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Test Data Manager Overview

Test Data Manager is a web-based user interface that you use to perform data discovery, data subset, data masking, and data generation operations. Open a view in Test Data Manager based on the task you need to perform.
A compliance officer uses Test Data Manager Policies view to create policies, data masking rules, data generation rules, and data domains. The compliance officer assigns the data masking rules to data domains.
A developer uses the Projects view in Test Data Manager to define a project and import the data sources to the project. The developer runs profiles to discover primary keys, entities, and data domain assignments. The developer creates entities for data subset operations and assigns rules to columns for data masking and data generation operations. The developer creates plans, generates workflows, and runs the workflows.
The developer opens the Monitor view to check the status of jobs that perform data masking, data subset, data generation, and other operations.
An administrator uses the Administrator view to create connections, configure workflow options, perform server management, and restrict user access to TDM components. An administrator can also integrate a test tool with TDM and configure the test data repository and test data mart for the test data warehouse from the Administrator view.