Fixing the Data Gap in DevOps
London, UK, November 25th, 2019 – Validata Group announces the latest enhancements to its Validata Sense.ai platform to support DataOps. The new capabilities augment clients to achieve true CI/CD through quality data and environments provisioning. This means getting the right data to the right environment and the right people on-demand in a secure and compliant manner.Traditionally 60% of IT and DevOps projects fail as data is a key element that organizations fail to address. Testers and Developers spend almost 50% of their time looking for data and almost 70% of them use production data for testing.
There are cases where development teams run many parallel projects with more than 3 to 4 environments each. Each of these environments will require multiple data refreshes during the project lifecycle, which means that teams will spend significant time and effort provisioning data which are consistent across environments.
Validata Sense.ai has been enhanced to address data constraints in DevOps. It ensures that data is easy to manage, easy to access and fast to provision to the right teams, but also in a way that business testers can read. In doing so, QA and DevOps teams have access to quality data at the time they need them, ensuring that applications are developed with the right production data, and are then being tested using the right data sets.
It enables environments provisioning faster, saving a significant amount of time, increasing teams’ productivity and driving efficiencies.
Customers can take advantage of an enriched user experience and improved data masking capabilities. Masking of data can be performed by business users without requiring deep technical knowledge or developer resources, allowing for realistic data without the sensitive content.
The platform intelligently scans the data across any data source, and is able to identify the sensitive values, such as names, addresses, etc, and by leveraging masking algorithms it delivers data in accordance with internal standards and privacy regulations.
Among its features, it can automatically generate richer sets of synthetic or production test data or virtual copies of data, eliminating the data wait and, increasing team productivity and accelerating application delivery.
Vaios Vaitsis, Founder and CEO at Validata Group, mentioned, “While organisations need to adapt to changes and new methodologies, data has become a bottleneck that slows them down. Validata Sense.ai is uniquely positioned to help them modernize the way they provision and manage data, accelerate project delivery and achieve a faster return of investment.”