List of the Top 3 Test Data Management Tools for IRI Fast Extract (FACT) in 2025

IRI RowGen creates billions of safe and intelligent rows of test data tailored for various targets such as databases, flat files, and formatted reports by leveraging metadata instead of actual data. This powerful tool synthesizes and fills databases with accurate relational test data that mirrors the characteristics of your production data. By utilizing existing metadata or generating it dynamically, RowGen can either randomly create structurally and referentially accurate test data or select it from real datasets. Moreover, it offers the flexibility to customize data formats, volumes, ranges, distributions, and additional properties either on the fly or through reusable rules, which aids in achieving key objectives like application testing and subsetting. Powered by the IRI CoSort engine, RowGen ensures the fastest generation, transformation, and bulk loading of large test datasets available in the market. Developed by experts in data modeling, integration, and processing, RowGen is designed to efficiently produce compliant test sets in both production-ready and customized formats. With RowGen, you can easily generate and provision synthetic test data that is safe and intelligent for various purposes, including DevOps, database validations, data visualizations, and data warehousing prototypes, all without needing access to production data. This capability not only enhances testing efficiency but also significantly reduces the risks associated with using sensitive production data.

IRI FieldShield® offers an effective and cost-efficient solution for the discovery and de-identification of sensitive data, such as PII, PHI, and PAN, across both structured and semi-structured data sources. With its user-friendly interface built on an Eclipse-based design platform, FieldShield allows users to perform classification, profiling, scanning, and static masking of data at rest. Additionally, the FieldShield SDK or a proxy-based application can be utilized for dynamic data masking, ensuring the security of data in motion. Typically, the process for masking relational databases and various flat file formats, including CSV, Excel, LDIF, and COBOL, involves a centralized classification system that enables global searches and automated masking techniques. This is achieved through methods like encryption, pseudonymization, and redaction, all designed to maintain realism and referential integrity in both production and testing environments. FieldShield can be employed to create sanitized test data, mitigate the impact of data breaches, or ensure compliance with regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, PDPA, and PCI-DSS, among others. Users can perform audits through both machine-readable and human-readable search reports, job logs, and re-identification risk assessments. Furthermore, it offers the flexibility to mask data during the mapping process, and its capabilities can also be integrated into various IRI Voracity ETL functions, including federation, migration, replication, subsetting, and analytical operations. For database clones, FieldShield can be executed in conjunction with platforms like Windocks, Actifio, or Commvault, and it can even be triggered from CI/CD pipelines and applications, ensuring versatility in data management practices.

The IRI Data Manager suite, developed by IRI, The CoSort Company, equips users with comprehensive tools designed to enhance the efficiency of data manipulation and transfer. IRI CoSort is adept at managing extensive data processing activities, including data warehouse ETL and business intelligence analytics, while also facilitating database loads, sort/merge utility migrations, and other substantial data processing operations. For swiftly unloading vast databases for data warehouse ETL, reorganization, and archival purposes, IRI Fast Extract (FACT) stands out as an indispensable tool. With IRI NextForm, users can accelerate file and table migrations, while also benefiting from features like data replication, reformatting, and federation. IRI RowGen is capable of producing test data that is both referentially and structurally accurate across files, tables, and reports, and it also offers capabilities for database subsetting and masking, tailored for test environments. Each of these products can be acquired separately for perpetual use and operates within a shared Eclipse job design integrated development environment, with additional support available through IRI Voracity subscriptions. Together, these tools streamline complex data workflows, making them essential for organizations seeking to optimize their data management processes.