TrustRadius Insights for Perforce Delphix are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Valuable for identifying sensitive data: Several users have found Delphix to be a valuable tool for identifying sensitive data fields and ensuring regulatory compliance. They appreciate how it empowers them to easily manage and control their data, allowing them to confidently meet compliance requirements.
Versatile data management capabilities: Many reviewers highlight the versatility of Delphix's data management capabilities. It enables them to move and manage data from any premises, cloud, or environment with ease. This flexibility is highly valued as it allows users to adapt their workflows and processes according to their specific needs.
Excellent support and documentation: Delphix receives praise for its excellent online documentation and a supportive community that provides great support. Users appreciate the knowledgeable staff at Delphix who take a genuine interest in helping customers succeed. The support organization is considered among the best, providing timely assistance and promptly resolving issues.
To do all the Test refreshes for the Application developers to test the data in prod. Delphix helps in transforming the data space in virtualization by compressing the data and creating virtual databases so that they can be accessed anywhere and refreshing the data in MDM systems is a big advantage of this tool. Data Masking is also another important option that organizations can leverage.
Pros
Data Virtualization
Data refresh
Data masking
Functionality and Performance
Strong Customer Focus
Cons
UI improvement
More data sources
Encryption options
Data Masking
Handling sensitive information
Likelihood to Recommend
When creating non-production settings, Delphix is often utilised. Production, development, and QA of reports are now feasible with virtualized databases, which increases productivity and reduces deployment bottleneck. The data Masking feature is used to conceal sensitive data fields so, that non-authorized users cannot access or misuse the real-time customer data.
It was difficult for the client to compile daily reports since the data included a large number of customers and government information, placing the company in danger of breaking data privacy rules. Therefore, we used Delphix, a data misrepresentation tool that lets the customer comply with GDPR, CCPA, and other data governance/compliance rules while also saving both time and money in the process.
Pros
Identification of sensitive data fields.
Collaboration with support team.
Cross-platform data transmission.
Cons
Trial version is not available.
Price is high but felt worthy after usage.
Likelihood to Recommend
REST API calls are available for all Delphix activities. Delphix makes it simple to move data between production to other test or QA environments. Through the replacement with a dummy, yet realistic data of the customer or patient data, you reduce the danger of data breaches for any and all copies of data you produce.
Delphix enables us to support improve development processes and reducing development cycles by providing self-service solutions. We have been using Delphix as an Endpoint Backup Solution to enhance development velocity by eliminating data friction by speeding up database refresh times from days to minutes, lowering storage costs while creating a secure data set. It has enhanced the efficiencies of my entire team.
Pros
Delphix has been giving me an edge by allowing me to push test data management capabilities to the developer/tester empowering them to be their own data operator to bookmark, rewind, and refresh data as needed.
My data stays protected with security policies and regulatory compliance.
Delphix is also a great tool as it can move and manage data from any premises, cloud, or environment.
Cons
Delphix is a hefty solution for virtualization, but it is not strong enough for the creation of data, so we have to use another platform when it comes to creating new data.
Moreover, Delphix web pages do not support AD security groups which eventually results in hassle if you have a large number of users to create and maintain passwords.
Likelihood to Recommend
Delphix is more suited for non-production environment management that integrates many technologies in a single data container with all privacy regulations regarding cloud migrations so you can replicate data across them. Delphix is more appropriate for testing teams who want to mitigate the wait time for receiving data from production. Delphix can lessen the time prod refreshes take from days to minutes.
When I first met Delphix 5 years ago, I was struggling with storage consumption for non-productive environments so I was looking for a data virtualization product. I make POCs and document all the use cases of the product across the organization with the cost reduction of new environments, people productivity, and costs improvements. Delphix addresses all my problems and multiple technical problems also.
Pros
Storage consumption reduction.
Data environments self service for consumers.
Excellent documentation online.
Great community for support you.
Great company with great people working on it.
Cons
No cons
Likelihood to Recommend
Delphix is well suited for non-production environment management, integrating multiple technologies in one data pod or data container, data masking to be compliance with all privacy regulations regarding data, data centers or cloud migrations as you can replicate data across them, and backups and recovery, as it has a snapshot policy of the virtual DBS and source DBS.
We use Delphix to increase development velocity by removing data friction by speeding up database refresh times from days to minutes, lowering storage cost, while creating a secure data set. Delphix is easy to use in tools like Jenkins to setup automated regression testing. Delphix allows you to push test data management capabilities to the developer/tester empowering them to be their own data operator to bookmark, rewind, refresh data as needed.
Pros
Fast refresh of production data to non-production environments.
Easy to automate tasks in Delphix (Bookmark, Rewind, Refresh, etc.) and build pipelines in tools like Jenkins. Enables CI/CD push button build of new virtual database and also the ability to automate regression testing scenarios as well as provide a simple way to expose self-service to developers & testers.
The staff at Delphix are knowledgeable and take a genuine interest in helping their customers succeed. The support organization is among the best I've seen.
Delphix is good at notifying customers of bugs & features striking a good balance on sending the right amount and type of communication.
Delphix is always improving the product and fixing any bugs quickly and transparently.
Delphix Data Masking product works as described and allows for multiple streams of masking concurrently to complete masking faster.
Cons
User/PWD management in the Delphix Self-Service web page does not support LDAP nor AD security groups. This creates a hassle if you have a large number of self-service users to create and maintain passwords for. The fix for this is supposed to be the new Central Management tool. We just ended up creating jobs in Jenkins (which supports groups) using the python-examples scripts from the Delphix Github.
Reporting on storage and performing capacity planning is not easy when running many (20+) virtual databases. The latest release and new Central Management tool are both supposed to storage reporting much better.
Delphix Data Masking tool could handle masking of complex flat files better. We ended up creating a tagger and un-tagger to add/remove metadata to enable Delphix masking to be able to mask our complex flat file. Would have been nice if that capability was already built into the masking tool.
Likelihood to Recommend
Delphix is well suited for development and/or testing teams who want to eliminate the wait time for receiving data from production (i.e. non-prod refreshes). Delphix can reduce the time prod refreshes take from days to minutes. Delphix virtualization is also strong for providing the ability to set a bookmark, make data changes/compare results, and rewind to the bookmark enabling automated regression testing. The Delphix Data Masking product works as advertised and is a customizable.
From an licensing perspective Delphix has a 3TB minimum so its better suited to enterprise sized databases, the ROI may go down if the db size is small, number of dev/test dbs is small, and/or number of developers and testers is small. If you don't refresh from Prod frequently your storage usage will climb which offsets some of the hard dollar cost benefit.
VU
Verified User
Director in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
We are using Delphix in our division of the company. We are using Delphix to do quick restores from the production database so that we can get the latest data to pre-prod as fast as possible. We are also using the bookmark feature so we can test new database code, with a quick way to go back to the starting point in case the latest code rouge in the database.
Pros
Bookmarking
Quick Restore from production
Cons
Disk performance can be improved
Error handling can be better
Likelihood to Recommend
If you have multiple pre-prod databases that you have to keep up to date with the latest production data, Delphix would be a good fit for that. It will help speed up the process.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
