| | December 202019CIOReviewFor software testing to be effective, organizations need to effectively tackle the environment and data problem. We are well-positioned to rise to these requirements with our end-to-end fully integrated solutioncoordinating test environments and test data operations, including releases. It also includes automating difficult tasks such as test environment shakedown and provisioning, and data securitization. This ultimately provides real-time visibility of environments, data, and their underlying operations across the software development life cycle. "For software testing to be effective, organizations need to effectively tackle the environment and data problem. We are well-positioned to rise to these requirements with our end-to-end fully integrated solution," asserts Crawford. According to Crawford, although most organizations invest heavily in their configuration management database (CMDB), it's often too production and component centric and captures information at the hardware level, which is not particularly useful for developers and testers. Enov8, on the other hand, adopts a slightly different approach to modeling test environments from the perspective of the software development life cycle. It allows Enov8's clients to better understand where a resource or system fits in the life cycle and how it relates to other systems. This enables them to create IT and business solutions on the surface and model the underlying deployment tiers, including applications, data, and infrastructure. Crawford quips, "We like to describe the Enov8 platform as CMDB on steroids. It's very much about taking a traditional CMDB and extending its capabilities so that clients can see a universe of different perspectives which the IT and software development community understand."Once this base model of understanding is in place, Enov8 then associates these systems or resources with other environments and system information, such as events, operations, run sheets, and automations. Enov8's platform can bring it all together to provide a more holistic and useful view rather than a traditional CMDB view. The company has built its platform to be very much modular, which provides a set of guard rails for different types of test environments and test data activities, that can be used together or in isolation. The platform's functionality is not limited to test environments modeling; it also offers test environment booking, plotting in coordination, calendaring, operations such as run sheets, and standard operating procedures, alongside deployment and management capabilities. Besides, with a focus on data compliance and test data management, Enov8's platform offers automated "PMV" (Profiling, Masking, and Validation), data mining, and a DataOps (DevOps) library for central management and orchestration of client's data operations. It offers numerous reports that provide overarching visibility into information regarding current use and future availability of system instances, events, bookings, support or service requests, and so on. In essence, the different modules of the platform can be used individually or combined, whereby they come together to form a certified universal platform of insights. Enov8 follows a philosophy of "skills over numbers" and employs industry veterans and technology experts to deliver its solutions. By working as small localized teams, Enov8 is able to simplify collaboration, communication, and team bonding. "If you were to enter the Enov8 office for the first time, you would see a tight group of friends, not a hierarchy, wherein everyone has got everyone's back. By following this methodology of doing more with less, we can deliver solutions to our clients very quickly and in an enjoyable manner," Crawford notes.Steering ahead, Enov8 aims to continue enhancing its existing product portfolio with a focus on immutable objects such as containers and unstructured data. The company also plans on employing machine learning to better automate and simplify the user experience. Moreover, Enov8 has recently released version 1.0 of its new product geared toward data loss prevention. This dovetails with Enov8's data management product and helps organizations understand their security issues or potential data exposures in the unstructured data space. Enov8 is looking forward to rolling out this product globally in the next few months.
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