IDERA ER/Studio Review

Great product however their delivery & licensing mechanisms are abysmal

I have been using it for the last eight years, after previously having used PowerDesigner and ERWin. It is a great product, no doubt.

Embarcadero's delivery & licensing mechanisms, however, are abysmal. Licensing servers, app distribution servers, sluggish Java apps to launch the actual tools and poor documentation of how to configure and use these requiring repeated CS calls.

This is not to mention that there are no slimline versions (read: cheaper) that could be used by smaller companies to do physical/logical modeling for a single platform. I bet this discourages many companies from adopting a design-first approach in favor of only creating data models as after-the-fact documentation on occasion with lesser tools.

Perhaps Embarcadero is not interested in anything smaller than the full enterprise market?

**Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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The interface is really simple to use and it allows me to pick and choose which tables I want to reverse engineer.
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.
It does the job.
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