Eynsham, Oxfordshire -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/02/2010 -- Grid-Tools Managing Director, Huw Price, commented on how he was looking forward to the event. “We are pleased to announce our involvement in the 2010 IDUG EMEA event. Grid-Tools has been interested in exploring the DB2 user world more extensively, particularly for mainframe users. Our complete test data management solutions and tools support DB2 z/os and we want the DB2 user group to be aware of their options. It is possible to provision high quality, business accurate test data to test against these systems.”

Huw is scheduled to speak at the IDUG event as a solutions vendor. His presentation “Test Data Management for DB2 databases: How to be confident your test and development data is secure and of high quality” will take place on Tuesday, November 9th at 10:15-11:15am.

About IDUG EMEA
IDUG EMEA 2010 is the premier training and networking event dedicated exclusively to IBM’s industry-leading DB2 product family. The IDUG Experience is a jam-packed event featuring DB2 thought-leaders and developers from around the globe. Providing you technical sessions and in-depth seminars, get the best in DB2 education and training directly from the experts. Visit www.IDUG.org/EMEA for up-to-date information including registration, schedule and more.

About Grid-Tools Limited
Visionary, innovative and academic in their approach, Grid-Tools has developed test data management strategies for some of the largest and most important organizations internationally. Their experienced personnel have been writing and developing solutions for large companies in both the private and public sectors for nearly 30 years. Specializing in data creation, data masking and test data management solutions and tools, Grid-Tools has re-defined how organizations go about provisioning secure, high quality data for testing and development.

The Grid-Tools Datamaker™ suite includes a wide range of tools and solutions for complete test data management. Their signature solution, Datamaker™, creates and publishes test data with the referential and business integrity of production environments for testing and development. Datamaker™ also offers three methods for managing and generating data in testing and development inclusive of database subsetting, data masking and synthetic data generation. The ability to use all three techniques alone or in combination offers the flexibility needed for successful test data management strategies.

The Grid-Tools methodology consists of offering a data-centric approach to test data management. Their focus is to ensure the quality of the data you are using is of the right quality for successful testing and development.

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