Solution Brief
Power Your Test Data Needs with TD Maxim
A Cognizant – Informatica Solution
TD MAXIM
A Cognizant-Informatica Solution
Benefits
• Improve application quality
with industry-leading test data
management tools
• Ensure timely go-lives with
proven test data management
methodologies
Test data plays a vital role in ensuring the effectiveness of testing. IT organizations spend
an enormous amount of time and effort to create and provision data for testing. This activity
is mundane and cumbersome. Research suggests that testers spend more than 20% of their
time on test data-related activities. What is more deterring is that poor or incorrect data can
lead to defect injection.
Industry analysts state that there are not many proven tools in the market to generate,
sanitize, and provision data for testing on demand. The tools available currently require
high levels of customization before deployment. IT organizations need a solution that can
automatically create and provision test data with high precision.
Cognizant, in association with Informatica®, introduces TD Maxim, a solution to address
the data needs for testing activities of your organization. In addition to generating ondemand data for your testing needs, the TD Maxim framework can also help with test data
generation, data subset, masking, and sanitization. The architecture of TD Maxim enables
high levels of data reuse and works well in distributed environments.
• Eliminate risk of a data
breach with integrated data
security best practices
TD MAXIM
A Cognizant-Informatica Solution
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data subset and
masking policies
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process masking
and subset policies
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synthetic test data
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completeness, and
compliance of test
data management
processes
Figure 1. Test Data Strategy with TD Maxim
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TD Maxim is an amalgam of Informatica’s Test Data Management solution and Cognizant’s
Test Data Management services. Cognizant can now offer customized test data services
to fit your unique needs. The winning feature of TD Maxim is its ability to interface with
enterprise data sources such as RDBMS, mainframe and legacy file types. The framework is
customizable to complement data from sources that include packaged applications such as
SAP, Siebel, or other cloud sources.
TD Maxim is a product of Cognizant’s domain expertise and testing experience, and
the data expertise of Informatica. With TD Maxim you can gain faster, higher-quality, and
more efficient execution cycles.
Case Study
A major, US-based retailer had been facing challenges in managing data for testing
because of its heterogeneous environment. Cognizant created a working model for test
data management while leveraging Informatica’s ILM suite. With deployment of TD Maxim,
Cognizant was able to create an integrated framework for automation, generating a test
bed in a single click. TD Maxim helped the retailer reduce the time to provision data by
over 95% and achieve a 33% reduction in cycle time.
About Cognizant
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting,
and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world’s leading
companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.),
Cognizant combines a passion for client satisfaction, technology innovation, deep industry
and business process expertise, and a global, collaborative workforce that embodies
the future of work. With over 75 development and delivery centers worldwide and
approximately 178,600 employees as of March 31, 2014, Cognizant is a member of the
NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 2000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked
among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world. Visit us online at
www.cognizant.com or follow us on Twitter: Cognizant.
About Informatica
Informatica Corporation
(Nasdaq:INFA) is the world’s
number one independent provider
of data integration software.
Organizations around the world
rely on Informatica to realize
their information potential and
drive top business imperatives.
Informatica Vibe, the industry’s
first and only embeddable virtual
data machine (VDM), powers
the unique “Map Once. Deploy
Anywhere.” capabilities of the
Informatica Platform. Worldwide,
over 5,000 enterprises depend on
Informatica to fully leverage their
information assets from devices
to mobile to social to big data
residing on-premise, in the Cloud
and across social networks.
For more information, visit
www.informatica.com
Worldwide Headquarters, 100 Cardinal Way, Redwood City, CA 94063, USA Phone: 650.385.5000 Fax: 650.385.5500
Toll-free in the US: 1.800.653.3871 informatica.com linkedin.com/company/informatica twitter.com/InformaticaCorp
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