STOCKHOLM and EL SEGUNDO, CALIF., Nov. 20, 2024 — Apica, the intelligent data management platform, today announced the acquisition of Orson, an innovative test data orchestration platform. This strategic acquisition strengthens Apica’s position in the DevOps marketplace by combining industry-leading synthetic monitoring capabilities with advanced test data orchestration, enabling organizations to build more robust monitoring scenarios through accelerated data variety generation.
The acquisition combines Apica’s data management expertise in synthetic monitoring and observability with Orson’s advanced test data orchestration capabilities. This integration enables teams to self-service generate comprehensive test data sets derived from production patterns while maintaining compliance with data privacy regulations like GDPR. Organizations can now create high-quality, high-cardinality test data that maintains the complexity and relationships of production data while ensuring compliance and privacy.
“This acquisition represents a significant step forward in our mission to provide enterprises with comprehensive testing and monitoring solutions,” said Ranjan Parthasarathy, CTO/CPO, at Apica. “Combining Apica’s synthetic monitoring expertise with Orson’s intelligent test data capabilities enables organizations to create more comprehensive and reliable monitoring scenarios that better reflect real-world conditions.”
Key capabilities of the combined solution include:
- Automated test coverage calculation and intelligent data generation
- Enhanced synthetic monitoring with diverse, production-like test data
- Self-service test data generation with high coverage and cardinality
- GitOps-friendly test data management integrated with CI/CD pipelines
- Reduced non-production data footprint through masked, production-sourced data
- GDPR-compliant synthetic data generation maintaining data relationships
Benefits for Organizations:
- Create more robust synthetic monitoring scenarios that catch issues before they impact production
- Reduce manual testing efforts by up to 50%
- Reduce data storage costs of non-production data by up to 50%
- Accelerate development cycles through automated test data management
- Enable continuous testing through native CI/CD pipeline integration
- Minimize data privacy risks while maintaining comprehensive test coverage
- Version-control test data specifications alongside application code
Both companies’ customers and partners will continue to receive uninterrupted support while gaining access to an expanded set of capabilities through the combined platform.
