Our client's journey

The challenge: Securing QA to be GDPR compliant and reducing footprint

Our client is a renowned service provider operating around the world, with over 50,000 employees. They faced three main challenges:

• Securing their QA environments to achieve GDPR compliance
• Masking the SRM and ECC systems consistently so that test data is accurate
• Reducing the data footprint in the QA environment, making it more cost-effective to migrate to the Cloud in the future

The solution: Data Sync Manager™ suite to mask, refresh and reduce size

Using EPI-USE Labs’ Data Secure™, this global service provider can now mask sensitive data and protect identifiable information.

They implemented Data Secure for the cross-masking of ECC and SRM systems and are able to consistently mask the data between the two environments. A Business Partner in the SRM system gets the same value as the corresponding Vendor in the ERP system.

EPI-USE Labs worked closely with our client to identify the best solution to define and build customised policies to mask identifiable data – customers, vendors, business partners, employees – in non-production environments.

We also used System Builder™ and Client Sync™ (part of the Data Sync Manager suite) to refresh the QA environment in ERP and SRM. System Builder was used to create a new system shell, with a time-slice of only 18 months copied across, significantly reducing the size of the system. EPI-USE Labs carried out the refresh over a weekend to avoid downtime on the production environment.