IBM InfoSphere®, Optim™, Data Privacy offers extensive capabilities to mask sensitive data in non-production environments such as development, testing, QA, or training. This single offering offers a variety transformation techniques that can replace sensitive information with fully functional, functionally masked data. Substrings, arithmetic, sequential or random number generation, date ageing, and concatenation are all examples of masking techniques. The context-aware masking capabilities allow data to be retained in a similar format as the original. Apply a range of masking techniques on-demand to transform personally-identifying information and confidential corporate data in applications, databases and reports. Data masking tools can be used to prevent misuse of information. They allow you to mask, obfuscate, and privatize personal information that is distributed across non-production environments.