Why go with DATPROF vs Delphix

Top reasons why companies use DATPROF vs Delphix

DATPROF has only one purpose: simplified test data. To achieve this with our tool you only need to do two things: 1) Create subsets to save time and money and 2) Mask (or generate synthetic) test data to be compliant. The order of these two steps is up to the customer. With the DATPROF Runtime portal your test teams can login and self refresh their own test data. That’s it!

Delphix offers another “solution”: data virtualization. We believe this solution currently does not really simplify test data. A lot of time is still lost finding and preparing test data and refreshing the data in VDBs. Beside, the teams that start working on the VDB will query the server. The amount and severity of these processes (depending on the amount of QA (teams)) will generate particularly high network traffic, with all possible costs.

Also read: The 5 biggest disadvantages of data virtualization

With data virtualization you may have decreased you storage costs, but you are still using copies of production. With DATPROF you can actually use less data which not only decreases the storage costs, but also improve the speed and quality of your development teams. You can also automate more tests with fit for purpose test data.

In short, we believe that subsetting and masking your test data is the easiest, fastest and cheapest solution for simplifying test data.

Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) is the next step after agile to speed up your IT development process. Part of this process is testing, and for this you need the right test data at the right time. That’s why many organizations use a test data management tool. But you won’t achieve a CI/CD pipeline with unhandy and complicated tools, right?

In 2017, Bloor already stated that the “ease of use and user experience are exceptional, and a cut above competing products in the space”. Now, 2 years later, DATPROF still ranks number 1 in the field of user-friendliness (Bloor 2019). 

DATPROF integrates with commonly used tools like Parasoft, Salesforce, Jenkins and Tosca. With respect to database support, one of the many advantages of DATPROF compared to Delphix is dat DATPROF supports DB2 Mainframe. We support the main databases like PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 iSeries, DB2 LUW. Many other database technologies can be supported as well. 

To ensure ease of use and cost containment, you’ll need scalable Test Data Management. With the use of DATPROF Runtime, a central management tool, you have a unified view into all DATPROF applications. This results in a simple and consistent management process, regardless the size of your environment(s).

Delphix uses only one application. That means that when your environment grows, you’ll need more instances. Each instance is managed seperately and independently. So growing environments ensures a growing management burden, more complexity, cost and failure risk.

DATPROF typically sells licenses which result in significant savings because you only pay for the software once and then just maintenance thereafter. Delphix, in contrast, licenses their solutions on a per TB annual subscription basis. That means that you’re required to pay every single year. This makes it hard for the tool to pay for itself quickly.

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