OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, June 26, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ --
Grid-Tools Ltd, the leading vendor in test data management solutions,
announces today the launch of their newest data masking solution, Simple
Data Masking. The tool will offer end-customers basic, easy-to-use data
obfuscation for small to medium sized projects at a highly competitive
price. Systems analysts will be able to choose from a rich array of
standard functions and standard seed tables complemented by their own
custom masking functions. The masking rules will be stored in spread
sheets and users will be able to utilize just one tool for all major
database types and file formats, including flat files. The tool can also
provide an audit of exactly what has been masked and can ensure that
data is converted to the same masked value across applications and
across different database types. The cross database masking allows users
to guarantee the business integrity allowing end-to-end tests on
complex applications.
The tool has already been sold into a large business intelligence
solutions provider based in Boston in the United States. Power Advocate,
specialists in business intelligence platforms for the energy industry,
required the solution to de-identify production data for application
development. Liz Neiderman, QA Manager for Power Advocate stated, "We
needed a custom data masking solution to de-identify production data so
it could be distributed amongst our developers securely. We found Simple
Data Masking to be incredibly powerful, simple and effective. It has
worked very well for all of our needs so far and it masks exactly what
we want to mask. We've also been impressed with the Grid-Tools support
team, who have been incredibly helpful and quick to answer our support
requests."
Data masking is the process of de?identifying or obscuring specific data
within a database table or column whilst maintaining the business
integrity of the original environment. Once the data is masked, it
adheres to compliance measures and can be used safely outside of
production environments for testing, development and QA projects.
Grid-Tools will be offering the solution as part of the Datamaker suite,
which includes solutions for data masking, database subsetting, data
generation and end-to-end test data management for all major database
types.
For more information contact Grid-Tools on UK: +44 (0) 1865 884600 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +44 (0) 1865 884600 end_of_the_skype_highlighting, USA: 1-866-563-3120 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 1-866-563-3120 end_of_the_skype_highlighting http://www.grid-tools.com or sales@grid-tools.com.
About Grid-Tools Limited:
Grid-Tools are specialists in data creation, data masking and test data
management. Their experienced personnel have been writing and developing
solutions for large companies in both the private and public sectors
for nearly 30 years.
The Grid-Tools Datamaker suite includes a wide range of tools for test
data management including such innovative products as Datamaker , a
revolutionary tool that creates and publishes quality test data with the
referential integrity of production environments for testing and
development. Datamaker offers three methods for managing and generating
data, inclusive of database subsetting, data obfuscation (data masking
and data de-identification) and synthetic data generation.
The Grid-Tools methodology consists of using the "data-centric" approach
to testing, whereby their focus is to ensure the quality of the test
data being used is of the right quality for successful testing.