We performed a comparison between IBM Rational System Architect, IDERA ER/Studio, and iServer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about LeanIX, Sparx Systems, erwin by Quest and others in Enterprise Architecture Management."There are a lot of features I find valuable, but I think that the metamodel customization is one of the best features that the solution offers."
"The user interface is good. It's both clear and comprehensible. It's easy to work with."
"The solution is pretty stable."
"We have seen ROI with this solution over the years that we have used it."
"The tool is simple to use."
"Using this product has improved the way we maintain our models because they have a place where we can keep all of them, and they can be viewed using the web interface."
"One of the valuable features is inheritance when joining tables. When setting up RI and domains and rules, ER/Studio does a lot of the grunt, boilerplate code that would otherwise have to be hand-coded."
"We can track changes to our data models and tie those changes back to specific tasks or efforts that we identify."
"Data lineage tracking: It allows us to identify upstream and downstream systems using data."
"Valuable features include the ability to visually represent what the database tables are going to look like and their relationships. Also, the ability to document the definitions of the tables and the columns that are in a table so that we can communicate what the data is and how it should be used."
"The data modeling and reverse engineering features are most important to us."
"The reverse engineering is the most important feature."
"Integrating the Microsoft documents to the product and visualization matrix where we can see the end-to-end relationship of the network is of great importance to our company."
"We like the governance."
"I have to think less with this solution. It's simple."
"Good and effective reporting features, which help in decision making."
"It has helped having data lineage in the business cluster, which is used as control artifacts."
"There were lots of different requirements, and collaboration and review is one of the biggest things. There is also Office 360 integration, and there's flexibility to use it as a database as well."
"Tech support is very responsive. They solved issues within a prompt response time."
"This is a flexible tool compared to some other solutions."
"There needs to be more information at the outset about how to use the solution and how to deploy it. The deployment process needs improvement."
"The reverse engineering of the database is already there, but in the next release I would like to see some pilot supplied with the solution in order to address any database."
"This solution can be more user-friendly and easier to use, with better dashboards."
"The solution needs to better integrate with other products, like Microsoft."
"Sometimes our version is a little unstable. But I think this problem occurs because our version is old."
"They allow functionalities to be released before the full tests for catching and correcting errors are completed."
"I would like to see better documentation/help for the Data Architect tool. Creation of tutorials would be nice, as there are some features which are not as clearly defined as they should be."
"It isn't easy to compare the thousands of tables in the model against the database. The tool should improve the synchronization within the large organization"
"The solution could be sped up, as it is a little slow (e.g., when it's doing its database compare)."
"The number of options can be overwhelming at times. That is not necessarily a bad thing but for a newbie, it can be daunting."
"What I would like to see improved is the reliability of the releases, releases that are a little less buggy."
"The model diagram because very clumsy when you save it on the team server and the models are very big."
"There are other solutions out there that have a better user interface."
"The one issue is that if you want to import predefined work, you need to put the licensing model in. So if you wanted to import work that was done before, you then need to buy a separate product for that."
"I haven't used this solution long enough to know what areas could be improved."
"Cannot see which activities are control activities."
"There could be features for process mining, process simulation, and analytics."
"It runs relatively slowly."
"There can be some performance issues using the solution that should be improved. When you make modifications modify to files there are embedded data within that can take a while to process."
"More visualization techniques and ways to report the data might be helpful."
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