A robust test data management solution that provides immediate value by simplifying and accelerating your testing process. A single, secure in-flight workflow of the creation, obfuscation and management of your test data. No SQL required. Meridian’s AcceleTest application provides services that:

• Create real test data from live production data in an efficient and secure fashion

• Quickly isolates differences between test data sets (before and after views) in support of test data analysis tasks

These services were designed to help businesses streamline and automate the processes associated with the creation and management of the data needed to test business applications. The primary goals of any technology tool should be to improve how work is accomplished – Faster, Better, Cheaper. The tools you use should be flexible and work to support your current processes rather than force you to adapt to the needs of the tool. In developing Acceletest, Meridian kept these goals in mind and has developed an application that specifically addresses the testing needs of most organizations.

AcceleTest will:

• Reduce development cost: Right sizing of test data ensures data sets are sized appropriately relative to testing needs. Reduced data sizes facilitate the creation of smaller more efficient test environments and reduce the overall cost of these environments. Automated processing further reduces cost by eliminating expensive manual data recreation and refresh tasks.

• Reduce project risk: Production data access can be restricted, and resulting test data can be fully sanitized through the use of data transformation functionality. This process ensures data privacy controls can be maintained while still providing the high quality data needed for effective testing. This includes full support for HIPAA Protected Health Information (PHI) privacy requirements.

• Improve efficiency: Once rules are specified, data can be recreated at the push of a button. Specifications can be cloned and modified as needed for re-use on future projects.

• Improve quality: Data can be transformed to reflect specific test requirements such as date/time windows (e.g. month end processing) and specialized data sets appended to production samplings. Automated data comparison ensures differences in data sets can be quickly identified and properly analyzed.

ACCELETEST AT A GLANCE Sub-setting Profiling (RI) Masking Obfuscation Data Transformation Dataset Migration Integrated Extracts Data Comparison (Including Reports) Audit Support

SUPPORTED DATA TYPES IBM DB2 Oracle SQL Server Sybase PostgreSQL Cache Delimited ASCII Files

• Create Structured Test Data: Create structured test data sets from delimited ASCII files.

• Sub-setting: Extract a referentially intact data sub-set from a larger (typically production) dataset through a simple GUI interface with no SQL knowledge required.

• Metadata Detection: Automatically map input and output data fields and detect data relationships needed to preserve referential integrity (RI).

• Masking: Obscure selected portions of data elements rendering original data unreadable.

• Obfuscation: Encode, randomize, or otherwise alter selected data elements.

• Data Transformation: Options currently include the ability to generate numeric sequences and variances as well as sculpting of date fields. Generate purely random data or use existing data as your sample set.

• Dataset Migration: Instantiate the test datasets in a location different from the original dataset.

• Integrated Extracts: Data from multiple data sources can be extracted synchronously to ensure application and data relationships are preserved across all data instances.

• Data Comparison: Automate comparison of test datasets – such as expected vs. actually or pre vs. post migration datasets to improve test efficiency.

• Audit Support: Extract reports provide a history of the data accessed and the transformations applied to facilitate auditing per government regulatory requirements.

To learn more, visit us at www.meridiantechnologies.net or call (904) 332-7000