Goals Become an agile development organization to react quicker to member needs and market changes

Support DevOps: implementation and operationalization of Test Data Management as a component to achieve Continuous Integration and Continuous Development

Create a Center of Excellence and implement best practices for Software Quality Testing Processes and Standards

Reduce six-month product development time by provisioning data faster and more safely for testing teams onshore and offshore

Solution Informatica Test Data Management makes production data instantly available for testing

Informatica Test Data Generation creates synthetic data that supports software testing with production-like data, without risking the exposure of real Personal Identifiable information (PII) Data

Informatica PowerCenter Data Validation Option enables continuous monitoring of the production test environment, helping to ensure the protection of confidential member data

Educate organization to embrace long-term, continuous improvement of products and services

Results Eliminates average two- to three-week wait for test data, helping to accelerate product test cycles

Reduces product testing time by 50%, supporting a four-week development cycle

Decreases product development cycles by up to 91% to bring financial solutions to market faster

Nonprofit Financial Services Organization

Banking on Change: Bringing Products and Services to Members Faster with Rapid Data Testing

The ability to customize products and services for our members helps instill loyalty. With Informatica, that capability is stronger than ever, as is our ability to bring solutions to market faster. The result is higher levels of trust among our members, which fuels our success as an organization.”

IT ManagerNonprofit Financial Services Organization

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For more than 100 years members have relied on this not-for-profit organization for everything from

life insurance and annuities to mutual funds and disability insurance. Today, these services, plus

assistance in money management, brokerage, and retirement planning, are enriching the lives of its 2.3 million

members nationwide.

They pride themselves on giving their members targeted, high-quality products and services to help them

at different stages of life. To continually refine and expand its offerings, and bring them to market faster, the

organization embraces new technologies. Their 300-strong development team plays a central role in this effort,

devising concepts for products and services, testing them, and releasing them to market.

An agile development strategy for a growing portfolioHistorically, it took up to six months for developers from IT and business teams to launch new products or

services, or even modify the smallest of applications, because of the complexity of obtaining the right data

set for user acceptance testing, and a two- to three-week wait for the data. Given increasing demand among

members for a more dynamic, customized portfolio of services, senior leadership saw an opportunity to

implement an organization-wide agile development process to bring products and services to market faster.

“We needed to move more quickly and expedite the development of features, products, and services that

better meet our members’ expectations,” says the IT Manager of the Nonprofit Financial Services Organization.

“As a first step, we looked at the provision of data for testing, specifically in areas such as availability, quality,

and security. The speed at which we harness data for testing determines the speed at which we get a product

to market.”

The organization considered several options to help meet these objectives and chose Informatica over

alternative solutions because of the company’s collaborative approach to the project. “Informatica is a

strategic partner, walking side by side with us along our journey,” says the IT Manager. “The team is responsive

and highly engaged in our work, allowing any issues to be quickly and effectively resolved.”

Business Requirements:

• Instill trust from members by delivering timely and relevant product and service offerings

• Create a dynamic, tailored portfolio of products and services that reflect changing member needs

• Achieve a continuous evolution of products and services through agile development

About the CompanyThe Nonprofit Financial Services Organization has headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Appleton, Wisconsin. They are a member-owned fraternal benefit society that serves 2.3 million members.

It previously took two to three weeks

for developers to obtain test data. With

Informatica Test Data Management they

can now access that data instantly. As

a result, they now work in a two- to four-

week, rather than a four- to six-month,

development cycle and we’re bringing

solutions to market faster.”

IT ManagerNonprofit Financial Services Organization

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Automated data provisioning leads to accelerated testingAn existing Informatica PowerCenter user, they deployed Informatica Test Data Management (TDM) to

automate the data provisioning process and accelerate the testing process. The solution pulls customer and

related product data into a test data generator at regular intervals, creating a golden record, and stores it in a

test data warehouse. Because the data includes confidential membership information, it is masked as read-

only to help ensure security and privacy.

“Security and privacy are paramount, and our success is built on a hundred years of trust from our members,”

they explained. “Protecting personal data is our top priority, and we do that through data masking and

continuous monitoring facilitated by the Informatica PowerCenter Data Validation Option.”

The Data Validation Option allows them to test data management team to monitor the production

test environment for the presence of any unmasked data and take instant, corrective action if necessary, to

protect data.

Cutting product testing time in halfAdditionally, Informatica Test Data Generation allows developers to pull data on-demand, rather than wait

for two or three weeks as they did previously. Faster access to test data, together with the integrity of the

golden data, helps reduce overall product testing time by 50%, in alignment with the organization’s agile

development goal.

“It previously took two to three weeks for developers to obtain test data. With Informatica Test Data

Management they can now access that data instantly,” notes the IT Manager. “This means our developers

spend less time preparing test data sets and provisioning, and more time testing. As a result, they now work

in a two- to four-week, rather than a four- to six-month, development cycle and we’re bringing solutions to

market faster.”

Meanwhile, more member information is used in the development process thanks to the highly secure, data

masking capability. The result is new features, products, and services that are better tailored to the needs

and demands of their members.

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Inside The Solution:

• Informatica Test Data Management

• Informatica Test Data Generation

• Informatica PowerCenter Data Validation Option

“The ability to customize products and services for our members helps instill loyalty,” says the IT Manager.

“With Informatica, that capability is stronger than ever, as is our ability to bring solutions to market faster.

The result is higher levels of trust among our members, which fuels our success as an organization.”

Continual focus on developmentIn the future, the team plans to mine intelligence from the test data system that will be channeled back into

the development process, which will enable even sharper, speedier product development.

“Partnering with Informatica helps us look ahead,” says the IT Manager. “The team isn’t just focused on the

current process; they’re educating us on how we can evolve our offerings and align to trends. This helps my

team educate our stakeholders and influence the products and services to come.”