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Perforce Delphix

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What is Perforce Delphix?

Delphix, from Perforce, provides test data management for DevOps. The Delphix DevOps Data Platform automates data security, while rapidly deploying test data to accelerate application releases.

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Delphix - Modern solution provider

Incentivized
Krinal PatelView profile
Software Engineer in Information Technology at Rishabh Software (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It was difficult for the client to compile daily reports since the data included a large number of customers and government information, placing the company in danger of breaking data privacy rules. Therefore, we used Delphix, a data misrepresentation tool that lets the customer comply with GDPR, CCPA, and other data governance/compliance rules while also saving both time and money in the process.

Pros

  • Identification of sensitive data fields.
  • Collaboration with support team.
  • Cross-platform data transmission.

Cons

  • Trial version is not available.
  • Price is high but felt worthy after usage.

Most Important Features

  • Data masking.
  • Significantly affected operational cost.
  • Helps in regulatory or audit compliance.

Return on Investment

  • The data transformation process enhanced dramatically.
  • Data privacy.
  • Role-based data security.

Other Software Used

Kubernetes, Apache Camel, Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka

Top Test Data Management Tool

Incentivized
Paul ChristophleView profile
SQL Developer/Data Analyst at Coop (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Delphix has been giving me an edge by allowing me to push test data management capabilities to the developer/tester empowering them to be their own data operator to bookmark, rewind, and refresh data as needed.
  • My data stays protected with security policies and regulatory compliance.
  • Delphix is also a great tool as it can move and manage data from any premises, cloud, or environment.

Cons

  • Delphix is a hefty solution for virtualization, but it is not strong enough for the creation of data, so we have to use another platform when it comes to creating new data.
  • Moreover, Delphix web pages do not support AD security groups which eventually results in hassle if you have a large number of users to create and maintain passwords.

Most Important Features

  • Version controlling with codes.
  • Data collaboration.
  • customization.

Return on Investment

  • Delphix has a brilliant way of documentation online.
  • Delphix has the constant need to improve its quality and fix bugs quickly as well as transparently.
  • With Delphix, my data remains secured.

Other Software Used

LastPass for Business, Docker, GitLab

Delphix: the best dataops platform

Javier BartheView profile
Data Architect in Information Technology at Swiss Medical group (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Storage consumption reduction.
  • Data environments self service for consumers.
  • Excellent documentation online.
  • Great community for support you.
  • Great company with great people working on it.

Cons

  • No cons

Return on Investment

  • Positive ROI on the first year.
  • Low TCO as really easy to use and manage.
  • Avoid technology vendor lock in.
  • Avoid technology difficulties to manage data, one ingested Delphix is on charge.

Other Software Used

SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database

Test Data Management Analysis

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Engineering (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

To do all the Test refreshes for the Application developers to test the data in prod. Delphix helps in transforming the data space in virtualization by compressing the data and creating virtual databases so that they can be accessed anywhere and refreshing the data in MDM systems is a big advantage of this tool. Data Masking is also another important option that organizations can leverage.

Pros

  • Data Virtualization
  • Data refresh
  • Data masking
  • Functionality and Performance
  • Strong Customer Focus

Cons

  • UI improvement
  • More data sources
  • Encryption options
  • Data Masking
  • Handling sensitive information

Most Important Features

  • Test Data for CICD
  • Multi cloud
  • Data Privacy and Security
  • Data Virtualization

Return on Investment

  • Improving Developer experience
  • Protecting sensitive data of customers
  • Performance and Efficiency

Alternatives Considered

Solix Common Data Platform (Solix CDP)

Other Software Used

MANTA Flow, erwin Data Modeler

2+ years into the Delphix Data Virtualization and Data Masking Journey and things are good!

Verified User
Director in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Fast refresh of production data to non-production environments.
  • Easy to automate tasks in Delphix (Bookmark, Rewind, Refresh, etc.) and build pipelines in tools like Jenkins. Enables CI/CD push button build of new virtual database and also the ability to automate regression testing scenarios as well as provide a simple way to expose self-service to developers & testers.
  • The staff at Delphix are knowledgeable and take a genuine interest in helping their customers succeed. The support organization is among the best I've seen.
  • Delphix is good at notifying customers of bugs & features striking a good balance on sending the right amount and type of communication.
  • Delphix is always improving the product and fixing any bugs quickly and transparently.
  • Delphix Data Masking product works as described and allows for multiple streams of masking concurrently to complete masking faster.

Cons

  • User/PWD management in the Delphix Self-Service web page does not support LDAP nor AD security groups. This creates a hassle if you have a large number of self-service users to create and maintain passwords for. The fix for this is supposed to be the new Central Management tool. We just ended up creating jobs in Jenkins (which supports groups) using the python-examples scripts from the Delphix Github.
  • Reporting on storage and performing capacity planning is not easy when running many (20+) virtual databases. The latest release and new Central Management tool are both supposed to storage reporting much better.
  • Delphix Data Masking tool could handle masking of complex flat files better. We ended up creating a tagger and un-tagger to add/remove metadata to enable Delphix masking to be able to mask our complex flat file. Would have been nice if that capability was already built into the masking tool.

Return on Investment

  • The ROI has been positive reducing db refresh from 4 days to 4 minutes, putting data operations in the hands of the developer/tester, all while removing the myriad of steps of a prod/non-prod refresh is in line with Agile philosophy of removing waste and moving the work closer to people that need to do it (the developers)!
  • ROI is easier to obtain if you are already an Agile development shop and can take advantage of automating Delphix functions shortly after install.
  • The hard dollar savings comes from reduced storage costs and requires refreshing dev/test dbs regularly (i.e. every 3 months or more often) to realize the benefit.