🔍 Feature Suggestion: Intelligent Anonymization in EPM Board 🔍

Hello everyone,

I’d like to propose an enhancement to EPM Board that could bring significant value to our user community: the integration of a feature enabling easy anonymization of database dimensions and data.

This feature would allow users to easily mask sensitive information, thus streamlining the creation of demonstration databases for pre-sales. With just a few clicks, it would be possible to prepare demo or test environments without compromising the confidentiality of actual data. This could save considerable time for pre-sales teams by making demo preparation faster and more secure.

Additionally, with the advancements in artificial intelligence that the team is currently developing, it could be worthwhile to explore the possibility of using AI to generate realistic, anonymized substitution data.

I would be very interested to hear your thoughts on this suggestion and your perspectives on the potential value of such a feature for our community.

Thank you, and looking forward to your feedback !

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  • Sergi Fernández
    Sergi Fernández Active Partner, Community Captain
    100 Up Votes 10 Comments Second Anniversary Year 2 Community Captain

    Great idea @Mateo DE LOS RIOS! An anonymization feature would be a huge time-saver for creating safe, realistic demo environments. Fully support this!

  • Helmut Heimann
    Helmut Heimann Employee, Community Captain
    50 Answers 500 Comments 250 Likes Fourth Anniversary

    Agreed—you've got my vote, @Mateo DE LOS RIOS !

  • Fethi ZERARA
    Fethi ZERARA Active Partner, Community Captain
    Fourth Anniversary 100 Comments 5 Answers 25 Likes

    Very good idea đź‘Ť

  • Not only that but also automatically decreasing volumes for testing or debugging purposes.

    An anonymised database with several 1M+ member entities cannot be studied on the local machine. But if we reduce its volume to 1k+, yes.

  • Nicolas CHIGROS
    Nicolas CHIGROS Active Partner
    Fourth Anniversary 250 Up Votes 25 Likes 10 Comments

    I have an onpremise customer with sensitive data in the database and they are reluctant to send the database to Board support when asked. A tool like that may help in that use case too.

  • AmirAbed
    AmirAbed Active Partner
    Second Anniversary 5 Likes Board Developer Level 300: Expanding Board in Your Organization

    I totally agree !

  • ShivDookhoo
    ShivDookhoo Active Partner
    Board Developer Level 300: Expanding Board in Your Organization First Anniversary First Comment

    Fully support this. What a fantastic idea!

  • Nico
    Nico Customer
    First Comment Photogenic

    Absolutely! There is a strong need for data anonimization in Board

  • Fully support this. Our work around has been to use an alternative language, that we don't use internally and load anonymous records for customer, product, etc.