GRID-TOOLS

LIMITED
On the seventh day God created
test data... Corporate
and man asked, “but, how did you Presentatio
do that?” n

2009

Grid Tools Ltd - Test Data

Management solutions
Who are Grid-Tools?
Specialists in Data Creation, Test Data Management and Information
Lifecycle Management
Founded in 2004, Grid-Tools is a privately
owned company located in Oxford,
England.

Our experienced personnel have been

writing and developing solutions for large
companies in both the private and public
sectors for nearly 30 years.

If you need to ensure legal compliance,

reduce operational costs or you’re looking
to implement best practice to dramatically
improve your development and testing...
Grid-Tools has the solution.

Within a very short span of time, Grid-

Tools has picked-up significant
momentum and an impressive list of well-
known customers.
Some of Grid-Tools’ key customers worldwide

ARAG IT GmbH
Some of Grid-Tools’ Strategic Partners world-wide
Some of Grid-Tools’ Technology Partners
 An introduction to Grid-Tools Data Suite
DatamakerDatamaker is the world’s most
advanced test data generator.
Create test data from scratch
without having to access
production, manage and manipulate
data in a central test data
repository, explode data objects for
rich sets of data, subset all major
database types and mask/obfuscate
Datamakersensitive
for Mainframe
data records.

Now Datamaker fully

supports all Mainframe
data sources.

Datamaker for Supported Database types

Mainframe and Mainframe data
offers all the functionality sources
(Includes data targets)
Data Test Professional
Data Test Professional (DTP) is a powerful product that
manages the data feeding capture playback tools such as
QTP, HP LoadRunner, Radview’s WebLoad and Facilita’s
Forecast. DTP is easy to use and increases the value of your
existing in-house performance tools by exercising more code
than ever before. Run more complete and accurate tests
and take control of manually created files. DTP allows you
to manage, manipulate, edit and explode your capture
playback data.

soapUI Data soapUI Data Pro offers integrated end-to-end data

Pro management and SOA testing. It provides superior support
for concurrent development and testing of Web Service
Projects and an integrated approach to managing the data
that is fed into and returned from requests. Data pools of
requested and stored responses are managed in a central
repository, allowing the results to be quickly checked
against expected results. A fast, fun and enterprise
solution, soapUI Data Pro offers the ability to store,
manage, manipulate and validate all of your SOA testing.
 DataERP
Do you need business intact data to test or customize your Oracle E-
Business applications? Look no further than DataERP. DataERP offers a
simple data solution for Oracle E-Business modules. With quick and easy
data packs used for testing, development, training and demos, you’ll no
longer struggle with creating and manipulating the data for your E-
Business database. DataERP offers rapid acceleration of data entry into
Fast Data Masking
E-Business modules.

The World’s Fastest Data Masking tool for Oracle! Rapidly Shrink,
Reorganize and Mask your Oracle test databases. 
Struggling with compliance issues? Do you need smaller test
databases?  Have you turned on Oracle compression?  Then look no
further than Fast Data Masking for Oracle, a one-stop shop that will
quickly save you disk space, improve the performance of your test
Data databases and mask your data ensuring you meet the highest
compliance standards.
Archive Data Archive proactively manages accelerated data growth caused by
the proliferation of new enterprise applications, new technology and legal
requirements. Database archiving is the only effective long-term solution
to data growth that ensures optimal performance of your mission critical
databases. Data Archive allows continued access to crucial historical
data to meet stringent compliance regulations, and can result in significant
storage cost savings.
 Data is the forgotten component in
testing
Developers and testers
struggle with data
• Creating data
= time consuming,
laborious, costly
• Gaining access
= data protection
legislation
• Ensuring integrity
= complex
• Getting enough
= load, stress and
performance testing
• Storage space
= not enough space for copies
of production

Most importantly…
 Manual testing – the usual meth
Producti
on

Copy Test
 SOLUTIONS FOR…
GT
DATAMAKER All Test Phases

Development
Subsetting/Data
Slicing ERP Implementations
Create Training
Production Environments
Offshore development
Data Obfuscation
Date shifted Data

Unit Testing
Data System Testing
Sampling Generated Data
Load/Performance/Str
ess
Regression Testing

Functional Testing

SOA Testing

End to End Testing

Demo / Dummy Data

 SOLUTIONS FOR…
GT
DATAMAKER All Test Phases

Development
Subsetting/Data
Slicing ERP Implementations
Create Training
Production Environments
Offshore development
Data Obfuscation
Date shifted Data

Unit Testing
Data System Testing
Sampling Generated Data
Load/Performance/Str
ess
Regression Testing

Functional Testing

SOA Testing

End to End Testing

Demo / Dummy Data

Multiple Copies of Production
Data

Copy Production
Production

Production

Production
Production
Production
Production Production
Production
Multiple Copies of Production
Data

Subset / Slice
Production

Subset
Subset Subset Subset
Developmen
QA QA2 Test
t

Subset
Subset Subset Subset
Developmen
QA3 QA4 Test2
t2
 SOLUTIONS FOR…
GT
DATAMAKER All Test Phases

Development
Subsetting/Data
Slicing ERP Implementations
Create Training
Production Environments
Offshore development
Data Obfuscation
Date shifted Data

Unit Testing
Data System Testing
Sampling Generated Data
Load/Performance/Str
ess
Regression Testing

Functional Testing

SOA Testing

End to End Testing

Demo / Dummy Data

 Scrambling Architecture

Clean Obfuscat
Production
Extract ed

Application
Staging Obfuscate
Production Production d

Generate
d

Production
 SOLUTIONS FOR…
GT
DATAMAKER All Test Phases

Development
Subsetting/Data
Slicing ERP Implementations
Create Training
Production Environments
Offshore development
Data Obfuscation
Date shifted Data

Unit Testing
Data System Testing
Sampling Generated Data
Load/Performance/Str
ess
Regression Testing

Functional Testing

SOA Testing

End to End Testing

Demo / Dummy Data

Widespread Test Data

Most Data is the

Same!
Less Data more
variety!

Datamaker
Datamaker
 SOLUTIONS FOR…
GT
DATAMAKER All Test Phases

Development
Subsetting/Data
Slicing ERP Implementations
Create Training
Production Environments
Offshore development
Data Obfuscation
Date shifted Data

Unit Testing
Data System Testing
Sampling Generated Data
Load/Performance/Str
ess
Regression Testing

Functional Testing

SOA Testing

End to End Testing

Demo / Dummy Data

 Data Centric Driven Testing

API
Batch

Test Data Warehouse

Data
Data Data
Inheritance Mass Edits
Explosion
Explosion Functions

Version Management
 Any work you do in one component can be
reused in the other

Database Data
Subsettin Coverage
g

Data Data
Masking Datamak Creation
er
Complete Data
Management
Suite

Data Data
Quality Archiving
 Grid-Tools - Contact us

Contact us to request a demo or a trial of our

software, or if you have questions about our data
suite.
We’d love to hear from you.
Grid-Tools Limited See us in action...
11 Oasis Business Park Schedule a webinar or live
On the seventh day God created
Eynsham, Oxford demo today!
test data...
Oxfordshire and man asked, “but, how did you
OX29 4TP do that?!!”
Ph: +44 (0) 1865 884600
USA: 1-866-563-3120
Email: Sales@grid-tools.com
Support: Support@grid-tools.com
Web: www.grid-tools.com

Grid-Tools Ltd
Solutions in Test Data Management