About IBM Optim Data Privacy

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IBM Optim Data Privacy helps organizations to ensure that sensitive data is protected while de-identifying sensitive information across applications, databases and operating systems.

IBM Optim Data Privacy discovers hidden data relationships and enables users to create referentially intact, targeted, masked data sets to match specific business rules across diverse systems. Using IBM Optim Data Privacy results in improved risk mitigation and optimized performance.

IBM Optim Data Privacy uses advanced, context-aware masking powered by the IBM Optim Data Privacy API to protect sensitive data in test environments, ensuring regulatory compliance and mitigating data breach risks. It also features custom scripts for advanced masking, and API-driven masking for applications to de-identify data on the fly.

Designed with a cloud-native, containerized architecture, IBM Optim Data Privacy provides scalable deployment options and a modern user interface to simplify setup and operations. IBM Optim integrates with IBM’s broader data and AI ecosystem to support enterprise-wide data governance and modernization initiatives.

Comparing IBM Optim products

IBM Optim Data Privacy shares some capabilities with the following related IBM Optim products:
IBM Optim Test Data Management

IBM Optim Test Data Management streamlines the provisioning of secure, production-like test data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. IBM Optim Test Data Management is available with a Workgroup edition license, a Solution edition license, or an Enterprise edition license. For more information, see the IBM Optim Test Data Management documentation on IBM Docs

IBM Optim Archive

Use IBM Optim Archive to archive or retire historical data while optimizing storage costs, improving application performance, and minimizing risks associated with data retention and compliance. IBM Optim Archive is available with a Workgroup edition license, a Solution edition license, or an Enterprise edition license. For more information, see the IBM Optim Archive documentation on IBM Docs.

The following table shows which IBM Optim capabilities and features are included in each of the three IBM Optim products. Contact IBM Sales or IBM Support to discuss which product and license edition is right for your organization.

Table 1. Feature differences between IBM Optim products
Capability IBM Optim Archive 2.0.0 (Workgroup edition, Solution edition, or Enterprise edition) IBM Optim Test Data Management 2.0.0 (Workgroup edition, Solution edition, or Enterprise edition) IBM Optim Data Privacy 2.0.0 (Workgroup edition or Enterprise edition)
Connect to data sources
Solution edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Solution edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Create access definitions
Solution edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Solution edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Manage jobs
Solution edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Solution edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Define data subsets
Solution edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Solution edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Mask data
Solution edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Solution edition: No
Enterprise edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Export data
Solution edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Solution edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Archive data
Solution edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Solution edition: No
Enterprise edition: No
Enterprise edition: No
Restore archives to a database
Solution edition: No
Enterprise edition: Yes
Solution edition: No
Enterprise edition: No
Enterprise edition: No
View archives
Solution edition: No
Enterprise edition: Yes
Solution edition: No
Enterprise edition: No
Enterprise edition: No
Define IBM Optim relationships
Solution edition: No
Enterprise edition: Yes
Solution edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: No

IBM Optim software usage metrics

The following table details the metrics that IBM uses to track the usage of IBM Optim product software, according to the license agreements. IBM Optim uses two metrics by which the software can be licensed, depending on the product and edition:
  • Processor value units (PVU): A PVU is a unit of measurement used by IBM to determine licensing costs for software, based on the computing power of the processor cores it runs on rather than just the number of servers.
  • Terabytes (TB): A Terabyte is 2 to the 40th power bytes. Licensees must obtain an entitlement for each terabyte available to IBM Optim software.
Table 2. Comparing IBM Optim software license metrics
IBM Optim product and edition Processor value units (PVU) Terabytes (TB)
IBM Optim Archive Enterprise edition license Yes Yes
IBM Optim Archive Solution edition license Yes No
IBM Optim Data Privacy Enterprise edition license Yes Yes
IBM Optim Data Privacy Solution edition license Yes No
IBM Optim Data Privacy Enterprise edition license Yes Yes

For more information about tracking software usage metrics, see Enabling SLM tags and the IBM License Metric Tool documentation on IBM Docs.