
Accelerating Digital Transformation
with DevSecOps
A factory model approach to DevSecOps delivers rapid innovation & transformation.
Relentlessly changing technology and market dynamics have created a high-velocity, always-on environment for financial firms.
AI, automation, and analytics solutions help you improve operating cash flows, reduce working capital, and build robust and resilient operations.
Build efficient business operations and discover the opportunities of a connected environment
Go beyond aesthetics to create simple, superior, and intuitive experiences that transform the way you do business.
Transform and manage your compute storage network, operating system, database, and application environment with enhanced security, powered by AIOps intelligence.
Modernize your business to be cloud-first for greater efficiency, effectiveness, speed, and scale
Modernize your application infrastructure with APIs and Microservices
Get a lightning-fast response to the evolving business landscape to scale operations, accelerate top-line growth, and retain competitive advantage
Automate what is best suited to your goals to drives frictionless digital customer engagements, data-driven insights, and business growth
Modernize development to drive performance and high quality at speed.
Incubate maximum productivity and innovation in cross-functional teams
Effortlessly deliver simple, seamless, and secure experiences to cement your competitive edge.
Modernize core systems, transform processes and services, and get market- leader advantage.
Orchestrate seamless, digital investment services experiences toward health and wealth portfolio management.
Relentlessly changing technology and market dynamics have created a high-velocity, always-on environment for financial firms.
AI, automation, and analytics solutions help you improve operating cash flows, reduce working capital, and build robust and resilient operations.
Build efficient business operations and discover the opportunities of a connected environment
Go beyond aesthetics to create simple, superior, and intuitive experiences that transform the way you do business.
Transform and manage your compute storage network, operating system, database, and application environment with enhanced security, powered by AIOps intelligence.
Modernize your business to be cloud-first for greater efficiency, effectiveness, speed, and scale
Modernize your application infrastructure with APIs and Microservices
Get a lightning-fast response to the evolving business landscape to scale operations, accelerate top-line growth, and retain competitive advantage
Automate what is best suited to your goals to drives frictionless digital customer engagements, data-driven insights, and business growth
Modernize development to drive performance and high quality at speed.
Incubate maximum productivity and innovation in cross-functional teams
Effortlessly deliver simple, seamless, and secure experiences to cement your competitive edge.
Modernize core systems, transform processes and services, and get market- leader advantage.
Orchestrate seamless, digital investment services experiences toward health and wealth portfolio management.
Home / Case Study / Accelerate Testing & Release Cycles with Centralized TDM
By deploying a TDM solution, SLK software reduced test data provisioning time from 4 days to just 6 hours.
A leading insurer, specializing in property and casualty, serving a mix of retail and commercial customers
Legacy test data management (TDM) procedures and a lack of continuous optimization meant that data provisioning took four to five days and ran a high risk of breaching of compliance.
By establishing an end-to-end TDM process and framework, SLK Software helped them reduce test data provisioning time by nearly 80%.
The scale and complexity of enterprise technology systems is skyrocketing. To ensure that applications can be released quickly and flawlessly, today’s developers rely on high volumes of test data. Without this data, enterprises risk releasing buggy software that can disrupt mission-critical processes and create a cascade of failures across a business unit.
For the insurance firm, a lack of an end-to-end TDM framework was impacting their ability to release and update new application features. Legacy testing procedures, outdated provisioning protocols, and an over dependance on manual processes caused significant delays in data provisioning, stretching project teams thin with data acquisition and delivery tasks. Even when the data was able to be delivered quickly, inadequate masking in non-production environments created a high risk of compliance breaches.
To fix their data provisioning operations, the company wanted a solution provider who specialized in establishing end-to-end TDM frameworks. And since they’d shifted to an agile delivery model with accelerated dev cycles and testing requirements, they needed a quick turnaround in their TDM implementation. To alleviate the rising workloads on project teams, the firm was also looking to automate test data provisioning, while eliminating the risk of data breaches and complying with data security and privacy regulations.
To start with, we established a four-stage delivery strategy. The first step involved evaluating the client’s use cases and application landscape to better understand their data challenges and princesses. Based on this, we then developed a POC from the selected tools, and prepared the infrastructure, databases, and networks necessary to operationalize the TDM solution across application clusters. The next step involved abstracting and virtualizing the data sources to compress their storage requirements. At the same time, we also refined legacy PII parameters, and released a masked version of their virtualized golden copy to the pre-production environment.
To help the development and IQE teams autonomously control the data refresh cycles within their production environments, we created a self-service portal and an accelerated protocol for data refresh frequency and clean up. Finally, we demoed and deployed TDM applications on multiple clusters using a phased approach, and kickstarted the synthetic test data fabrication process.
Reduction in test
data provisioning time
Storage footprint reduction
Time taken to
reset test data sets
A centralized TDM system helped them data ingestion time to 90 minutes, data profiling to five minutes, data masking to four hours, and data provisioning across channels to 10 minutes. From start to finish, a total data refresh can be executed by the firm in only 6 hours, as opposed to 4-5 days. Overall, the time for test data provisioning was reduced by almost 80%.
A centralized TDM system, and automated data provisioning translated to faster, more accurate testing, ratcheting up software release cycles. At the same time, PII obfuscation at scale meant that data security standards were consistently met, leaving the insurance firm confident in their ability to sidestep expensive data breaches.
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