Data Management tools to go along with our PeopleSoft applications.

Hi All.
We're looking into Data Management tools to go along with our PeopleSoft applications.
So far we have done a little looking into solutions from Informatica for Data-Archiving, Data-Subsetting, and Data-Masking.
All three appear to have pre-built PSoft solutions, and go after what we are trying to achive.
I was wondering if anybody could weigh in on the Products, or others that they have used, custom for PeopleSoft Apps (Fin & HR).
Thank you, Ed

A lot of the time PeopleTools contains a lot of features that we do not know or have forgotten and tend to use external (paid) solutions.
If you do not have a copy yet, please have a look at the following book written by Paula Dean and Jim Marion.
PeopleSoft PeopleTools Data Management and Upgrade Handbook (Oracle Press)

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