything—a customer, product, transaction, marketing campaign, or store—with all that entity’s information contained, along with masking and encryption to maintain the level of security.
K2View TDM. It’s DataOps for Test Data Management.
