erwin Evolve by Quest Reviews, Competitors and Pricing

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Data Architect at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 15, 2019

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Offers clarity about our data and is scalable with good technical support

Pros and Cons

"The initial setup was really straightforward and the deployment was done within one day."

"I would like to see an improvement in the output of the solution."

What is our primary use case?

Our primary use case for this solution is as data modeling tool.

How has it helped my organization?

Enterprise Architecture improved our organization by giving clarity over the data that is available.

What needs improvement?

I would like to see an improvement in the output of the solution.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using this solution for about 15 years now.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is very stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability is good, but so far we haven't used the shared version. We use the single stand-alone version. We have only three users, and they are all data architects. We don't use any other staff for maintenance. We also don't plan to increase our usage soon.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support is good.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was really straightforward and the deployment was done within one day.

What other advice do I have?

My advice to others would be to have this solution on your shortlist if you are looking for a data modeling tool. I will rate it an eight out of ten. I would like to some additional features, like data lineage, included in the next release to make it a ten out of ten.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

Santosh K Dash

Solution Lead at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 14, 2017

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It helped to reduce the rate of design and deployment errors and increased the ease of validation

Pros and Cons

"Support for a broad range of data sources from relational to big data to the Cloud."

"There might be improvement required to better support some of the MPP databases for non-relational data structures and NoSQL databases."

What is most valuable?

Overall model usability
Model formatting and layout
Logical model creation
Physical model creation
Forward-engineering/DDL creation
Standards creation and reuse
Model and database comparison tools
Metadata interchange with other tools
Support for a broad range of data sources from relational to big data to the Cloud.

How has it helped my organization?

The ERwin tool helped to reduce the rate of design and deployment errors and
increased the ease of validation. It also assists our customers in deploying our large data models/semantic models.

What needs improvement?

There might be improvement required to better support some of the MPP databases for non-relational data structures and NoSQL databases.

For how long have I used the solution?

More than five years.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

Did not encounter any issues.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

No issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No issues.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

Very good.

Technical Support:

Excellent.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

No.

How was the initial setup?

The ERwin setup is very simple.

What about the implementation team?

The implementation was done in-house.

What other advice do I have?

ERwin setup is very simple and straight.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

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reviewer1065615

Chief Consultant at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees

Apr 20, 2019

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Impact analysis feature enables us to easily visualize the impact of change

Pros and Cons

"The most valuable features for us are impact analysis, where I can easily visualize the impact of change."

"I feel that the UML drawing capability needs to be improved."

What is our primary use case?

Our primary use case is to develop industry models to support our consulting business.

How has it helped my organization?

This solution helped to jump start our EA (Enterprise architecture) and BPM practices.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable features for us are impact analysis, where I can easily visualize the impact of change.

What needs improvement?

I feel that the UML drawing capability needs to be improved.

EA Agile only support ArchiMate and BPMN drawing. It does not support UML notation and can only import UML drawing prepared in other platform as graph object. It'll be much better if it can suppory natively all UML notation and standard.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner.