Business Value

Below is a list of the business related benefits from using Data Caterer which may be applicable for your use case.

Problem	Data Caterer Solution	Resources	Effects
Reliable test data creation	- Profile existing data - Create scenarios - Generate data	Software Engineers, QA, Testers	Cost reduction in labor, more time spent on development, more bugs caught before production
Faster development cycles	- Generate data in local, test, UAT, pre-prod - Run different scenarios	Software Engineers, QA, Testers	More defects caught in lower environments, features pushed to production faster, common framework used across all environments
Data compliance	- Profiling existing data - Generate based on metadata - No complex masking - No production data used in lower environments	Audit and compliance	No chance for production data breaches
Storage costs	- Delete generated data - Test specific scenarios	Infrastructure	Lower data storage costs, less time spent on data management and clean up
Schema evolution	- Create metadata from data sources - Generate data based off fresh metadata	Software Engineers, QA, Testers	Less time spent altering tests due to schema changes, ease of use between environments and application versions