Adaptive Metadata Management vs erwin Data Literacy by Quest comparison

The Adaptive Metadata Manager™ product (V9.0) comprises a number of highly configurable software components that provide an organization with the eight core capabilities required to govern and improve virtually any data-driven business capability. These capabilities are: Data Lineage, Data Quality, Impact Analysis, Business Terminology, Business to Technical Traceability, Version Management, Change Approval Workflow, Stewardship, and Automated Harvesting & Stitching.

Built on a modern web application stack, application modules are accessed via a web browser. End-user capabilities, like business glossary lookups, are also easily integrated into desktop productivity applications (like Microsoft Office and Outlook email client) for ‘in-document’ searching.

erwin Data Literacy (erwin DL) includes business glossary management and self-service data discovery tools. The software enables organizations to curate, associate and govern data assets so all stakeholders can find data relevant to their roles and understand it within a business context. erwin DL makes collaboration, analysis and decision-making easier within the same teams and across the enterprise up to the C-level. These days we’re all data people, so the creation of such data communities, especially for business users, promotes data literacy, fluency and knowledge. Used in tandem with erwin Data Catalog (erwin DC), erwin DL provides a clear picture of the organization’s data universe, including semantic, business and technical elements.