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DO YOU STILL PROTECT YOUR SENSITIVE DATA BY PUTTING IT AWAY IN A DRAWER?Imagine an innovative solution that can help you meet data privacy requirements and improve the quality of your development processes.

100% SAFE DATA

DATA MASKING

DATABASESUBSETTING

TEST DATAMANAGEMENT

DATA INTEGRITY

INTEROPERABILITY

TEST DATAGENERATION

Nowadays, with the increasing data security threats that businesses face, organizations are required to re-evaluate their data management strategies as they may inadvertently breach data privacy rules while copying sensitive production data into non-production environments.

How to protect sensitive data without incurring signi�cant costs?

How to support rapid, agile deployment and reduce costs without compromising quality?

How often were tests performed without the required rigor due to the lack of quality data?

How many times have two or more projects had to share the same test environment due to the lack of available disk and compute resources?

How many times have your projects been delayed because of the time and e�ort required to provide new environments?

IT organizations, whether they are re-engineering systems, testing new applications or building extensions to existing ones, need realistic development and testing environments in order to deliver quality solutions. On one hand, developing meaningful test data manually (copy and edit production data orcreate new data) is a tedious and colossal task. On the other hand, cloning large productiondata is expensive, ine�cient, increases testing cycle times and is prone to risk of data breach by exposing sensitive data to developers and contractors.

MANAGING TEST DATA AND MASKING SENSITIVE INFORMATION ARE GROWING IMPERATIVES IN MODERN ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS ALL INDUSTRIES, AS EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS TO SOLVE THIS CHALLENGE

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your challenge

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DATAPEERS® provides an innovative and automated data masking solution to help organizations address data privacy require-ments and to improve the quality of deve-lopment processes, testing, training and software certi�cation

DATAPEERS® is a complete suite that allows automated creation of non-production databases, based on consistent subsets of production data, as well as a controlled generation of test data to meet the most demanding software testing standards.

the solution

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what is it?DATAPEERS® KEY FEATURES:Sophisticated masking techniques to protect sensitive dataAutomated detection of data dependencies and hidden correlationsIntelligent data subsettingProvision of meaningful, relevant and consistent data among di�erent environmentsCompliance with major data protection standards

DATAPEERS® KEY BENEFITS:Securely masks and protects sensitive information, increasing compliance with internal and external regulationsEnforces organizations test data management policiesProduces certi�ed quality data in all environmentsEnsures data integrity and consistency across di�erent environmentsProduces test data (synthesized or originated from production) according to your exact needsMinimizes environments deployment times and improves quality accuracyExpands test coverage and minimizes the number of test cycles requiredProduces controlled test cases, resulting in a signi�cant reduction in software defects going to productionProvides the ability to share data in a safe way

RETURN ON INVESTMENT, GUARANTEED:Increases up to 80% DBA productivity by fully automating most test data management tasksReduces test costs by up to 75%Time to deploy new environments is shortened by a factor of 50% or moreIncreased data quality results in less than 40% the average number of re-test cyclesReduces infrastructure costs through disk storage and server optimizationMost ROI is usually achieved in less than 6 months following DATAPEERS® implementation

INTEROPERABILITY

As DATAPEERS® is purely based on meta-models, it has excellent cross--database features.

It provides a simple and easy-to-use interface to your many di�erent DBMS: Informix, DB2, SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, PostgreSQL, to name but a few.

DATAPEERS® is also certi�ed for the most common Operating Systems such as Microsoft Windows Server™, Linux, AIX™, Solaris™ and HP-UX™.

Besides any custom developed software, it is already prepared to be integrated with market leading software packages such as Oracle® Applications and SAP®.

DATAPEERS® is an extremely valuable toolset, whether you are a database administrator, analyst, tester or developer.

TEST DATAMANAGEMENT

INTEROPERABILITY

DATABASESUBSETTING

TEST DATAGENERATION

DATA SUBSETTING

With the challenges of Big Data, IT organizations came to realise the value of determining right-sized subsets of production data to be used in development, testing and QA environments.

DATAPEERS® allows organizations to consistently create numerous subsets of data that accura-tely re�ect the original production database and meet the speci�c requirements of each type of testing, eliminating the need of cloning a full production database, thus minimizing storage and computer requirements, trimming costs while expanding test coverage and improving test span and quality accuracy.

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TEST DATA GENERATION

For testing database-driven application performance, an empty database is useless. Creating test data sets or data generation scripts manually is a dull, time-consuming and resource-wasting task.

DATAPEERS® includes a powerful data generator that allows testers, developers and administrators (DBAs) to automatically populate databases with comprehensive, meaningful and realis-tic test data.

DATAPEERS® analyses existing database schemas and, based on a metadata model, automatically resolves master-detail relations for optimal data generation rules. DATAPEERS® generates test data from scratch or from existing data that is representative of your production environment.

Complete data setSensitive dataProtected environment

Partial data setsMasked sensitive dataProtected environment

DevelopersOutsourcersSubcontractors

PRODUCTION

DEVELOPMENT

TRAINING

QA

Intelligent subsettingAdvanced masking

DATA MASKING

DATA INTEGRITY

DATA INTEGRITY

DATAPEERS® automatically detects data dependencies and captures hidden correlations.

By taking into consideration the associated dependent data and keeping its original business context in the masking process, DATAPEERS® ensures that the masked value is consistent across the related data and enforces its referential integrity.

Preserving data integrity and consistency across various environment and di�erent databa-ses technologies is a key point for test data management, which is ensured by DATAPEERS®.

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DATA MASKING

Masking all sensitive data to be used in non-production environments (when it is more vulnerable to fraud or theft) is an imperative for every modern organization.

However, IT organizations no longer rely on commonly used methods and processes to desensitise Perso-nally Identi�able Information (PII) that encrypt records with random characters or scramble it with basic scripting techniques, manually or using in-house resources. These methods and processes are slow, expensi-ve, error-prone, drive resources away from testing and seldom generate relevant and consistent data requi-red for quality tests.

The only way to mitigate this risk is to use DATAPEERS®, a toolset that o�ers a variety of sophisticated scrambling techniques to protect sensitive data (such as: customers, employees and key stake holders’ names, birth dates, addresses, payroll, account numbers, phone numbers, social security numbers) irreversibly replacing it by �ctitious yet realistic data, in compliance with all major corporate and government data protection rules and regulations (HIPAA, GLBA, PCI-DSS, PIPEDA and the EU Data Protection Directive) whilst consistently provisioning smaller, rich, meaningful sets of masked data.

By applying these state of the art techniques, DATAPEERS® allows organizations to simplify and automate their complex masking requirements while ensuring data integrity.

licensingDATAPEERS® o�ers you di�erent types of license: perpetual, subscription, software as a service and OEM. We are dedicated to working closely with you to identify the speci�c needs of your business and to provide the ideal solution for you and for your company. For further information or to request a quote, please feel free to contact an authorized dealer.