IT enterprises spend 35% of their time & effort in resolving issues related to managing test data, along with high test environment Capital Expenditure & support costs due to data size as much as the production. While there is a lack of defined consistent & repeatable process to provide test data that is ’fit for purpose’ and offers increased test coverage, enterprises that use live data for testing expose themselves to compliance, regulatory, & customer confidence risks:

• 74% of DBA’s can view all data, increasing the risk of a breach
• 55% say data has been compromised or stolen by a malicious insider such as a
  privileged user

The key industry drivers of Test data management, thus are:

• Managing test data requests
• Data privacy, threats, and breaches
• Cost of data storage
• Data standardization and synchronization
• Regulations and compliance