HP reduces organisational risk, speeds IT innovation with automated Test Data Management

Issued by Arcay Communications for HP

Johannesburg, 23 Jun 2010

HP today announced new software to accelerate application testing while reducing risks associated with new delivery models.

HP Test Data Management (TDM) lowers costs associated with application testing, reduces project delays and ensures sensitive data does not violate compliance regulations.

It automates the process of obtaining test data from live applications and accelerates testing based on automated data extraction and masking. This automation manages risk, frees up operation resources to do other things, and increases confidence in moving mission-critical applications into production.

“Leading organisations understand that reliable and repeatable testing processes, driven by business relevant test data, is essential to accelerating time to market, ensuring regulatory compliance and reducing costs of application implementations,” said Gangadharaiah CP, senior vice-president and worldwide head, Testing Services, Wipro Technologies. “HP's new Test Data Management tool, with its ability to provide test data on demand, coupled with Wipro's TDM Framework, will help us achieve these objectives for our customers while speeding delivery of testing projects.”

Preparing data for testing is extremely labour-intensive and can consume more than 50%(1) of overall testing time and resources. Human errors also are common when handling large amounts of data without a structured, automated solution. Hiding sensitive data to meet industry compliance regulations, such as Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) or Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), adds to the cost and margin of error.

HP TDM helps organisations

* Reduce business risk and avoid project delays by reducing the time required to extract large amounts of distributed data needed for testing.
* Ensure data remains secure, protected and out of the hands of hackers by masking sensitive data.
* Reduce the storage footprint and cost of data storage for databases used in testing environments.
* Accelerate application testing by streamlining the data preparation phase.

HP delivers the strongest set of solutions for application quality management on the market today with HP TDM, HP Quality Centre, HP Performance Centre and solutions for functional and load testing.

HP Software Professional Services offers technical assessments and software deployment services to help clients accelerate time to value of their HP TDM solution.

HP also is introducing new integrations between HP Quality Centre software and CollabNet TeamForge. This integration helps organisations improve communication and collaboration among business analysts, project managers, developers and quality assurance (QA) teams. This helps teams better define, develop and test applications in a distributed environment.

“Executives need to drive new innovations quickly without adding risk,” said Brindley, Solutions Architect, HP Software and Solutions, South Africa. “With HP Test Data Management and the new partnership with CollabNet, enterprise software teams can better collaborate and speed delivery of high quality software to power organisational innovation.”

HP Enterprise Services will adopt the HP Test Data Management solution as part of its testing and quality assurance services. HP will deliver the combined value of high-quality test cases managed in HP Quality Centre, with high-quality test data managed in HP Test Data Management as part of a comprehensive suite of testing and quality assurance services.

HP Test Data Management will be available worldwide on 1 July.

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