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DATPROF vs IBM InfoSphere Optim Test Data Management (TDM) comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 1, 2024

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

DATPROF
Ranking in Test Data Management
7th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Data Masking (10th), AI Synthetic Data (4th)
IBM InfoSphere Optim Test D...
Ranking in Test Data Management
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Test Data Management category, the mindshare of DATPROF is 7.0%, up from 6.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM InfoSphere Optim Test Data Management (TDM) is 6.1%, down from 8.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Test Data Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM InfoSphere Optim Test Data Management (TDM)6.1%
DATPROF7.0%
Other86.9%
Test Data Management
 

Featured Reviews

Romil Kapadia - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Owner at ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
Easy to use, covers all the technology and database stacks, and provides good value for money
We had a Broadcom solution. We had an exit strategy for all the tools of this provider. The contracts were supposed to end. DATPROF is more open with respect to outside environments. Of course, it's not open-source technology, but there are provisions to do so, whereas, with earlier tools, that wasn't the case. Another good part of DATPROF is that because they have already been in the market and working with customers for a long time, they know the ins and outs of how the market in the Netherlands works. That was visible when we were performing use cases where the generation of test data was required. Everything that we could possibly think of is already covered by the tool. The inclusiveness or the wholesomeness of the tool is very good. DATPROF's UI is many years ahead of earlier tools. Broadcom's customer support was not up to our requirements. With DATPROF, even though we are just in the sales phase, I already see tremendous improvement. With the earlier tool, they were not able to provide the solutions that we wanted, whereas with DATPROF, Gerard, and Michael are just a call away, and they are willing to extend themselves to provide us with the right support.
Ajai Lal - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at Mphasis
Supports both legacy and non-legacy systems
The solution's initial setup is neither complex nor too easy. Around six or seven people, including database administrators, were involved in the solution's deployment. On a scale from one to ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy, I rate the solution's initial setup a four to five out of ten.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Its ease of use is valuable. It's pretty straightforward. With minimal training or with minimal guidance, it can be used."
"Today we are confident that our customers' sensitive data is not in anybody else's hands."
"The data modeling software gave additional insights for debugging in the case of circular foreign keys."
"The most valuable feature of DATPROF Privacy for us is the possibility to mask sensitive test and development data on different kinds of databases. Furthermore, the tool comes with different useful masking functions. It is possible to mask deterministic and it is possible to add your own functions. The tool has an intuitive interface and customer support is fast and efficient."
"We organized a TDM process with both DATPROF Subset and Privacy, fully self-service and fully automated with ServiceNow, Runbook, and Ctrl-M, and within 15 minutes users can establish a refreshed testing environment."
"We have some customers who are in both SAP and non-SAP. When we do scrambling for different applications, it is extremely important that DATPROF and the SAP applications talk to each other and synchronize. Otherwise... [an] identity [can be] lost, from a name perspective."
"We can create synthetic test data for our different development teams without needing production data, which is an excellent capability."
"Technical support is good. They are friendly and fast."
"Optim is a great tool for enterprise data movement, data masking, data sub-setting, data comparison, and data aging."
"IBM InfoSphere Optim Test Data Management can be found in the following platforms: Windows, Linux, *nix and z/OS; this presents a great opportunity to scale code and develop multiplatform libraries, updating the code once and deploying to all platforms."
"The solution can be used on both legacy and non-legacy systems."
"Data masking with consistency across databases and applications is the most valuable feature."
"Customer service is good."
"The product has helped to streamline the Test Data Management (TDM) process."
"I like the features compared to other tools, as this tool is more flexible to use than other tools like an Oracle product or SAP product, and I think IBM tools are more flexible, and this tool is also a good product."
"Makes it really easy to obfuscate big tables involving lots of columns and to manage 100’s of tables without putting in much effort."
 

Cons

"From what I know, there are some challenges with respect to the number of data formats that can be made available. This is something that can be improved."
"The solution is very stable in data masking but not yet entirely stable in data synthesis."
"Although it is possible to mask flat files inside DATPROF Privacy, the current solution is solid. However, it can be improved with an improved user interface."
"The synthetic data-generating element of the tool is relatively new, so we sometimes encounter bugs, though when we inform DATPROF, they act quickly to fix any issues. Of course, the fewer bugs we face, the better."
"The product could be improved by adding functions to mask flat files and XML data."
"I feel that we have to do a lot of reworking of the template implementations... Maybe it is a limitation, but as a customer, it feels like we need to start from scratch every time. It would help if we could reuse at least some of what we have already done."
"We organized the orchestration via ServiceNow/Runbook. It would be nice if DatProf software had this functionality as well."
"They could improve the solution by expanding the APIs. If there were options to integrate it with other solutions, that would help."
"Pricing and licensing is higher compared to other products."
"In the past, we have waited months for IBM to resolve the problem."
"TDM's efficiency in terms of generating reports needs improvement. It could work faster."
"The tool needs to have more test data management features like synthetic data generation and data reservation."
"Data masking with InfoSphere Optim products creates intermediary extract files and writing the data to persistent storage, which means that extraction, masking, and insertion happen being separate processes, taking more for the process to run."
"I would like to be able to combine different masking functions on the same column map, making more complex masking without the need of writing an Lua procedure."
"Installation is too cumbersome."
"In the IBM Optim tool, the Synthetic Test Data Generation feature is lagging behind."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's very competitive. There is a good price-to-feature relation. It doesn't give us the feeling that we are overspending on something. It provides the right value at the right price. It's worth it."
"I'm not part of the financial team, but as far as I understand, the price is very reasonable compared to the competitors."
"We purchase TDM's yearly license."
"You have to pay yearly for the license, which comes at a reduced cost. The monthly payment option for a shorter project duration is also good."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Healthcare Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
14%
Construction Company
8%
Insurance Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Large Enterprise8
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise14
 

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The solution does not need much maintenance. The solution is maintained by the infrastructure team. There is a separate team for the software installation. I would recommend the solution to other u...
 

Also Known As

DATPROF Privacy, DATPROF Test Data Management
IBM Optim Test Data Management, Optim Test Data Management, IBM InfoSphere Optim Test Data Management
 

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Sample Customers

APG, UWV, VGZ, DUO, Admiral Group, Heineken, Region Stockholm, Green Shield Canada, BestPass, CalPERS, Birmingham City Council, Nest Pensions
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