Data Integrity Sheet2
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Tricentis Data Integrity The data behind every business is the product of continuous ingestions from disparate data sources, followed by countless integrations, transformations, and migrations. A slight discrepancy at any step typically remains unnoticed until it impacts the business. At that point, it’s extremely difficult to diagnose and fix. Tricentis Data Integrity provides a powerful way to eliminate data integrity issues before they do any damage. Our end-to-end automation covers everything from the integrity of the data fed into your system, to the accuracy of integrations, transformations, and migrations, to the verification of report logic and presentation. Leading organizations use our solution for: Reducing the time and cost required to Unifying data quality efforts scattered across ensure data quality siloed tools Validating data migrations to Snowflake, Monitoring data for fraud and regulatory S/4HANA + other platforms compliance issues Scaling data verification efforts to cover Ensuring that application updates don’t massive amounts of data negatively impact data Business ETL Layers BI Layers Data Extract Transform Load Consolidation Reporting Aggregation Reports Stage 0 Core DWH Cubes Data Lake Big Data Tricentis Data Integrity SAP Tableau Snowflake Qlik Salesforce PowerBI, etc MSSql Postgres Excel Mongo, etc © 2020 Tricentis GmbH. All Rights Reserved END-TO-END TESTING PRE-SCREENING TESTING End-to-end testing can be performed using The Pre-Screening wizard facilitates the pre-screening tests on files and or early detection of data errors (missing databases; completeness, integrity, and values, duplicates, data formats etc.). Use it reconciliation tests on the inner DWH to ensure that the data loaded into the layers; and UI tests on the reporting layer. staging tables is correctly structured and Databases, flat files, HDFS as well as web formatted. You can also verify that the field UIs, APIs/services, etc. are all supported, level data meets your requirements (e.g., allowing a true end-to-end testing allowed values or patterns). approach across all layers of the data warehouse environment. RECONCILIATION TESTS VITAL CHECKS Reconciliation testing performs complete Vital Checks expose data acquisition errors. source-to-target comparison—including You can automatically generate vital checks file-to-database and database-to-file compar- for both data quality and data processing. isons. These reconciliation tests can perform Tests for metadata, completeness, unique- algorithmic or complete row-by-row compar- ness, and referential integrity can be creat- isons of two data sets from two disparate ed out-of-the-box. The generated test cases systems. These tests can be associated with cover table-level checks as well as field-lev- your transformation requirements—provid- el checks for the various BI/DWH layers. ing instant insight into which transformation requirements have been tested and whether those tests succeeded or failed. PROFILING TESTS BI REPORT TESTING Profiling tests validate data for logical Tricentis Tosca’s Model-based Test consistency and correctness from a Automation automates testing of BI business perspective. For example, you can reports by providing checks for automatically check that insurance fully-laid-out reports or analyzing the contracts can be canceled only if all underlying data that is fed into the reports outstanding invoices have been paid. (e.g., Cognos, Tableau, QlikView, etc.). Profiling functionality can also be used to Tricentis customers who have used monitor how many data values of a certain Model-based Test Automation to automate type exist at any given point, alert you to their BI report testing have achieved “out of range” values, and use results to automation rates of up to 90+%. create a trend profile over time. © 2020 Tricentis GmbH. All Rights Reserved.