Micro Focus

Data Express

IT must support key business objectives and deliver high quality applications while meeting all forms of governance and compliance requirements. To achieve this means a rigorous, comprehensive and security-conscious testing and QA infrastructure. 

Micro Focus Data Express is a suite of tools to help create appropriate subsets of large volumes of production data for testing purposes while meeting stringent data privacy requirements.

 Product Datasheet

Highlights 

With Micro Focus Data Express data administrators and other development and testing staff can:

  • Load data from a variety of different databases into a single repository for analysis, understanding and consistent categorization of data fields across all databases including:

- DB2 on IBM z/OS
- GDG files, IMS DB on IBM z/OS and ADABAS on IBM z/OS
- VSAM data files and Sequential files on IBM z/OS
- Oracle databases on Windows, UNIX or Linux
- SQL Server databases on Windows

  • Set up masking rules based on the various data categorizations to ensure access to data within the organization complies with appropriate data privacy regulations, legislation and corporate governance standards

  • Define appropriate subsets of data that can be generated automatically (on demand) to enable higher quality testing to be performed

- Faster
- More accurately
- More regularly

While

- Drastically reducing costs of test data storage
- Adhering to all data privacy requirements
- Dramatically reducing cost of MIPS and time taken to execute tests

Benefits

  • Compliance with data privacy regulations, legislation and policies - Improved Governance via adherence with data privacy requirements during testing
  • Additional IT capabilities to support business strategy delivered consistently faster - QA is a significant % of overall delivery timeframes so faster test set up and test runs mean earlier delivery
  • Improved Quality of Service (QOS) for internal users and external customers - Ability to test more thoroughly but significantly faster and with less effort
  • Reduced costs - Decreased test data storage requirements, reduced testing MIPS and less effort and rework within IT